Meta-Prompt (Global Harness Evolution)

What it does

Meta-Prompt is a meta-skill that ingests signals—external articles, user observations, ideas, or agent failure reports—and runs a structured loop to evolve the global agent harness (~/.claude). It extracts actionable insights, compares them against existing rules and skills, proposes gap-filling changes, and measures an 'absorption rate' for applied improvements. The skill is procedural and prescriptive, designed to keep global behavior aligned with real-world inputs.

When to use it

Use when you have an external reference (URL), a systemic problem across skills, or ideas for harness-wide improvements. Do NOT use this for single-project harness changes; delegate those to a project-level harness-engineering workflow.

What's included

• Scripts: procedural phases and directory conventions for resuming work (.claude/meta-prompt/), though no external scripts are required to run the loop
• References: phase-by-phase templates (Signal Triage, Extract, Compare, Apply, Measure) with gating and AskUserQuestion points
• Instructions: clear tables and formats to structure insights, mapping, and application plans; reviewer gates before making changes.

Compatible agents

Designed for agents that can read repository SKILL.md files and edit harness files or create tasks for subordinate skills (harness-engineering, my-skill-creator). Works well where agent tooling supports WebFetch, recall, and file edits.