btspoony/mstar-harness

Morning Star is an Agent Plugin for harness engineering workflows: a TypeScript Harness Workflow Engine (@mstar-harness/engine) enforces deterministic workflow gates, while mstar-* judgment skills drive multi-agent code delivery.

• Deterministic gates, enforced by a TS engine — path/status/lease/dispatch/sdd/iteration/lint gates run in @mstar-harness/engine, not as prompt suggestions
• Judgment stays in mstar-* skills — skills remain the single source of truth (SSOT) for roles, gates, and workflow judgment
• One engine across hosts — the same engine + skills power dsh (DeepSeek Harness), omp, OpenCode, Cursor, Kimi Code, ZCode, and Codex
• Agent Plugin packaging — one-command install; portable across any Agent Plugins v1.0.0 client
• Recommended host (best → usable): dsh = omp ≥ OpenCode ≥ Cursor > Kimi = ZCode > Codex

What ships

Release notes: CHANGELOG.md / CHANGELOG_CN.md.

Install

Engine gate checks (optional)

npm i -g @mstar-harness/cli

Puts the mstar-harness binary (short alias mstar) on PATH, so the engine-check commands the skills cite (mstar status validate, mstar dispatch validate, mstar iteration gate, …) actually run.

Without a global install the harness still works and those checks stay advisory. Set enforcement: hard in an iteration compass to make dispatch preflights fail-fast.

Caution: mstar is a short alias and a shared bin namespace — an unrelated third-party npm package named mstar claims the same command name. The alias exists only where @mstar-harness/cli is installed: bare npx mstar … without the package resolves via the registry to that other tool, and globally co-installing both packages silently overwrites the mstar shim (last install wins). The canonical invocation name stays mstar-harness — use the long name on any conflict.

Verify

npx @mstar-harness/cli doctor --target <opencode\|cursor\|codex\|zcode\|omp\|dsh>.

The repo ships a portable Agent Plugins v1.0.0 manifest (plugin.json) at its root; skills/ is the Agent Skills component — verify it with npx @mstar-harness/cli plugin validate.

Manual install / path layout: INSTALL.md. CLI flags: docs/cli.md.

Use

Three entry shapes: without iteration (single plan / hotfix), with iteration (multi-plan Phase 1–5), or codebase audit (discover what to do).

General (without iteration)

Enter PM, then run the per-plan cycle: Prepare → Execute → QC → QA gate → Done.

Iteration

Codebase audit

Command loading

Phase 2 defaults: per-plan worktree + lease, Findings cleanup: zero-residual. Override only with explicit Worktree mode: waived / Findings cleanup: allow-residual. SSOT → mstar-iteration, mstar-branch-worktree, mstar-plan-artifacts.

Project knowledge bootstrap: mstar-compound-refresh → references/project-knowledge-bootstrap.md.

Harness Workflow

flowchart TD
    A["PM: entry and intent clarification"] --> B{"PM: spec and context ready"}
    B -->|No| C["PM: clarify and refine requirements"]
    C --> B
    B -->|Yes| D["PM: initialize/load HARNESS_DIR and PLAN_DIR"]
    D --> E{"Iteration scope needed"}
    E -->|Deep / first iteration| F["iteration-start: grill-me → compass → review → lock"]
    E -->|Fast autonomous loop| F2["iteration-loop: Phase 1→5 continuous"]
    F --> G["PM: lock compass and create integration branch"]
    F2 --> G
    G --> H["Phase 2→5: execute → close → PR → merge-ready"]
    E -->|No| I["PM: select active plan from workflow snapshot"]
    H --> I
    I --> J{"Any plan not Done"}
    J -->|Yes| K["PM: dispatch one plan on a feature branch"]
    K --> L["Dev roles: implement and report"]
    L --> M["PM: update plan and workflow snapshot"]
    M --> N["QC trio: review gate"]
    N --> O{"QC decision"}
    O -->|Request Changes| K
    O -->|Approve| P{"QA gate"}
    P -->|mandatory| P1["qa-engineer: acceptance verification"]
    P -->|pm-acceptance| P2["PM: acceptance checklist"]
    P1 --> Q{"Residual findings remain"}
    P2 --> Q
    Q -->|Yes| R["PM/QA: register or accept residuals in project register"]
    R --> S["PM: mark plan Done and merge to integration branch"]
    Q -->|No| S
    S --> T["PM: sync compass plan status"]
    T --> J
    J -->|No| U["iteration-close: close entry checklist"]
    U --> V["PM: compound round and knowledge index"]
    V --> W["PM: update roadmap and compass completed frontmatter"]
    W --> X["PM: close exit checklist and commit"]
    X --> Y["Phase 4: create PR"]
    Y --> Z["Phase 5: merge-ready loop until CI green and reviews resolved"]

Without iteration: same per-plan gates, no iteration-start / iteration-close wrapper.

Roles and skills

Load mstar-harness-core first, then topic skills on demand (mstar-roles).

Consumer plans default to .mstar/. Process artifacts (plans/, iterations/, status.json, workflows/, projects/, sdd/, …) are gitignored; tracked results: {HARNESS_DIR}/AGENTS.md, knowledge/, specs/. Specs resolve .mstar/specs/ → docs/specs/ → repo-root specs/. Repos with a non-default layout can declare every harness directory symbol in a gitignored .mstarc ([config] keys harness_dir / plan_dir / sdd_dir / iteration_dir / knowledge_dir / specs_dir / workflow_dir / project_dir — honored above probing). Details → mstar-plan-conventions.

Maintainers: AGENTS.md.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.