Project Tiny Context Harness

Project Tiny Context Harness 0.8.0 is the current public release line under the renamed npm package:

npm install -D project-tiny-context-harness@latest
npx --yes --package project-tiny-context-harness@latest ty-context init
make validate-context

Update mode: sync-only. After updating the package, run:

npx --yes --package project-tiny-context-harness@latest ty-context upgrade --check
npx --yes --package project-tiny-context-harness@latest ty-context upgrade

This release mode means no new release migration is expected. Direct sync is an allowed shortcut only when you explicitly want managed-asset refresh without upgrade diagnostics:

npx --yes --package project-tiny-context-harness@latest ty-context sync

Sync does not run migrations. Upgrade plans report safe_pending, manual_required and blocked.

Publishing a new npm version does not automatically migrate existing repositories. Users receive new upgrade behavior only when they run the newly published CLI through ty-context upgrade, ty-context sync or another @latest package invocation.

What Changed

• Publishes [email protected] with the synchronized package assets and CLI build.
• Keeps the install path on the renamed package: project-tiny-context-harness.
• Adds the explicit-only /design-system-authoring cold-start flow for generating, selecting and adopting Open Design systems into canonical project Design Authority.
• Gates only style-bearing /design-resource-authoring work on configured Design Authority, verifies Open Design project binding, and reconciles accepted final decisions into the initial proposal once.
• Sends revised proposals and selected resources directly into /long-task-workflow's Source-bound Contract Draft loop; Source completeness and Contract mapping converge there without an internal Source-authoring stage, while /source-plan-authoring remains only a retired compatibility pointer.
• Keeps the authority boundary explicit: provider candidates and bindings are provenance, while DESIGN.md, its one authored token source and owning project_context/** remain canonical.
• Makes package updates explicit through release update modes: sync-only, upgrade-required, manual-required.

Boundary

This release does not claim benchmark-proven speedups, production adoption, awards, or replacement of tests, CI, review, specs or project management. It packages the smaller recovery surface: keep the memory, drop the ceremony.

Useful Links

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/project-tiny-context-harness
• README: https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness#readme
• Fresh-agent recovery walkthrough: https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/docs/examples/fresh-agent-recovery.md
• Minimal Context sample: https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/docs/examples/minimal-context-sample.md
• Comparison guide: https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/docs/comparison.md