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DESIGN.md@apps/desktop from harnessprotocol/harness-kit is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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mdr add harnessprotocol/harness-kit/apps/desktop/DESIGN.md@git:20260927.047e79d

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Audit grade
A, 14 of 14 checks passed
Kind
DESIGN.md file
Repository
harnessprotocol/harness-kit
Path
apps/desktop/DESIGN.md
Versions recorded
6
Latest version
git:20260927.047e79d, committed Sep 27, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 4, 2026
Size
27,118 bytes
Repository stars
10
License
Apache-2.0

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What the file says

# Harness Kit v2 — Design Spec (canonical)

**Status:** Signed off 2026-07-03. Direction **A "Instrument"** selected.
**This file is the source of truth for all v2 UI work.** Agents build against this, never invent. When this conflicts with older styling on `main`, this wins. Token values here are expressed against the **existing CSS variable names** in `packages/design-tokens/src/tokens.ts` so rollout is a values-swap + `pnpm generate:tokens` — do not rename variables.

Product framing (why the UI looks the way it does): Harness Kit v2 is **the control plane for your AI coding harnesses** — a dense professional instrument that is scanned and operated, not read top-to-bottom. It is dogfooded daily and must also win a stranger's first five minutes. It is NOT a marketing site; marketing scale lives only on the website.

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## 0. Direction A "Instrument" — the one-line brief
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add harnessprotocol/harness-kit/apps/desktop/DESIGN.md@sha256:bb651ace260be5f3

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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 4, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 17 days.

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  • 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
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  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

harnessprotocol/harness-kit · 10 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yhvv2lf7sjaj7c7v
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harnessprotocol/harness-kit/apps/desktop/DESIGN.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bb651ace260be5f3db29b4f6e7d354be7a669c7f8819aeb53c91009231e9a560

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Guides: what DESIGN.md is and how agents use it · which agent file does what.

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