Core Entities
Project
Section titled “Project”A repository or workspace managed by Ultimate Harness. It owns .harness/ metadata and links to external issue trackers.
Key fields:
idnameroot_pathissue_sourcesdefault_workflow_profilesartifact_schema_version
Issue reference
Section titled “Issue reference”A link to GitHub, Linear, or another tracker item.
Key fields:
provideridurltitlestatus
A durable statement of desired behavior, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
Workflow profile
Section titled “Workflow profile”A named recipe for turning a request into missions and verification gates.
A reusable procedural capability with metadata, body, prerequisites, and verification hooks.
Mission
Section titled “Mission”A bounded executable work unit compiled from a request/spec/plan.
Mission packet
Section titled “Mission packet”The serialized mission passed to a runtime adapter.
Runtime
Section titled “Runtime”The external agent system that executes work.
Runtime adapter
Section titled “Runtime adapter”The code/config that maps Ultimate Harness lifecycle calls to a runtime.
Runtime session
Section titled “Runtime session”A single execution attempt inside a runtime, associated with a mission and sandbox.
Sandbox
Section titled “Sandbox”An isolated workspace where the runtime performs changes.
Artifact
Section titled “Artifact”Any output produced or consumed by the harness: docs, specs, plans, prompts, logs, diffs, verification results, review notes, or promoted files.
Verification result
Section titled “Verification result”Structured evidence for checks and reviews.
Promotion record
Section titled “Promotion record”A record that approved sandbox artifacts were moved into canonical state.
Audit event
Section titled “Audit event”Append-only trace event connecting decisions, runtime activity, verification, and promotion.