Agent Harness Bootstrap

Six explainer clips. They play here in the browser - no download needed. Every clip is captioned, so sound is not required.

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The complete solution ~54s

The whole product in one clip: the four pain points, then spec-builder writing the contract, harness-bootstrap building the harness, the delivery loop running inside it, and the payoff. Each pain visibly flips from red to green as its fix lands.

The short introductions

1. What it is and why ~33s

An unconstrained agent hallucinates, forgets on compaction, and bills at the top tier. Two skills build a harness.

2. The operating flow ~29s

spec-builder writes the contract; harness-bootstrap reads the code and scaffolds in ~0.2s; then the task loop runs.

3. The control layers ~31s

Deny list, hooks, path-scoped rules, review gates. The guardrails are shell scripts, so Opus to Haiku is identical safety.

The two skills, in depth

5. spec-builder in depth ~58s

Raw input to a contract: elicit, confirm the FR list first, scaffold the 13 sections, fill them in order, then the traceability check. Nothing is invented - anything unstated becomes a flagged AS-nn or OI-nn. Mirrors diagram 5 in docs/FLOWS.md.

6. harness-bootstrap in depth ~59s

Mode, then the mandatory codebase analysis and Inventory Report, intake and the tool questionnaire, a roster with explicit model and effort, the scaffold that reports ADDED / KEPT / CONFLICT and never clobbers, then orchestration wiring. Mirrors diagram 2 in docs/FLOWS.md.