Building an AI Engineering Automation Harness: Skills, Hooks, and Verification

Repeatable harness: Cursor skills, deploy scripts, trend scout, and verification-before-completion — not one-off prompts.

A harness turns ad-hoc chatting into repeatable operations — the same way CI turned deploys into scripts.

Layers

  1. Skills — markdown SOPs the agent loads first
  2. Rules — repo-specific never-dos
  3. Scripts — trend scout, deploy, lint
  4. Seeders — WordPress pages/posts from git
  5. Verification — curl health, visual QA, no success without logs

Blog automation slot

Weekly cron runs trend scout → editor picks 1–2 topics → brief → article → ai_web_studio_seed_ai_engineering_blog() or WP admin publish.

Metrics that matter

  • Organic clicks on informational posts (GSC)
  • Audit form submits attributed to blog CTAs
  • Time from trend JSON to published article

Resources: Cursor workflow pack (planned) · Free audit

Written by a practitioner

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