HarnessTap CLI documentation

HarnessTap is an agent harness configuration toolkit for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other coding CLIs. Scan existing setup, store canonical resources, compose layers, and materialize into any supported harness.

Start here

• Getting started — install, first apply, scan and publish workflow
• Concepts — architecture and the HarnessTap data model
• Command reference — full CLI surface, flags, and aliases

Guides

• Scenarios — numbered workflow playbooks
• Supported harnesses — harness matrix and resource types
• Portability limits — what transfers across harnesses
• Interactive UX — keyboard reference for TTY browse prompts
• HarnessTap Cloud — authenticate, search, pull, and publish shared layers

Quick links

ht init --main codex --aliases claude-code,cursor
ht layer list --search foundation --remote-only
ht layer apply engineering-foundation
ht status .

Use ht as shorthand for harnesstap. For automation, prefer --format json on reporting commands.