# Harness Subagents

> Specification and documentation for Harness sub-agents

- [Harness Subagents Overview](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/home.md): A standardized way to define reusable subagents for AI agent harnesses.
- [Specification](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/specification.md): The complete format specification for Harness Subagents.
- [Quickstart](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/subagent-creation/quickstart.md): Create your first subagent and see it work in Claude Code.
- [Best practices for subagent creators](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/subagent-creation/best-practices.md): How to write subagents that delegate well and return reports parents can act on.
- [Writing subagent descriptions](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/subagent-creation/writing-descriptions.md): How to improve your subagent's description so the parent delegates at the right times.
- [Designing deliverables](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/subagent-creation/designing-deliverables.md): How to shape what a subagent reports back so the parent can act on it.
- [Evaluating subagents](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/subagent-creation/evaluating-subagents.md): How to test whether a subagent delegates, executes and reports reliably.
- [How to add subagents support to your harness](https://personal-f2f22caf.mintlify.app/harness-implementation/adding-subagents-support.md): A guide for adding Harness Subagents support to an AI agent harness.


This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.