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Documents the agent layer: the harnesses under test, how a harness is chosen independently
of the model it drives, and the capability surface a harness grants an agent.

  • docs/components/agents.md — the registered harnesses, harness vs model, and the
    AGENT_* / BENCH_* configuration.
  • docs/how-to/add-an-agent-harness.md — the steps to plug in a new harness.
  • .agents/references/harness-capabilities.md — the shared capability map. This is the
    reference the review and cleanup skills consult, so it unblocks those units.

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The harness table listed three harnesses. Four register here, so a row for antigravity
(the agy binary) was added, describing how it actually runs: a headless subprocess that
preserves the real HOME for cached OAuth/ADC credentials, with the trajectory parsed from
the transcript JSONL it writes and token usage read from the conversation DB. The other two
files are unchanged.

Verified rather than assumed: the four documented keys match the @AGENTS.register
decorators, gemini-cli really is an alias for gemini and the default agent type
(_AGENT_TYPE_ALIASES in devops_bench/evalharness/default.py), and every AGENT_* /
BENCH_* variable named is read somewhere in devops_bench/.

docs/components/agents.md links to model_providers.md, added by #50, so this reads best
merged after it.

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  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on the agent harness architecture, execution flow, supported harnesses, configuration, capabilities, and usage.
    • Added a step-by-step guide for creating, registering, configuring, and testing custom agent harnesses.
    • Documented capability mappings, shell-based fallbacks, graceful degradation, error handling, trajectory parsing, and resumable execution state.
    • Clarified provider and credential requirements for Antigravity, including its Gemini-only mapping and credential access boundaries.

Documents the agent layer: the harnesses under test, how a harness is chosen
independently of the model it drives, and the capability surface a harness
grants an agent.

- docs/components/agents.md — the registered harnesses, harness vs model, and
  the AGENT_* / BENCH_* configuration.
- docs/how-to/add-an-agent-harness.md — the steps to plug in a new harness.
- .agents/references/harness-capabilities.md — the shared capability map that
  the review and cleanup skills consult.

The harness table adds a row for the antigravity harness, which registers under
that key here but was absent from the table.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>
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Added documentation for the agent harness model, capability mappings, supported configurations, custom harness registration, execution contracts, and infrastructure-free testing.

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Agent harness documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Harness concepts and capabilities
.agents/references/harness-capabilities.md, docs/components/agents.md
Documents harness execution, supported harnesses, configuration, capability controls, provider mapping, credential boundaries, and durable state.
Custom harness contract
docs/how-to/add-an-agent-harness.md
Documents the _execute contract, capability bindings, registration, module loading, shared CLI helpers, and runtime selection.
Implementation skeleton and validation
docs/how-to/add-an-agent-harness.md
Provides a registered harness skeleton and documents infrastructure-free testing and expected result fields.

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This documentation adds harness guidance, including an Antigravity mode that preserves the real HOME and a copyable harness template. The current text leaves the credential and home-data exposure boundary unstated, omits Antigravity from shared provider-routing guidance, and has a template import error; these are bounded follow-up risks requiring owner awareness but do not make the change unsafe to merge.

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gracefully when a capability is absent** — every row has a generic fallback that
works on a bare harness with nothing but a shell.

| Capability | Claude Code | Antigravity | Codex | Generic fallback |

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We don't have Codex support currently right? Should this be added later?

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Correct that there is no Codex agent in the AGENTS registry, but this table is about a different thing: which coding assistant is driving the skills, not which agent is under test. Claude Code and Antigravity are not registered agents either.

Your instinct about the column is right though. The Antigravity row was confirmed against a live instance and the Claude Code row came from a real portability table, but the Codex cells were inferred from documented behaviour and never verified. I have marked them unverified rather than dropping the column, since every row has a generic fallback and partial orientation still beats none. Happy to drop it entirely if you would rather not carry unverified guidance.

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I would suggest dropping it if we are unsure.

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Dropped. codex appeared in exactly one file in the repo, and the cells were inferred rather than verified, so there is nothing lost by removing it.

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```bash
export BENCH_AGENT_TYPE=myagent
export BENCH_NO_INFRA=true
export AGENT_PROVIDER=...

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Lets keep it consistent. Either substitute this with myProvider or add substitute ... in agent_type as well.

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Fixed, the block now uses myprovider and mymodel alongside myagent so it reads as one coherent example.

- The smoke-test block mixed a concrete BENCH_AGENT_TYPE with elided provider
  and model values; use concrete stand-ins throughout so the example reads as
  one coherent thing.
- Mark the Codex column unverified. The Antigravity row was confirmed against a
  live instance and the Claude Code row came from a real portability table, but
  the Codex cells were inferred from documented behaviour and never checked. A
  capability map is only useful if its confidence is visible, and every row has
  a generic fallback anyway.

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gracefully when a capability is absent** — every row has a generic fallback that
works on a bare harness with nothing but a shell.

| Capability | Claude Code | Antigravity | Codex | Generic fallback |

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I would suggest dropping it if we are unsure.

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| You do | Where |
| --- | --- |
| Subclass `AgentHarness` | `devops_bench/agents/base.py` |
| Implement `_execute(self, prompt) -> AgentResult` | your new module |

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Missing workspace_path parameter

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Good catch, updated.

| **Ask the operator** | `AskUserQuestion` | `ask_question` | prompt the user | ask in chat |
| **Heartbeat / keepalive** | progress line, no early "done" | progress line, no early "done" | periodic re-check + status line | print a `still working: …` line each tick |

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I suggest removing the entire Notes section. It looks like it snuck on somehow and feels out of place in a skill.

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Agreed, removed. I kept one line by folding it into the body: that the runner host holds durable run state under RESUME_STAMP, so a bare harness with nothing but a shell can still drive and re-attach to a run. That is what makes the generic fallback column meaningful rather than aspirational. Happy to drop that too if you would rather the file were just the table.

Two reviewers agreed the Codex column should go rather than ship unverified.
The word appeared in exactly one file in the repo and the cells were inferred
from documented behaviour rather than checked against a live instance, so there
was nothing to lose by removing it.

The notes section goes with it. The Antigravity tool inventory would stale the
moment that tool changes, and the provenance note only existed to caveat Codex.
One point is kept, folded into the body: the runner host holds durable run
state under RESUME_STAMP, so a bare harness with nothing but a shell can drive
and re-attach to a run. That is what makes the generic fallback column
meaningful rather than aspirational.

Also corrects the contract row for the harness interface. The abstract method
is _execute(self, prompt, workspace_path=None) and run() calls it positionally,
so a harness written to the two argument signature the doc showed would raise
TypeError on first use, which the base class converts into an errored result
rather than surfacing as a signature mismatch.

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Disambiguate the harness layer.

docs/components/agents.md defines an agent harness as the system under test, but this table lists tools used by the skill runner, such as Claude Code and Antigravity. State that distinction here, or use a term such as “driver” for this table. Otherwise, readers can mistake these names for registered AgentHarness keys.

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In @.agents/references/harness-capabilities.md around lines 3 - 13, Clarify the
terminology in the harness capability mapping table by distinguishing the
skill-runner tool layer from the agent harness system under test. Update the
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Antigravity as drivers (or equivalent), and ensure the wording does not imply
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In `@docs/components/agents.md`:
- Line 27: Update the antigravity entry in the agents documentation to
explicitly warn that preserving the real HOME exposes cached credentials and
other home-directory data when the subprocess or its tools can read local files,
and require an isolated HOME or dedicated account for untrusted agents.
- Around line 48-50: Update the provider-routing documentation around the CLI
harness mapping to explicitly identify Antigravity as a Gemini-only exception:
it hardcodes AGENT_API_KEY to Gemini-specific environment variables and passes
the model through GEMINI_MODEL. Do not imply that Antigravity follows the shared
provider contract.

In `@docs/how-to/add-an-agent-harness.md`:
- Around line 44-46: Update the `_execute` signature in both the implementation
guidance and skeleton to accept `workspace_path=None` alongside `prompt`,
returning `AgentResult`, so copied harnesses remain compatible with the base
`run()` contract.
- Around line 3-5: Update the introduction to describe the “built-in import
list” using the hyphenated wording, without changing the surrounding technical
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In @.agents/references/harness-capabilities.md:
- Around line 3-13: Clarify the terminology in the harness capability mapping
table by distinguishing the skill-runner tool layer from the agent harness
system under test. Update the surrounding introduction or table heading to
identify Claude Code and Antigravity as drivers (or equivalent), and ensure the
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…igravity caveats

The _execute signature was corrected in the contract table but not in the
implementation section or the skeleton, and the skeleton is what gets copied. A
harness written from it takes two arguments while run() calls it positionally
with three, so it raises TypeError on first use and the base class turns that
into an errored result rather than an obvious mismatch. Both now match, and the
text says the parameter is required even when unused.

Two things about antigravity were understated. It does not use the shared
provider contract: it writes AGENT_API_KEY onto GEMINI_API_KEY and
GOOGLE_API_KEY and maps the model onto GEMINI_MODEL, so it is Gemini-only and
pointing AGENT_PROVIDER elsewhere will not route it. And keeping the real HOME
was described only as a convenience for cached credentials, when it also means
the agent under test can read anything in that home directory, unlike every
other harness which gets an isolated per-run state dir.

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| Variable | Default | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `BENCH_USE_MCP` | `true` | Master gate. `false` drops the MCP binding entirely. |
| `AGENT_MCP_SERVER` | unset | Shell-quoted argv for the MCP server (e.g. `"uv run gke-mcp"`). |

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Use a vendor-neutral example for the generic capability setting.

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| `AGENT_MCP_SERVER` | unset | Shell-quoted argv for the MCP server (e.g. `"uv run gke-mcp"`). |
| `AGENT_MCP_SERVER` | unset | Shell-quoted argv for the MCP server (e.g. `"uv run k8s-mcp"`). |

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export AGENT_TARGET=gemini

export BENCH_USE_MCP=true
export AGENT_MCP_SERVER="uv run gke-mcp"

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Use a provider-neutral MCP server example in the generic component documentation.

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export BENCH_USE_MCP=true
export AGENT_MCP_SERVER="uv run gke-mcp"
export AGENT_ALLOWED_TOOLS="list_clusters,get_pods"
export AGENT_SKILLS_PATHS="/opt/skills/gke,/opt/skills/k8s"

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Use provider-neutral directory paths for the example skills path.

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export AGENT_SKILLS_PATHS="/opt/skills/gke,/opt/skills/k8s"
export AGENT_SKILLS_PATHS="/opt/skills/devops,/opt/skills/k8s"

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Done

Per review. The MCP server example named gke-mcp and the skills path example
pointed at /opt/skills/gke, both in generic component documentation where the
vendor-neutrality rule applies. Replaced with k8s-mcp and /opt/skills/devops.

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* Add the review skills, their repo map, and the permission profiles

Migrates task-review and devops-bench-review, plus the two docs they read as
source of truth (architecture.md, glossary.md) and the sample permission
profiles a reviewer runs under.

architecture.md and glossary.md are nominally in the final docs unit, but
devops-bench-review opens by telling the reviewer to read them instead of
reconstructing the layering from memory. Landing the skill without them would
ship that instruction pointing at nothing, and neither doc depends on anything
that has not migrated.

Adapted rather than copied. Every registry, symbol, and lifecycle step in
architecture.md was checked against the code here. glossary.md drops site/,
which this repo does not have, notes that top-level deployers/, skills/, and
scripts/ are placeholder READMEs rather than live code, and lists the boolean
compound verifier nodes (all/any/none) alongside sequence and parallel.
devops-bench-review loses its "ignore legacy pkg/" line, since there is no
pkg/ here, and gains the placeholder-directory note in its place.

architecture.md's "records share a symmetric key set" now says explicitly that
this holds for top-level fields only. The nested scores map is not symmetric,
because each metric is gated by its own applies().

This depends on #51, #52 and #63 for six links (add-a-task.md,
add-an-agent-harness.md, harness-capabilities.md, known_issues.md). Held until
those merge.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Add a vendor-neutrality lens to the review skill

Janet asked for closer attention to vendor neutrality on reviews. The
.coderabbit.yaml rule added for it reliably catches literal GKE/GCP strings and
little else, so the structural violations are still landing: a generic layer
resolving GCP_PROJECT_ID, an error message raised from core/ that names a
provider, a neutral parameter defaulting to one, a public field named for one.

The lens names the generic-versus-provider boundary explicitly, since that is
what decides every call, and lists the five surfaces in the order they slip
through. It also says what NOT to flag, because over-flagging trains authors to
ignore the lens, and it requires the neutral replacement rather than just an
objection.

Marked as not optional in the lens-selection guidance so it runs on every
change touching devops_bench/ or docs/, which also makes it usable as an
author's own first pass before opening a PR.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Drop the sample permission profiles from the review skills

Per review: these are hard to maintain and everyone's risk appetite and
runtime environment differ, so shipping four tool-specific JSON files invites
rot and false confidence. Nothing linked them, so removing the directory leaves
no dangling references.

The guidance they encoded already lives in each skill's review-only guardrails,
which name what may and must not run in tool-neutral terms. Those lists now say
explicitly that they are the shape of a permission profile for anyone who wants
their tool to enforce the boundary, while being clear that the exact syntax and
the right allowlist depend on where you run.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Address review on the review skills

- Use <pr> rather than <t> for the placeholder in the gather-the-diff commands.
- Give the Chaos and Verification glossary tables the same "Where it lives"
  column the core-components table already has, so every term points at the
  module that owns it. Paths verified against the tree.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Correct three stale claims and tighten the review checklists

The node service account is no longer a parallel-safety blocker.
tf/modules/cluster/gke builds account_id as gke-nodes-<slug>-<md5 of the full
cluster name>, so clusters whose names collide after slug truncation still get
distinct accounts. The checklist told reviewers to block multi-cluster GKE
tasks over this, which would have rejected valid tasks.

The placeholder list named {{GKE_CLUSTER_NAME}}, which the harness does not
substitute, and omitted {{APP_LOCATION}}, which it does. It now matches the
supported set exactly.

The parallel-safety example pointed at the secret-rotation stack, which is not
in this repo, so it described the pattern instead of naming a task.

Also from review: a destroy-time sweep must filter on the run's own token or it
deletes a sibling run's resources mid-run; the name-length check should look at
the resolved name rather than the raw sum, since RunEnv already clamps and the
run token is the prefix; untrusted values reaching a shell must be argv-style
rather than validated-then-interpolated; the lens count was stale after vendor
neutrality; deployers go through a factory rather than a registry; and two
generic docs named gcloud where the vendor-neutrality rule this PR adds says
they should not.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Drop the secret-rotation example from the task-review description

Same reason as the checklist reference: that task is not in this repo, so an
invocation example naming it cannot be followed.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Name the ref the review workflow reads enclosing code from

The gather step told a reviewer to fall back to git show <ref>:<path> without
ever defining <ref>, which is the common case since a review usually starts
from main rather than the PR branch. The command now requests headRefOid with
the other fields, and the fallback offers gh pr checkout or git show against
that oid, noting the fetch that has to happen first for the object to exist
locally.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Split the run-scoping guidance by who destroys the resource

The item treated a random_id suffix and var.cluster_name as interchangeable
ways to scope a name. They are not, and item 2 two lines below already implied
as much: a sweep has to identify which run owns a resource, and a random suffix
is not selectable.

Terraform-managed resources can use random_id, since tofu destroy knows what it
owns. Anything a teardown sweep removes must carry var.cluster_name or an
equivalent ownership label, or the sweep cannot pick it out without risking a
sibling run's resources. That is the leaked-AR-repo failure mode the next item
warns about, so the two now agree.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Write the vendor-neutrality carve-outs as patterns, not instances

The neutrality lens named one cloud where it meant any cloud, and three
sources of the same rule disagreed about which paths it exempts.

Four changes, all wording:

Carve-outs are patterns. The provider-scoped column said `tasks/gcp/**`. The
day `tasks/aws/` lands that silently stops covering it, and the reviewer
either flags a legitimately AWS-shaped task or guesses. Now
`tasks/<provider>/**`, with a line saying to write the pattern.

The table mixed two roots in one row. Every entry in the generic column is a
`devops_bench/` subpackage, so `tasks/` there reads as the schema package --
but `tasks/gcp/**` on the right is the on-disk task tree at the repo root.
Same word, two roots. Spelled out above the table.

Cloud provider and model provider are different axes. `agents/` and `models/`
sat in the generic column with no carve-out for their per-vendor subtrees, so
the lens applied literally flags `models/gemini.py` for being the google-genai
adapter and `models/claude.py` for reading GCP_PROJECT_ID -- which it does
because Vertex genuinely needs a project id. glossary.md already draws this
distinction; the lens now does too, and the per-vendor subtrees are exempt.
This matters because the section's own closing line is that over-flagging
trains authors to ignore the lens.

The 40-char cluster-name cap is the framework's, not GKE's. It is
`_MAX_CLUSTER_NAME` in `core/run_env.py`, a generic-layer constant whose value
happens to come from the tightest provider limit. Describing it as "GKE's 40
chars" makes a framework invariant look provider-owned. Also "the kind/gcp
resolver" -> "the provider resolver" and "kind vs GKE" -> "kind vs a cloud
provider", both of which go stale on the next provider.

AGENTS.md and .coderabbit.yaml carry the same carve-outs, so the human lens,
the contributor guide, and the bot agree on one boundary instead of three.
AGENTS.md is also what CodeRabbit loads as its knowledge base.

No rule is loosened for the cloud axis: a generic layer reading a cloud
env var, a vendor string in an error message, or a provider-shaped default
is still a finding.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Drop the stale gke_cluster_name/--gcp-project neutrality example

GKE_CLUSTER_NAME is a real provider-layer env var the generic runner
deliberately ignores (test_from_env_ignores_provider_specific_names),
and the CLI flag has been --project since cli.py:49 -- so the pair read
as live violations when neither is one. Point the bullet at the neutral
surface that exists instead.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Correct the truncation failure mode and widen the bot's generic-layer list

The name-length bullet said the run token is the prefix and then treated a
truncated suffix as the collision case. run_env.py:244 clamps
f"{cluster_token}-{base}" from the right, so the base suffix is what goes and
the discriminator survives; rewriting the prefix is the unsafe case. Anchored
to the gke node-SA slug, which slices from position 0 and hashes the full name.

The .coderabbit.yaml generic-layer list was a strict subset of the skill's
generic column, leaving verification, chaos, results and k8s without bot
coverage. Also reworded the claim about what that rule catches in practice,
and added ollama to the model-provider axis in AGENTS.md.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

* Correct the stack-variable and RunEnv-isolation claims

A stack variable the provider resolver does not populate is not a red
flag: deployers/factory.py:138 passes the task's infrastructure.variables
through, and TFDeployer._var_flags forwards any key the stack declares,
raising ConfigError only when the stack declares nothing. The old wording
would have reviewers flag a working pattern -- the same one that fixes
the {{NAMESPACE}} resolution bug.

RunEnv sets KUBECONFIG, CLOUDSDK_CONFIG, TF_DATA_DIR and the cluster name
directly; OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR and the chaos port-forward port are derived
downstream from BENCH_RUN_DIR / BENCH_PARALLEL. Both are still unsafe to
pin, but they are verified at the consumer, not in run_env.py.

Also states that the permitted commands run from the project root.

Signed-off-by: Jessie Liu <jssl@google.com>

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