Vigiles - Setup Guide¶
Source: skills.sh (12.3K combined installs) GitHub: zernie/vigiles (15⭐, MIT) Category: Agent Quality & Harness Verification First Seen: June 6, 2026 (skills.sh) Quality Tier: 🟢 Production (Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass / Socket Pass / Snyk Pass)
"Like Lighthouse for your agent harness" - Vigiles verifies that your CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, skills, and hooks are real and tested, then hardens them. The core loop: strengthen scans spec files for guidance() rules and proposes enforce() replacements backed by actual linter rules (free wins auto-applied, costly changes presented as tradeoffs); verify-docs-findable checks agents can actually discover the docs; test-harness and debug-my-harness validate the harness itself; dogfood-cli closes the loop by testing your own tooling. A governance-first cluster in the same family as CorpusIQ's internal audit skills.
Installation¶
npx skills add zernie/vigiles --skill strengthen
npx skills add zernie/vigiles --skill verify-docs-findable
npx skills add zernie/vigiles --skill test-harness
npx skills add zernie/vigiles --skill deep-research
Core Skills¶
| Skill | Installs | Use For |
|---|---|---|
| strengthen / edit-spec / adopt-spec / migrate-to-spec | 1.3-1.5K | Spec lifecycle: create, edit, adopt, and harden rules |
| test-harness / debug-my-harness | 1.5K / 973 | Validate and debug the agent harness itself |
| linter-docs / add-a-linter / generate-rule / pr-to-lint-rule | 30-1.4K | Linter rule management from docs and PRs |
| verify-docs-findable / review-docs / audience-check | 250-534 | Documentation discoverability and audience fit |
| deep-research | 670 | Structured deep-research workflow |
| audit-feedback-loop / enforce-rules-format / code-quality | 298-344 | Quality gates and rule formatting |
| screenshot / generate-logo / landing-site | 205-317 | Visual assets for tooling and sites |
| dogfood-cli | 30 | Test your own CLI like a user |
Prerequisites¶
- None - prompt-skill suite; no API keys or services
- A spec/AGENTS.md file in the target repo unlocks the strengthen/adopt-spec workflows
CorpusIQ Use Cases¶
- Agent-harness hygiene - verify-docs-findable and test-harness mirror CorpusIQ's own system-auditor and stack-doctor sweeps, as a cross-check methodology
- Governance hardening - the guidance → enforce upgrade loop is a concrete pattern for CorpusIQ's governance baselines (turn prose rules into enforced checks)
- Docs findability - audience-check and review-docs pair with CorpusIQ's docs SEO/AEO/GEO passes
Limitations / Verification¶
- Small repo (15⭐, 12.3K installs) - early-stage publisher; skills are stable but the ecosystem around them is thin
- Vigiles targets Claude Code conventions (CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md); adapt paths when applying to Hermes profiles
- Verify install:
npx skills list | grep -E "strengthen|test-harness"
Security¶
Gen Agent Trust Hub: Pass · Socket: Pass · Snyk: Pass