Openharness Daily: Main Checkout Default and Reliability Fixes
Delegated work now defaults to the main checkout, with documentation updated to match in PRs 1564 and 1566. Separate fixes tighten CI status checks for older CLI versions and correct Docker provisioning in PRs 1568 and 1562.
Duration: PT2M5S
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This episode is a short developer briefing from Openharness Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Openharness Daily
- Published: 2026-11-06T13:00:35Z
- Audio duration: PT2M5S
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Good morning, it's Friday, November 6th, 2026, and this is Openharness Daily.
The big shift is the main checkout is now the default place to work, replacing the old worktree-first habit across automation and docs.
That change landed in pull request 1564, which removes the separate review state from the delegate workflow and replaces it with a wave loop that consolidates and verifies work in the main checkout. Ownership of that checkout decision now sits clearly with the worktrees command. Pull request 1566 carries the same…
On reliability, pull request 1568 fixes continuous integration checks for older command line tooling, specifically version 2.45. The next script now reads the pull request head, draft status, and check results in a single query, keeping the existing status messages unchanged. It also tightens the test stub to reject…
Finally, open pull request 1562 corrects node provisioning. Creating a node without the Docker option will now explicitly send Docker as off, instead of accidentally enabling it. The other creation flags are unchanged. That's a small fix with real cost impact if you've been getting Docker environments you didn't ask…
What's next: expect delegated runs…
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