Openharness Daily: Console Login Moves to Device Flow in v0.24.0
Version 0.24.0 ships a breaking authentication change that moves the console token from project files to per-user credentials with a device flow, plus a reliability fix for headless browser installs on clean hosts.
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- Show: Openharness Daily
- Published: 2026-10-17T12:00:32Z
- Audio duration: PT2M6S
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Good morning, it's Saturday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty-six, and this is Openharness Daily.
The headline is a breaking change to how you sign in to console. Version zero twenty-four moves the console token out of project files and into per-user credentials, backed by a full device authorization flow.
That work, merged in pull request fourteen forty-nine, adds login, status, logout and token commands to the command line. Login runs a standard device flow against console, then writes a per-user credentials file. Status checks identity without exposing the full secret, showing only a prefix. Logout revokes on the…
Reliability is the second theme. Pull request fourteen forty-seven fixes host installs of the agent browser tool. On a fresh console node with no Chromium-based browser, the install used to fail. It now downloads Chrome, with system dependencies when running with elevated privileges, verifies that headless Chrome…
Both changes shipped together in version zero twenty-four, pull request fourteen fifty-four, which also dates the changelog. After that merge, a fast-forward of main triggers the release workflow.
What's next: if you use node commands, run the new login step…
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