Openharness Daily: AGRO 0.18.0 Ships Fx Harness and Workspace Fixes
AGRO released version 0.18.0 on October 7th, bundling the new optional Fx harness with Hermes and credential reliability fixes. The pattern is expansion without disruption: new capability opt-in, while install and authentication behavior gets more predictable.
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- Show: Openharness Daily
- Published: 2026-10-07T12:00:05Z
- Audio duration: PT1M51S
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Good morning, it's October 7th, 2026, and this is Openharness Daily.
Today's lead: AGRO cut version 0.18.0, rolling a new optional harness and a set of workspace and credential fixes into a single release.
First, expansion. Pull request 1340 adds F-X from Vercel Labs as an optional AGRO harness, validated on Exe dot dev, with a new catalog entry and integration docs covering its agents file, skills directory, and hooks. The release in pull request 1351 confirms the same shipment also includes a remote sandbox…
Second, correctness in workspace and credentials. Pull request 1345 binds Hermes install, repair, and supported launches to the resolved AGRO workspace, aligning the launch contract and gateway while preserving authentication and state without automatic migration or a live restart. Separately, pull request 1349…
What's next: if you run Hermes, verify fresh installs land in the expected workspace and preserve login. If you use TypeSafe, confirm the saved key now takes precedence. The release notes flag one open item: a live Hermes session on the new default model has not yet been verified, so treat that change as provisional.
That's it for today from Openharness Daily.
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