Openharness Daily: Retiring the Old Agent Context System
Five merged pull requests this cycle unwound the old always-on agent context tier in favor of a single AGENTS dot M D file, then spent three follow-up PRs cleaning up the broken references and dangling links that deletion left behind.
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- Show: Openharness Daily
- Published: 2026-08-29T12:00:20Z
- Audio duration: PT2M18S
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Good morning. It's August 29th, and today's Openharness activity is really one story told in five acts: the retirement of the old dot O H context and agents system.
The headline change is PR 869, which deleted the always-on dot O H context tier entirely. The reasoning matters here — there was never an actual loader or session-start hook running that tier. It was read only because AGENTS dot M D asked nicely, in prose, for agents to go read it. That's voluntary compliance with…
That deletion had a ripple effect. PR 865 removed a much larger pack — the agent definitions like advisor, architect, critic, designer, implementer, and PM, along with old plans, handoffs, and task records. But that move broke things: a symlink pointing to the agents directory went dangling, and multiple files…
The cleanup took three more PRs. PR 866 restored the agents directory as an empty, documented placeholder so the symlink chain stays intact, without bringing back the actual agent definitions. PR 867 fixed the documentation fallout — glossary entries citing deleted agents and a broken source link, now repointed. And…
The throughline for developers: this wasn't one clean deletion, it was a deletion…
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