Release v1.18.1 · nguyenhx2/agent-harness-bootstrap

Updating to a new skill version no longer invents conflicts. .gitattributes checks this
repo's text out native, so a skill cloned on Windows holds CRLF while the same skill in WSL, in
CI, or unzipped from a release holds LF. Bootstrap from one and update from the other and every
text asset differed by one byte per line: a real 1.17.0 to 1.18.0 upgrade reported 14 conflicts,
seven of them fake - five .gitkeep files, .claude/.gitignore and spawn-allowlist,
identical in every character. A reconciliation queue nobody can read is a reconciliation queue
nobody works, and taking a new version is the one moment when reading it matters most. The
scaffolder now forgives line endings and nothing else: a file you edited still conflicts, and a
binary asset is still compared byte for byte.
spec-builder ships 8 optional spec sections, not 9. The README was right and docs/FLOWS.md,
the presentation outline and the deck in three languages were wrong. The number is now derived
from the manifest and checked on every surface that states it, in all three languages.

The published count of optional spec sections is 8, not 9, and it is now derived from
assets/manifest.json rather than remembered. A section is optional exactly when its entry
carries a when flag; the core six plus the folder README are unconditional.

Tools

Downloadable builds for Windows, macOS and Linux are attached to this release.

Instruction files are nodes. AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and the per-tool equivalents appear in
the leftmost column - they are the contract every seat reads, so they sit before the rules - and
they are editable in place. New edges show which seats a contract briefs, which rules it cites,
and that CLAUDE.md imports AGENTS.md. Paths were researched rather than assumed, and the one
that could not be confirmed against a first-party source is marked unverified instead of
being claimed.
The routing tiers are visible. The Direct / Standard / Guarded table is parsed out of
whichever file states it and rendered as its own panel, and any seat the table names carries a
tier badge. Direct and Standard name nobody, so nobody is badged for them.
A step's table is edited in a grid, not by hand-aligning pipes. A real routing table is 17
rows; it used to arrive as a wall of | in a box four lines tall. Rows and columns can be added
and removed, and a one-cell edit produces a one-line diff, because each row is written back from
its original bytes unless its cells actually changed.
@ opens a picker over everything taggable - seats, rules, skills, commands and repository
paths - with no word typed, and inserts the citation this repo actually uses for whatever is
chosen. The three older triggers each required knowing which kind of thing you were citing,
which is fine once you know the harness and useless before you do.

Skills have their own Flow column. Sharing the hooks column reads fine with two skills and falls
apart with twenty: a column of purple ran through the middle of six yellow hooks and the
enforcement layer - the part of the picture that says what can say no - could not be picked out.
Dialogs are 760px, 1040px for the roster editor, and resizable. Footer buttons carry one of
six colours so a destructive action is never one careless click from a confirm.
The edge animation runs at 0.22 px per frame instead of 0.7. At the old speed the eye tracked the
motion instead of the direction it was pointing.

A CRLF file made the instruction editor report itself unsaved forever: a textarea normalises to
LF, so the buffer never equalled the stored original.
Two tests passed only on an older checkout. .gitattributes marks *.md as text, so a fresh
Windows clone gets CRLF fixtures and both compared them against LF literals.

Install