ECC Setup: Install the Claude Code Agent Harness in 10 Minutes.

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This one command gives your coding agent a whole engineering system. Planning, tests, code review, memory, all installed at once. It is called ECC. Free and open source on GitHub, around two hundred forty five thousand stars, MIT licensed. Sixty eight agents, two hundred eighty six skills, and a security scanner, for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more. The install is one guided command. npx ecc universal setup. It asks for a scope and a hook profile, and that is it. First, check the prerequisites. Node eighteen or newer, Git, and Claude Code two point one or newer. Then confirm the package version on npm. Here is what the install actually does. The minimal profile drops rules, agents, and commands, nearly five hundred file operations, straight into your Claude folder. And you get a welcome screen. Now verify it. List installed shows every managed target on the machine, and doctor reports anything that drifted. ECC even ships a local control pane. Sessions, work items, knowledge, and connectors, running on your own machine. From here, open Claude Code and give it a feature to plan. The planner returns a blueprint before a single line of code is written. That is the whole setup. A plan first, test first agent, in about ten minutes.