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Create delivery resources
Draft and update pipelines, services, environments, infrastructure definitions, connectors, templates, variables, inputs, and triggers.
Harness software delivery
CategoryCloud & DevOps
Codex Skills for Harness
Codex Skills for Harness help Codex create and review Harness pipelines, services, environments, connectors, templates, policies, feature flags, cloud-cost workflows, and execution diagnostics. Download the skills for natural-language work with the Harness platform through approved repositories, APIs, and MCP tools.
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task: complete harness software delivery task
inspect:
- requirements and context
- existing standards
- failure and edge cases
verify: outputs + checks + handoffWhy a specialist workflow matters
A delivery pipeline is difficult to trust when account scope, connectors, expressions, service definitions, environments, approvals, and rollback behavior are edited without a shared model.
Harness resources are connected across account, organization, and project scopes. Reliable work depends on current schemas, permissions, identifiers, variables, connectors, and platform modules.
These skills guide Codex to discover the live resource shape through approved Harness tooling, produce reviewable YAML or API changes, and protect credentials and production stages.
What the downloadable skills can do
What Codex Skills for Harness can help accomplish
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Debug failed executions
Inspect stages, steps, logs, expressions, service instances, manifests, delegates, connectors, policies, and failure strategies.
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Improve governance and reuse
Build templates, policies, approvals, overrides, access boundaries, naming standards, and controlled promotion paths.
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Analyze delivery operations
Summarize executions, deployment health, feature-flag usage, cloud costs, anomalies, and platform data available through authorized tools.
A repeatable working process
How the harness software delivery workflow moves from request to verified result
The steps keep context, implementation, and verification visible so the result can be reviewed and repeated.
workflow.statusREADY
Context → Plan → Work → Verify
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Resolve scope and access
Identify the Harness account, organization, project, module, environment, resource identifiers, permissions, delegates, and approved connectors.
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Discover current resource schemas
Use supplied repository files or Harness describe and list operations instead of assuming fields from memory.
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Prepare the smallest safe change
Create or edit the requested YAML or resource, preserve expressions and scope, protect secrets, and show the intended effect.
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Validate before execution
Run available validation, inspect resolved inputs and policy checks, require approval for controlled stages, and define rollback or failure handling.
Useful across real projects
Where Codex Skills for Harness fit
The workflow adjusts to the project, audience, tools, and risk while preserving the same quality standard.
CI and CD pipelines
Build, test, scan, package, deploy, verify, approve, and promote software through reusable pipeline stages.
Platform resources
Manage services, environments, infrastructure, connectors, delegates, secrets references, templates, and inputs.
Execution diagnostics
Trace failed steps, logs, expressions, manifests, connector access, delegates, timeouts, policy failures, and rollback.
Governance and reporting
Apply policies, approvals, access rules, templates, feature controls, cost views, and delivery reporting.
Common requests
Tasks these skills can handle
Start with one defined outcome and provide the source material, constraints, and checks that matter.
01Create a Harness pipeline
02Define a service and environment
03Build a reusable template
04Debug a failed execution
05Fix an expression or input
06Configure approvals and failure strategies
07Analyze deployment activity
08Review cloud-cost information
Who benefits most
Who Is This For?
These skills are designed for people who need dependable harness software delivery work with a visible process.
Harness platform teams
Standardize resources, templates, connectors, policies, access, and shared delivery practices.
DevOps engineers
Create and debug pipelines, deployments, triggers, variables, manifests, and verification steps.
Application teams
Use approved delivery paths and understand the inputs, environments, and evidence associated with a release.
FinOps and governance teams
Work with available cost, policy, approval, feature, and deployment data through controlled tools.
Good to know:
The skills require authorized Harness access for live actions. API keys, secrets, connectors, production executions, approvals, policies, feature changes, and cost decisions remain controlled by the user's permissions and review process.
Set up the workflow
Installation Guide
Install the complete skill folder and add the project-specific context before beginning.
Download and extract the Harness skills
Keep SKILL.md with pipeline, resource, debugging, governance, and reporting workflows.
Choose project or personal scope
Use project scope for repository and Harness identifiers, or personal scope for reusable platform practices.
Connect approved Harness tooling
Configure the supported Harness MCP server or API access with least-privilege credentials outside the skill files.
Record account boundaries
Provide account, organization, project, modules, resource identifiers, delegates, environments, policies, and protected stages.
Before you download
Frequently Asked Questions
Practical answers about capabilities, limits, setup, and review.
Can the skills create Harness pipeline YAML?+
Yes. They can draft and modify pipeline resources while following current schemas discovered from the repository or Harness tooling.
Do they require the Harness MCP server?+
Live discovery and actions require an approved MCP or API connection. The skills can still review supplied YAML without one.
Can they debug pipeline executions?+
Yes, when logs and resource context are available through authorized access or supplied artifacts.
Will they expose API keys or secrets?+
They are designed to reference protected credentials rather than place secret values in skill files, prompts, logs, or committed YAML.
Can they run a production deployment?+
Only with explicit authorization, suitable permissions, required approvals, validation, monitoring, and a defined failure or rollback strategy.
Make the work repeatable
Give Codex a Harness workflow grounded in live schemas, controlled access, reusable delivery resources, and verifiable executions.
Clear context. Purposeful work. Relevant checks. A result others can understand.