Be Ambitious Harness

Harness for ambitious AI task statements. Use when the user writes /be-ambitious, "make this task deeper", "improve the task statement", "raise the bar", "strengthen the prompt" (or in Russian «сделай задачу глубже», «улучши постановку», «поставь амбициознее», «усили промпт») — or before launching any substantial task worth raising the bar on. Routes the task by scenario (design, data, code, writing, decision, generic), runs the analysis, builds a prompt with a gate check, hands it to a worker, runs an independent verifier. Not needed for five-minute tasks.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add alexpiar/be-ambitious-harness --skill be-ambitious-harness

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexpiar/be-ambitious-harness.git /tmp/be-ambitious-harness
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/be-ambitious-harness/. ~/.claude/skills/be-ambitious-harness

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Be-Ambitious Harness

Three roles and one human. **Planner** turns the task into a prompt with two bars and a gate check. **Worker** executes the prompt, starting with the check. **Verifier** grades the result seeing only the goal, requirements, criteria and facts. **Human** chooses the scheme and cost limit — this is not delegated.

Each role reads only its own files. This is deliberate: instruction following breaks down past 5–6 simultaneous constraints, so structure comes from files and templates, not from rules held in mind.

## Flow

**0. Intake.** Collect four fields: `task`, `context`, `mode` (keep scope / ambitious extension / recommend), `stop_after_analysis` (yes/no). Defaults if empty: recommend, no.

**1. Routing.** Open `scenarios/_index.md`, pick a scenario by signals. Torn between two — take the one where the result lives. None fits — `generic.md`.

**2. Analysis and prompt.** Read `agents/planner.md` and the scenario file. Run the analysis; scenario hints serve their matching points, not all at once. Output questions and the prompt per `core/prompt-template.md`. With `stop_after_analysis = yes`, stop after analysis and questions; continue only after the human answers.

**3. Pre-flight check.** Run the prompt through `checklists/pre-flight.md`. Any "no" — back to step 2.

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Details

Skill name: be-ambitious-harness
Repository: alexpiar/be-ambitious-harness
License: MIT
Repo updated: 25 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Be Ambitious Harness skill do?

How do I install the Be Ambitious Harness skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add alexpiar/be-ambitious-harness --skill be-ambitious-harness. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Be Ambitious Harness popular?

It lives in alexpiar/be-ambitious-harness, which has 23 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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