Openharness Daily: Slack Approvals Harden and Experiments Freeze
Seven merges center on trustworthy operations and repeatability, led by fail-closed Slack escalation approvals and a frozen SkillOpt evaluation. Workspace alignment and release integration for v0.15.1 round out a stabilization day.
Duration: PT2M26S
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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: 2026-09-26T12:00:24Z
- Audio duration: PT2M26S
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Good morning, it's Saturday, September 26th, 2026.
The signal today is trust and repeatability — tighter control over who can approve what, and frozen definitions for experiments and environments.
First, Slack becomes a real control plane. PR 1182 adds a stateless decision check that reads operator approvals in reactions and thread replies, rejects unauthorized decisions, and fails closed rather than trusting shared credentials. For developers, that means escalations are safer to wire into automation: no…
Second, the local host gets more predictable ahead of release. PR 1184 aligns the implicit workspace with the harness name, so new installs fall back to the harness workspace while existing recorded roots and explicitly named defaults keep working. That reduces surprise when tooling looks for files. Around it are…
Finally, scale caution on learning. PR 1172 freezes the rewrite corpus, builds an episode verifier, records the experiment definition, and runs a native harness episode plus a training baseline — then stops before generating candidates, citing a headroom stop, with verdict reported.
What's next: integration work toward version 0.15.1 points to a release window, and expect…
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