Harness

harness init

Purpose

Create the baseline Harness scaffold in the current working directory.

Usage

harness init [options]

Options

• --project-name <name>: override the inferred project name.
• --help: show the command help text.

Examples

Infer the project name from the directory:

harness init

Provide the project name explicitly:

harness init --project-name "Billing Service"

Behavior

• Writes the scaffold only into the current directory.
• Fails if generated files already exist.
• Does not invoke external tools.
• Produces a language-agnostic baseline ready for harness configure.
• Generates a root CHANGELOG.md with a Keep a Changelog style starting point.
• Generates dedicated REVIEW.md and PRODUCT_SPECS.md standards alongside the other root guidance files.
• Teaches generated repositories to store artifacts in day-based folders under features/generated/.

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