Openharness Daily: Version 0.7.0 Locks Down Sandbox Installation
Version 0.7.0 shipped today, consolidating how harnesses, tools, and sandboxes get installed into a single, explicit command path instead of automatic boot-time provisioning. The release closes out issues 948 and 950 and triggers the full publish pipeline to container registry, npm, and GitHub releases.
Duration: PT2M22S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Openharness Daily.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Openharness Daily
- Published: 2026-09-03T12:00:46Z
- Audio duration: PT2M22S
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Good morning. It's September 3rd, and today's story is a release day with a clear design philosophy behind it.
The headline is version 0.7.0, merged by Ryan Eggleston in pull request 953. But the real story is what got bundled into it: two feature efforts, tracked as issues 948 and 950, that both push the same idea — one door in, no side entrances.
First theme: installation now has exactly one path. Pull request 949 closes issue 948 by making "harness install" and "tool install" the only way anything enters a sandbox. Nothing installs automatically at boot anymore. The old grab bag of persist flags, default flags, and provisioning environment variables is…
Second theme: sandbox creation no longer requires standing inside a project. Pull request 951 closes issue 950 by giving each command line verb its own configuration and turning sandbox setup into a guided flow — install docker, run the wizard, then create. This pairs directly with the one-door work: together they…
Both pull requests carried passing implementation audits and clean evaluations before merge, which matters given they modified boot behavior and sandbox compatibility — areas where a regression would be disruptive.
The…