refactor!: make harness a declarative OpenShell workflow runner

[robbycochran]

Summary

This is an intentionally breaking refactor that defines Harness as a
declarative OpenShell runner for repository automation and local developer
sessions.

A consuming repository checks in a version 1 workflow document describing how
a task should run. The same workflow can execute from GitHub Actions, another
CI system, or a developer terminal with --attach. It combines the target
gateway, provider references, policy, skills, agent, and inference route for a
specific use case. Harness resolves that input, runs an isolated OpenShell
sandbox, returns the result, and cleans up the run.

PR review is the first supported example, not the product boundary. The runner
can support repository maintenance, CI assistance, research, issue/PR
automation, and interactive development when each workflow defines its own
access and mutation contract.

What changed

• Added the explicit workflow namespace:
  • harness workflow plan FILE
  • harness workflow apply FILE
• Simplified workflow documents to a strict flat version 1 format:
  • version: 1
  • name: ...
  • workflow fields (target, inference, sandbox, agent, source, and
    payloads) at the document root
• Removed the Kubernetes-style kind, apiVersion, metadata, and spec
  envelope; the CLI command already identifies the document type.
• Removed redundant provider-management configuration. Providers are
  reference-only: inference.provider selects the inference provider and
  sandbox.providers attaches masked provider proxies. They must be provisioned
  by OpenShell/platform bootstrap.
• Added docs/workflow-format.md as the concise human contract; the strict Go
  parser and parser/plan/apply/redaction tests remain the executable contract.
• Workflow files can be passed positionally; --file/-f remains supported.
• Removed the broad top-level CLI surfaces:
  • doctor
  • init
  • delete
  • get
  • describe
• Runtime inspection and retained-sandbox cleanup use native OpenShell commands
  (openshell sandbox get/list/connect/logs/delete).
• Deleted the orphaned init golden fixture and renamed version-specific
  fixtures to their current generic names.
• Sandbox cleanup defaults to deletion; sandbox.keep: true is an explicit
  debugging opt-in for retaining a run-scoped sandbox.
• Raised the PR-review diff guardrail to 256 KiB so this refactor can be
  reviewed while keeping input and diagnostic output bounded.

State and ownership model

The flat version 1 workflow document is input, not a persisted Harness object.
Harness has no workflow database, release history, controller loop, scheduler,
or rollback mechanism. plan is a read-only preview; apply is a one-shot
adapter/reconciler followed by an ephemeral sandbox run.

Concern	Owner
Gateway, workspace, provider, inference, policy, credential masking, sandbox	OpenShell/platform
Workflow runs, labels, artifacts, concurrency, approvals	GitHub Actions or the local session
Skills, prompts, review criteria, workflow inputs, result interpretation	Consuming repository/user
Input resolution, planning, source/payload staging, execution, cleanup	Harness

The only current control-plane compatibility write is inference-route
reconciliation; it should shrink as OpenShell makes that configuration native.
Host source caches and explicit result files are outputs/optimizations, not
authoritative workflow state.

Credential and policy boundary

Workflows reference provider names; they do not define provider credentials.
OpenShell resolves providers and exposes masked, proxy-backed access inside the
sandbox. Raw credentials are not placed in workflow YAML, sandbox environment,
payloads, agent arguments, logs, artifacts, prompts, or structured output.

For GitHub Actions, trusted host-side bootstrap may use the automatic
GITHUB_TOKEN to register the native OpenShell GitHub provider. It is not
passed as a sandbox environment variable. Local sessions can use native
OpenShell credentials or a configured upstream gateway. Direct OIDC
registration is in-memory for the invocation, with the client secret read only
from OPENSHELL_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET.

Harness itself does not create, update, or delete providers or credentials.
Platform bootstrap provisions them; workflows reference them through
inference.provider or sandbox.providers. Missing references fail before
sandbox creation. The PR-review demo's trusted shell bootstrap currently
creates temporary providers for its self-contained test path; that is
adapter-specific bootstrap, not Harness workflow behavior.

Why this is a breaking change

The old command set and manifest envelope suggested that Harness owned gateway
resources and durable workflow lifecycle. That was the wrong abstraction
boundary. This change makes the public API match the intended product:
repository/user-owned declarative input, one-shot execution in CI or locally,
and native OpenShell ownership of runtime state.

There are deliberately no compatibility aliases or migration layer. Consumers
should update commands and workflow files directly, for example:

harness workflow apply workflow.yaml --attach

Validation

• Go 1.25: go build ./..., go vet ./..., and go test ./... pass.
• Offline CLI suite: 11/11 checks pass; live gateway lifecycle is skipped
  without a gateway.
• YAML parsing, actionlint, Bash syntax, and diff checks pass.
• Host Go 1.19 cannot parse this repository's Go 1.25 module declaration;
  container/CI Go 1.25 validation is authoritative.

Follow-up

The next repository integration should consume this runner directly, supply its
own workflow, skills, and policy files, and keep task-specific publication
behavior outside the Harness core.

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Walkthrough

The PR extracts agent-output validation into a reusable script, updates PR review integration and fixtures, adds positional workflow-file support to the apply command, and revises repository documentation.

Changes

Agent validation extraction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reusable agent-output validation scripts/review/validate-agent-output.sh, scripts/review/README.md, scripts/pr-review.sh, test/pr_review_test.go	The validator checks bounded NDJSON output, terminal completion, tool-call status, permitted exit codes, and recognized validation errors. PR review invokes it with REVIEW_DIR. Integration fixtures include the executable validator.

Positional workflow-file support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Apply command workflow-file handling cmd/apply.go, cmd/workflow_apply_test.go	The apply command accepts a positional workflow file when no file flag is set. It preserves the legacy positional sandbox-name form when a file is already specified. Tests cover dry-run JSON output and successful execution.
Workflow and local usage documentation README.md	The README documents the supported PR-review workflow, lifecycle, local usage, command forms, credentials, and testing guidance.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4986f

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AI review was intentionally skipped for this refactor: the trusted reviewer runs its script from main, whose 200 KiB guardrail rejects this 213 KiB PR before sandbox creation. The PR adds a bounded 256 KiB guardrail for future reviews, but that change cannot review itself until merged. The ai-review label was removed deliberately; no workflow will re-add it automatically.

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Follow-up implemented in commit 2eaf547:

• Plan and apply dry-run now redact interpolated values at the display boundary in table, JSON, and YAML without changing execution values.
• Caller-supplied review skills are installed at the exact payload source path, with a byte-for-byte check.
• PR-review output validation rejects malformed JSON-looking events, narrows the tolerated comment-position failure, and has regression cases for unrelated 422 output.
• Updated AGENTS.md, README, workflow-format, and CI docs for reference-only providers, trusted workflow inputs, inference admin scope, and -o versus --result-file.

Local validation and PR CI pass; the audit plan remains local at docs/audit-pr-169-follow-up.md.