Harness Session Inventory

This is a Hermes-native harness-session-inventory workflow skill.

Why This Exists

harness-session-inventory exists so Hermes users can ask for this workflow in chat and receive a structured, evidence-bounded OMH operating surface instead of ad hoc narration.

Do Not Use When

• The request is already handled by a narrower explicit skill with stronger evidence.
• The user asks OMH to secretly run external platforms, connectors, schedulers, file exports, or runtime agents.
• The only safe answer is to ask for missing authority, credentials, target, or observed evidence first.

Examples

Good example:

• Prompt: harness-session-inventory compare Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, MCP configs, and worktrees for drift before we dispatch agents.
• Expected behavior: Produce prepare_harness_session_inventory with required context, wrapper actions, and not-evidence boundaries.
• Why: The prompt names a real workflow surface that Hermes can orchestrate without hiding execution.

Bad example:

• Prompt: harness-session-inventory claim every MCP host loaded and every agent session is healthy from config files alone.
• Expected behavior: Report the missing observed evidence or authority instead of claiming the external step happened.
• Why: Prepared OMH guidance is not platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.

Completion Checklist

• The inventory scope names the harnesses, sessions, MCP hosts, connector configs, and worktrees being compared.
• Prepared, observed, missing, stale, and drifted entries are separated before any health or progress claim.
• The next action says whether to load a host, verify a connector, inspect a worktree, dispatch an executor, or stay blocked.

Recovery Notes

• If config sources are unavailable, report only the discovered surfaces and mark the missing hosts not_observed.
• If cleanup, host load, connector execution, or session progress is requested, route to the owning workflow instead of folding it into inventory.

Workflow Lane

• Current lane: Automation and status (achievements, workspace-audit, production-audit, automation-blueprint, github-event-ops, buzz, agent-board, gateway-intent-card, +34 more) - schedules, status, health, and ops review.
• If intent belongs to another lane, hand back to oh-my-hermes or name the adjacent workflow.
• Shared product, routing, compatibility, and evidence rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md.

Use When

Use when operators need a cross-harness/session/MCP/worktree inventory and drift summary before claiming any host loaded, connector ran, or agent session progressed.

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Catalog Metadata

Category: observability Phase: harness-session-inventory Hermes role: tracker Quality tier: workflow-surface-gated Reasoning demand: standard

Quality bar:

• Name the user-facing workflow objective, required context, next action, and stop condition.
• Separate prepared guidance from observed platform, runtime, connector, file, memory, or delivery evidence.
• Expose missing tools, credentials, targets, or observations as user-visible gaps.

Handoff policy:

Keep this as Hermes-facing orchestration guidance first. Prepare executor, connector, gateway, or host-runtime handoff only when the user accepts that next step and observed evidence can be recorded.

Required inputs:

• user request
• target context
• delivery or status expectation
• known missing evidence

Expected outputs:

• harness_session_inventory/v1 card or guidance
• harness_session_adapter_matrix/v1
• mcp_inventory_drift_report/v1
• worktree_lifecycle_snapshot/v1
• session_progress_slots/v1
• next action
• prepared-vs-observed boundary

Artifact expectations:

• harness_session_inventory/v1 metadata-only runtime or wrapper card when recorded
• harness_session_adapter_matrix/v1 with observed, prepared, missing, and stale adapters
• mcp_inventory_drift_report/v1 with secret-redacted config/source drift only
• worktree_lifecycle_snapshot/v1 with merge-conflict and cleanup candidates when observed

Safety rules:

• A harness session inventory is not host load, MCP tool-call, connector availability, executor dispatch, worktree cleanup, merge-conflict resolution, or session progress evidence.
• Do not claim connector, gateway, runtime, file generation, memory mutation, or host automation evidence from prepared guidance.

Runtime Evidence

Preferred harness for this skill: harness-session-inventory.

sh
omh runtime record --skill harness-session-inventory --harness harness-session-inventory --status started

Record observed delegation results; otherwise return not_available or not_observed. Prepared OMH routing is not execution, review, CI, merge-readiness, or merge evidence.

• Treat wrapper memory/context summaries as advisory local context, not proof of opaque Hermes memory reads or changes.

Preserve workflow intent and stop conditions; verify before claiming completion.

Use Hermes-native subagent/delegation features when available: native subagents -> Hermes delegation when available, otherwise sequential lanes.

Shared product, compatibility, topology, memory, harness, and execution rules: omh-routing/references/skill-common-rail.md. Load it when applicable; otherwise name an unavailable capability.