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- # Project Tiny Context Harness
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+ # Project Tiny Context Harness
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  [![npm version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/project-tiny-context-harness.svg)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/project-tiny-context-harness)
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  [![Package CI](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/actions/workflows/package.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/actions/workflows/package.yml)
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  [![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/badge)](https://securityscorecards.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness)
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  Translations: [Chinese (Simplified)](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/README.zh-CN.md)
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  `project-tiny-context-harness` ships the `ty-context` CLI for Project Tiny Context Harness: repo-native project memory for AI coding agents.
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- The default is **Minimal Context Harness**. It maintains a compact `project_context/**` fact source, a short `AGENTS.md` startup router, role Skills and a `validate-context` gate so fresh agents can recover project intent, constraints, verification entry points and next safe actions quickly.
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+ The default is **Minimal Context Harness**. It maintains a compact `project_context/**` fact source, a short `AGENTS.md` startup router, role Skills and a `validate-context` gate so fresh agents can recover project intent, constraints, verification entry points and next safe actions quickly.
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  It does not default to lifecycle phases, plan tasks, stage skills, stage documents or phase gates. Harness maintains context quality; your project tests, CI, review process and human acceptance remain responsible for product quality.
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  Use it when coding agents repeatedly lose project intent across new chats, handoffs, RFC/debug turns or tool changes. The intended tradeoff is: keep durable intent and recovery paths; leave execution evidence to code, tests and review.
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  ## Why It Exists
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  Coding agents can move quickly inside one thread and still drift when a new chat, model, tool, reviewer or debugging session loses the project-specific facts that were never encoded anywhere stable.
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  Minimal Context Harness creates a small, explicit recovery path: project goal, boundaries, architecture context, validation entry points and durable task conclusions. It is designed to sit beside specs, tests, issues, docs and code intelligence tools instead of replacing them.
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  The core bet is: **keep the memory, drop the ceremony**. Earlier stage-based workflows pushed ordinary software work through explicit phase artifacts and gates. Modern coding agents already internalize much of the understand, design, implement, test and repair loop, so Project Tiny Context Harness keeps the high-density repo context that survives fresh chats without making every task follow Tiny Context-stage choreography.
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  ## Positioning
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- | Spec-first kits | Turning feature ideas into structured specs and plans. | Complementary; Harness keeps durable project facts, not a required spec chain. |
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- | BMAD-style workflows and full Tiny Context processes | Coordinated role/process ceremonies on high-risk work. | Lighter default; no phase gates or work-product trees. |
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- | Task Master-style planners | Backlog decomposition and task execution state. | Complementary; Harness does not own task state. |
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- | Context7/Serena-style retrieval or code-intelligence tools | Pulling external docs, symbols or repository facts on demand. | Complementary; Harness stores local repo truth. |
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- | IDE or agent memory | Tool-specific continuity inside one product surface. | Portable fallback; plain files any agent can read. |
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- ## Try It In 60 Seconds
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+ | Spec-first kits | Turning feature ideas into structured specs and plans. | Complementary; Harness keeps durable project facts, not a required spec chain. |
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+ | BMAD-style workflows and full Tiny Context processes | Coordinated role/process ceremonies on high-risk work. | Lighter default; no phase gates or work-product trees. |
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  `init` creates `project_context/context.toml`, `project_context/global.md`, `project_context/architecture.md`, `project_context/areas/main.md`, `project_context/areas/main/verification.md`, agent guidance, Context authoring Skills, a Product Surface Contract Skill, a full-project export Skill, a Harness upgrade Skill, a plan acceptance checklist Skill, managed templates/tools, a Makefile include and `.github/workflows/harness.yml`. The generated workflow runs only the selected Harness gate: `validate-context`, `validate-code-modularity` or the composite `validate-harness`; maintainer-only package tests and source-drift checks are intentionally kept out of consumer projects. It does not create business Product Surface Contract files, stage work-product trees, lifecycle state or stage skills by default.
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