Openharness Daily: Sandbox Hardening and CLI Consistency

Weekend activity centered on safer sandboxes and more predictable CLI behavior around the 0.26 release. Sandbox privilege fixes, quieter secret guards, and harness and node-create cleanup carry the most developer impact.

Duration: PT2M14S

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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: 2026-10-26T12:00:36Z
  • Audio duration: PT2M14S

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Good morning, it's Monday, October 26th, 2026, and this is Openharness Daily.

This weekend's signal is hardening plus consistency: the sandbox got safer to run without root, the secret guards got less noisy, and two long-standing CLI rough edges got cleaned up around the 0 point 26 release.

First, sandbox trust. Pull request 1517 changes the container entrypoint so provisioning runs as the sandbox user, not root, closing a path where root could execute agent-writable scripts. The same change fixes the shell failure hint to restart the named sandbox instead of spinning up a new one. Paired with that,…

Second, CLI predictability. Pull request 1526 makes claude the canonical harness name, keeping claude-code as a deprecated alias and migrating stored install records, scripts, checks, and docs. Pull request 1527 fixes node creation, which always sent sandbox as the profile. It now accepts a profile choice between…

Finally, release and workflow. Pull request 1519 cuts version 0 point 26, merging in mainline fixes and keeping write token jobs on hosted runners. Around it, pull request 1524 adds an improve skill as a five-lens review preset, and an open proposal, pull request 1515, would…

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