Openharness Daily: Open Shell Sandbox and Escalation Timeouts

PR 1255 adds an experimental Open Shell sandbox runtime limited to shell, list and destroy, while merged PR 1253 enforces a 24-hour reminder and 72-hour expiry for escalations. The shared impact is tighter safety boundaries for automation and approvals.

Duration: PT2M22S

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  • Show: Openharness Daily
  • Published: 2026-09-29T12:00:29Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M22S

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Good morning, today is September 29th, 2026, and you're listening to Openharness Daily.

The takeaway from yesterday is boundaries: automation gets a new place to run, and stalled approvals get a firm deadline.

First, a new experimental sandbox runtime. In PR 1255, the team adds support for running the published image under Open Shell without system D, with a canonical policy and a dedicated execution target. You provision it through the sandbox install flow, and once it's there, only shell, list, and destroy are routed…

Second, merged work on escalation timeouts. In PR 1253, pending escalation records are now checked on a deadline. Operators get a single reminder after 24 hours without a decision, and unanswered escalations expire after 72 hours without executing the blocked action. Notices are delivered once, with no unsafe state…

What's next: expect follow-up on the open shell runtime as it moves beyond experimental, and update any on-call playbooks to account for the 24 and 72 hour escalation windows. No additional commits were recorded, so these two pull requests carry the day's signal.

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