v0.8.0 — skill-distillation gate

What's new

• Skill-distillation gate — at task close-out, the implementer judges (from the finished task's brief/phases, spec, and diff) whether it established a reusable, generalisable procedure future tasks will repeat — e.g. "add an API endpoint end-to-end", "wire a new drag-drop group". Conservatively: most tasks yield nothing, and it proposes only a high-value candidate. If there is one, it names it, explains when it's used and what it covers, and asks whether to distil it. On your yes it writes a tool-agnostic .harness/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (name + when-to-use trigger + numbered steps + links).
  • Skills are team-shared (committed), never overwritten by harness upgrade, and read back by future sessions — the coordinator and implementer list .harness/skills/ on startup and apply a matching skill.
  • New harness skills lists the library. New [skills] distill = "auto" | "off" gate (default auto).
  • This captures reusable procedures, distinct from MEMORY.md (facts/conventions) and docs/ARCHITECTURE.md (the change-X→which-files map).

Compatibility

Backward-compatible. .harness/skills/ starts empty and the gate stays silent until a task genuinely warrants a skill. Existing projects: harness upgrade picks up the new gate/templates and creates the empty .harness/skills/ dir; your work is untouched.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Libr-AI/CommonHarness/v0.8.0/install.sh | bash