20 Design Harness alternatives
Design Harness: A decision board for contested calls: feed your agent papers and half-formed ideas, and it files them into a traceable sources → ideas → output structure you can defend, with a visual canvas over the markdown. 20 agent skills do similar work, most sharing Research and Literature Review, ranked by how much they have in common with Design Harness.
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by Bo
Multi-source academic literature search as an agent skill — OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, PubMed and arXiv at four depths, from a 5-minute scan to a PRISMA-S logged systematic review.
Also: Literature Review, Research
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by Cheng-I Wu
A four-skill bundle that runs the academic pipeline end to end — deep research, paper writing, peer review and revision — as multi-agent workflows inside Claude Code.
Also: Literature Review, Research
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by Oldcircle
Find where a photo was taken: EXIF, OCR, OpenStreetMap, skyline and satellite matching, with coordinates, error radius and evidence images.
Also: Research
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by Tencent
Tencent's skill-evolution harness: it rewrites a whole skill folder — SKILL.md, scripts and references together — and lands every decision as a real Git issue, PR and wiki entry you can review.
Also: Research
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by SerpApi
SerpApi's official skill for structured search: which of 130+ engines to call for citations, local businesses, flights, hotels, shopping or jobs, which response key holds the answer, and the gotchas that silently return the wrong field.
Also: Research
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by Anthropic
Anthropic's official skill that appends 2-3 targeted follow-up questions to a substantive answer, prompting the reader to check facts, probe assumptions and spot missing context.
Also: Research
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by NVIDIA
Turns a plain-language weather question into a working Earth2Studio inference script — picks the AI forecast model, a compatible data source, an IO backend, and the step count.
Also: Research
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by Brave
Brave's official skill for the Brave Search API — ranked web results with snippets and thumbnails, freshness and SafeSearch filters, search operators, pagination, and Goggles for custom ranking.
Also: Research
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by Brave
Brave's official search skill: one CLI that searches, scrapes and extracts in a single call, returning token-budgeted web content instead of a list of links.
Also: Research
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by Hugging Face
Read-only recipes for the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API — resolve splits, paginate rows, run text search and row filters, and pull parquet URLs and column statistics.
Also: Research
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by AMD
AMD's official meta-skill: permanently reroutes an agent's image generation, text-to-speech and speech-to-text to a local Lemonade Server instead of a paid cloud API.
Also in Development
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by Microsoft
Microsoft's official Playwright skill — drives a real browser from the command line using accessibility snapshots and element refs, and plans, generates and heals Playwright tests.
Also in Development
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by Google Maps Platform
Google's official agent skill for writing production Maps Platform code — grounded in freshly fetched docs, with a demo key path that needs no billing account.
Also in Development
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by NVIDIA
Diagnoses wrong gradients in differentiable NVIDIA Warp programs by measuring first — comparing autodiff against finite differences on a shrunk reproduction before proposing any fix.
Also in Development
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by Google Workspace
Google's official skill for the gws CLI — drive Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat and Admin APIs from an agent, with Model Armor screening.
Also in Development
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by Netlify
Netlify's official skill for zero-config managed Postgres — querying from Functions, Drizzle setup, migrations and per-preview database branches.
Also in Development
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by WordPress
Official WordPress skill for Gutenberg block work: block.json, attributes and serialization, dynamic rendering, and the deprecation path that keeps existing content valid.
Also in Development
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by thedotmack
Persistent cross-session memory for coding agents: hooks capture each session, a local SQLite + vector store compresses it, and a mem-search skill reads it back.
Also in Development
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by Inngest
Build crash-safe AI agents on AgentKit and step.ai — durable tool calls, human-in-the-loop approval, realtime progress, and when not to reach for an agent loop at all.
Also in Development
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by Inngest
Inngest's durable-execution playbook as an agent skill — steps and memoisation, event and cron triggers, idempotency, cancellation, retries and non-retriable errors.
Also in Development
