How do I install the Cloud Harness skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add frankxai/cloud-harness in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

What does the Cloud Harness skill do?

Use during /architect-cloud. Compare clouds and agent harnesses with evidence. Never provision, never crown a vendor without a price row or a file in the repo. It is listed under DevOps & Infra on SkillMD.

Is Cloud Harness safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. Capability flags: docs only. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Cloud Harness?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Cloud Harness free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free, and the skill stays under its author's original license.

Who published Cloud Harness?

frankxai (@frankxai) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Cloud Harness by frankxai — Agent Skill

Name: Cloud Harness
Rating: 4.666666666666667 (3 reviews)
Author: frankxai

File contents

Cloud and harness choice

This skill is an overlay. It does not add a WORKFLOW.md stage.

Rule

A cloud or harness is MADE only with:

a file in this repository (vercel.json, railway.toml, IaC, Dockerfile), or
a prices.json row with source_url and retrieved_at

Otherwise OPEN, with a dated deferral cost. [unknown] beats a slogan.

Clouds to consider (not a ranking)

AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex, Vercel, Railway, plus any regional generative-AI API the repo already uses. Ask region, who holds keys, data residency, spend gate, rollback.

How this team is provided to people

path	for	mechanism
Claude Code plugin	interactive lifecycle	`/plugin marketplace add` then `/architect`
skills.sh pack	one-skill install	`skills/ai-architect/SKILL.md`
Conductor CLI	Codex / any CLI	`node scripts/architect-conductor.mjs card`
MCP stdio	Hermes and other MCP hosts	`mcp/server.mjs` local only
AGENTS.md block	Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf	`install-cross-harness.mjs --agents-md`

Do not stand up a hosted architect agent. Customer keys stay with the customer.

Human gates

provision, spend, dns, credentials remain operator actions.

Frequently asked questions

Cloud Harness