Developer tool
Lintel Harness
A harness template generator for agentic projects, from Lintel. On npm, and useful the moment you start a new one.
What it is
Every agentic project needs a scaffolding before real work starts: agent roles, agent teams, a working process with its document templates, behavioural guidelines, folder structure, and the small skills that keep it running. The usual way to share that scaffolding is copy-pasted folders, which are fast to apply once and impossible to update as they drift. Lintel Harness swaps that copy-paste for a managed apply: it writes the files into your project and keeps a small manifest of what it wrote, so it can update the project later cleanly, as a checked fact rather than a guess.
It's a Claude setup today, with an LLM-agnostic version coming. That's the honest current state; the direction is to make the same way of working sit on whichever model you're using.
What's in it
Coding pack
A complete way of working for projects that build software with agents. Roles, agent teams, a working process, document templates, and the small skills a coding project keeps reaching for.
Planning pack
A way of working for projects whose output is a plan: a strategy, a roadmap, a proposal. Roles, agent teams, process, templates, and the guidelines that keep the reasoning honest.
Writing pack
A way of working for projects that produce prose. Roles, agent teams, process, templates, and the guidelines that keep the work on track. Init captures the author's voice up front, so what the agents write actually sounds like the author.
More packs coming
Presentations and infrastructure are the next two we're working on. They're not shipped yet; when they are, they'll show up on npm alongside the others.
Install
Install the Lintel CLI globally, then run init to apply a pack to a project. Init is interactive: it asks for the project name, a one-line description, and, for the writing pack, the author's voice.
npm i -g @linteldk/clilintel harness init writingTry it
The CLI is on npm. Have a go, and tell us what breaks. If you're running real agentic projects, we'd like to hear how the harness holds up.