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id: ADR-001
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title: Single shared agent harness; instances are declarative state in consuming repos
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status: accepted
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date: "2026-07-17"
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---
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# ADR-001 — Single shared agent harness
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## Status
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Accepted (DEC-2026-002, binky-control DecisionQueue, resolved by Bernd
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2026-07-17; hub decision `63620255-59d0-4109-bdee-4d0644c450e5`).
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## Context
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Unattended agentic work needs blueprints (kaizen-agentic), compute
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(llm-connect), scheduling (activity-core), credentials, policy, memory,
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and reporting — a complex, rapidly evolving combination. The candidate
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homes for the execution runtime all had disqualifying boundaries in their
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ratified INTENT files: activity-core "does not execute the work";
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kaizen-agentic does no scheduling and no LLM invocation; llm-connect is
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an interface layer. Per-project executor repos would multiply glue code
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and upgrades linearly with agent count. The concrete trigger: binky-
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control's operating rhythm depended on a workstation cron bridge
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(BINKY-WP-0004).
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## Decision
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1. **One new repo — `agent-harness` — is the single shared agent runtime
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for all projects.** No further runtime repos per agent or per project.
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2. **Agent instances live in consuming repos as declarative state only**
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(manifest + `.kaizen/` memory/metrics): blueprint reference, cadence,
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lane, named tool profile, budget, pinned harness major. No code, no
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credentials, no tool enumerations.
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3. **Blueprints stay in kaizen-agentic; scheduling stays in
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activity-core; provider abstraction stays in llm-connect.** The
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harness consumes all three and is the only credential holder and
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policy enforcement point for agent sessions.
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4. The 2026-07-17 executor-worker prototype is adopted as the harness
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seed (`agent_harness/` package). binky-control is tenant #1.
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Details: [docs/architecture.md](../architecture.md).
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## Consequences
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- Adding an agent to any project = editing that project's manifest;
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onboarding a project = committing one manifest.
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- Base-technology evolution (adapters, tool policies, credential
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mechanics) lands once, here — instances upgrade by version bump.
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- The harness becomes a critical shared service: it needs its own
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versioning discipline, conformance tests, and kaizen measurement.
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- BINKY-WP-0004-T06 (cron-bridge cutover) now gates on this repo's
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Railiance deployment instead of a binky-specific worker.
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- Repo-boundary discipline continues: any pressure to add scheduling,
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blueprint authoring, or tenant-specific logic here is a signal to
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extend the neighbor repo or the instance model instead.
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