Openharness Daily: Version 0.13 Cutover and Sandbox Fix
Version 0.13.0 shipped to main with full retirement of legacy naming and standardized medium-effort model defaults. A sandbox permission fix for harness updates and a draft minimal-core experiment track round out the activity.
Duration: PT2M19S
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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: 2026-09-23T12:00:32Z
- Audio duration: PT2M19S
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Good morning, it's Wednesday, September twenty-third, twenty twenty-six.
Version 0.13 has shipped to main, and the headline is finality: the old naming layer is fully retired, and harness defaults are now standardized.
First theme is the cutover. Pull request 1136 completes phase five of the Agro rename tracked in issue 1061. The tree had already moved, but a compatibility layer still accepted the old short name for directories, config files, and install locations, alongside a legacy command shim. That layer is now removed with no…
Second, a sandbox reliability fix. Pull request 1139 closes issue 1138, where built-in updaters for two harnesses failed with permission errors because they called the global installer without a writable prefix. The harness installer already worked around this by pointing at the sandbox user's local directory. This…
Third, process. Pull request 1137 is intentionally left in draft as a living diff for the long-lived minimal core experiment, superseding the closed 1135 after a branch rename. Pull request 1141 feeds that experiment branch with a rewritten vision document focused on operators and contributors.
What's next is cleanup and comparison. Migrate any…
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