Gan Style Harness

# GAN-Style Harness Skill

> Inspired by [Anthropic's Harness Design for Long-Running Application Development](https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-running-apps) (March 24, 2026)

A multi-agent harness that separates **generation** from **evaluation**, creating an adversarial feedback loop that drives quality far beyond what a single agent can achieve.

## Core Insight

> When asked to evaluate their own work, agents are pathological optimists — they praise mediocre output and talk themselves out of legitimate issues. But engineering a **separate evaluator** to be ruthlessly strict is far more tractable than teaching a generator to self-critique.

This is the same dynamic as GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks): the Generator produces, the Evaluator critiques, and that feedback drives the next iteration.

## When to Use

- Building complete applications from a one-line prompt
- Frontend design tasks requiring high visual quality
- Full-stack projects that need working features, not just code
- Any task where "AI slop" aesthetics are unacceptable
- Projects where you want to invest $50-200 for production-quality output

## When NOT to Use

- Quick single-file fixes (use standard `claude -p`)
- Tasks with tight budget constraints (<$10)
- Simple refactoring (use de-sloppify pattern instead)
- Tasks that are already well-specified with tests (use TDD workflow)

## Architecture