DESIGN.md@harnessB
DESIGN.md@harness from alter-persona/alter is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.
mdr add alter-persona/alter/harness/DESIGN.md@git:20260925.b6dec4dPins git:20260925.b6dec4d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 13 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- DESIGN.md file
- Repository
- alter-persona/alter
- Path
harness/DESIGN.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260925.b6dec4d, committed Sep 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 25, 2026
- Size
- 17,014 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- Apache-2.0
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# The push harness: design A harness that takes one product idea and drives a local Hermes agent from idea to launch-ready without waiting for a human, while sending you one Telegram message a day. ## The one-paragraph story Three Hermes profiles share one kanban board on the Mac Studio. The Driver reads the charter and the board every 30 minutes and asks one question: what is the highest-risk unknown right now, and which card retires it? It writes that card. The Builder picks the card up, does the work inside a protected folder, and hands it to review with evidence. The Critic scores the evidence against a fixed rubric and either accepts it or sends it back with what is missing. The board is durable SQLite, so the loop survives restarts, model crashes and days of wall clock. The Driver never asks you anything. It takes the default written in the charter, logs the decision, and moves on. Once a day it sends a digest. You reply to the digest to override anything. ## Why a board and not a chat loop …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alter-persona/alter/harness/DESIGN.md@sha256:ecf02d320aeea68aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260925.b6dec4d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_guh4ikmaqc47bsih)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 25, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260925.b6dec4d latest | 2026-09-25 | b6dec4d | 17,014 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260925.58cc4e7 | 2026-09-25 | 58cc4e7 | 15,857 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://127.0.0.1:11434)
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (17014 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for DESIGN.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
alter-persona/alter · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_guh4ikmaqc47bsih GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alter-persona/alter/harness/DESIGN.md GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ecf02d320aeea68aa44f4c5bdab5c57bc59a6078f877423bb3c64e7d3b6ab3be
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