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- # Project Tiny Context Harness
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- [![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/LICENSE)
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- [![Open in GitHub Codespaces](https://img.shields.io/badge/open%20in-Codespaces-181717?logo=github)](https://codespaces.new/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 is repo-native project memory for AI coding agents, plus a narrow delivery harness for trustworthy long-task completion. The product principle is: keep the memory, drop the ceremony. It adds durable project memory behind `AGENTS.md` without becoming an agent scheduler or Git orchestrator.
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- Public launch surfaces are English-first; localized documents are secondary entry points.
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- Best for:
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- ```text
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- Before: ask a fresh agent to read the repo and tell you what matters.
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- What gets added:
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- ```mermaid
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- A["Fresh agent session"] --> B["AGENTS.md startup router"]
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- ![Project Tiny Context Harness terminal demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/main/docs/launch/assets/demo-terminal.gif)
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- The demo shows the core loop: initialize `AGENTS.md` and `project_context/**`, run `validate-context`, then ask a fresh agent to recover intent before proposing code. Use the npm install path below, or inspect the no-install previews first.
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- - Read the [fresh-agent recovery walkthrough](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/docs/examples/fresh-agent-recovery.md).
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- - Inspect the [Minimal Context sample guide](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/docs/examples/minimal-context-sample.md).
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- - Browse the tiny generated repository at [examples/minimal-context-sample/](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/tree/main/examples/minimal-context-sample).
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- ## Why It Exists
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- `project_context/**` preserves small durable facts across sessions. The default workflow reads graph-relevant Context, supplements that route with one bounded Context search before `Context Delta`, and uses the platform's internal plan. For explicit long work, `long-task-delivery-v2` adds one complete Contract authority, compiled Source/REQ/CTRL/OBL/AC coverage, a one-time user model choice after Authority Lock, scoped progress and a source-recompiled Live Final Gate.
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- Minimal Context preserves durable facts, the Workflow Contract governs ordinary work, and the Long-Task Workflow adds explicit machine completion authority.
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- Tiny Context does not invoke or switch models, create agents, branches or worktrees, merge, push, create PRs, deploy, or replace project tests and human acceptance.
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- ## Install And Initialize
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- ```powershell
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- - **Long delivery:** initial product intent or detailed external/Web GPT proposal → explicitly run `/design-system-authoring` if project Design Authority is absent → `/design-resource-authoring` selects resources and reconciles accepted decisions into the proposal once → pass the revised proposal plus selected immutable resources to `/long-task-workflow`, which performs integrated Source and Contract Draft authoring in the same Goal.
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- Technical architecture support is a Minimal Context capability. For high-risk work, `Architecture Context Hit`, `Decision Rationale Hit: existing|required|none` and `Modularity Check: none|required|exception` are internal routing questions inside the platform's internal plan. No Task Contract or fixed `plan.md` is required. The risk-triggered gate covers durable module/capability boundaries, public API/schema/data or persistence, source-of-truth/state ownership, dependency direction, cross-area work, migration/security/recovery and reusable abstractions; it resolves owner, unique source of truth, lifecycle/failure/compatibility, forbidden shortcuts and a project-owned executable architecture check. Small fixes do not pay this ceremony.
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+ ![Project Tiny Context Harness terminal demo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/main/docs/launch/assets/demo-terminal.gif)
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+ The demo shows the core loop: initialize `AGENTS.md` and `project_context/**`, run `validate-context`, then ask a fresh agent to recover intent before proposing code. Use the npm install path below, or inspect the no-install previews first.
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+ - Inspect the [Minimal Context sample guide](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/blob/main/docs/examples/minimal-context-sample.md).
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+ ## Why It Exists
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+ `project_context/**` preserves small durable facts across sessions. The default workflow reads graph-relevant Context, supplements that route with one bounded Context search before `Context Delta`, and uses the platform's internal plan. For explicit long work, `long-task-delivery-v2` adds one complete Contract authority, compiled Source/REQ/CTRL/OBL/AC coverage, a one-time user model choice after Authority Lock, scoped progress and a source-recompiled Live Final Gate.
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+ Minimal Context preserves durable facts, the Workflow Contract governs ordinary work, and the Long-Task Workflow adds explicit machine completion authority.
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+ Tiny Context does not invoke or switch models, create agents, branches or worktrees, merge, push, create PRs, deploy, or replace project tests and human acceptance.
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+ ## Install And Initialize
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+ ```powershell
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+ npx --yes project-tiny-context-harness ty-context doctor
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+ ```
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+ Default profiles are `core-portable` and `workflow-default`; the base managed set includes explicitly invoked `/design-system-authoring` and `/design-resource-authoring`. Explicitly enable long-task support:
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+ ## Recommended Usage
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+ - **Long delivery:** initial product intent or detailed external/Web GPT proposal → explicitly run `/design-system-authoring` if project Design Authority is absent → `/design-resource-authoring` selects resources, completely freezes an implementation-level source when needed, reconciles accepted decisions once and emits a validated residual `design-resource-handoff-v1` → pass the revised proposal plus selected immutable resources and the validated handoff to `/long-task-workflow`; those inputs enter one Source-bound Contract Draft loop immediately in the same Goal.
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+ - **Non-long delivery:** use the same path, then give the revised proposal plus selected immutable resources and the validated handoff directly to the current native Goal under the default Workflow Contract.
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+ ## Positioning
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+ | Spec-first kits | Turning a feature idea into structured specs and plans. | Complementary; Harness keeps durable repo facts beyond one feature spec. |
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+ | BMAD-style workflows and full Tiny Context processes | Role/process ceremony for selected work. | Lighter default; ordinary work stays Context-first. |
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+ | Task Master-style planners | Backlog decomposition and task state. | Complementary; Harness does not own backlog state. |
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+ ## Try It In 60 Seconds
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+ ### Source checkout preview:
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+ Open <https://codespaces.new/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness>, or run locally:
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+ Use this tarball path for source-preview testing, private review or package development. For normal installs, use `project-tiny-context-harness@latest` from npm. If it fails, open a [Source preview report](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/issues/new?template=source_preview_report.yml).
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+ ## Minimal Context And Default Workflow
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+ Only near-universal recovery facts should use `read_policy = "default"`; specialized detail should be task-triggered `on-demand`. `ty-context doctor` reports the deterministic default Context footprint, soft-budget overages, byte-identical default files and `DESIGN.md` authority status as advisory maintenance signals, not a new gate.
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+ Technical architecture support is a shared Workflow obligation. Every implementation delivery visibly completes `Architecture Deliberation` before its first implementation edit. Risk changes depth, not occurrence. A small change names the concrete owner/current extension point, confirms durable boundaries remain unchanged and explains why it adds or worsens no debt. Material work additionally covers the unique source of truth, dependency and interface/state/lifecycle boundaries, failure/recovery/compatibility, selected and rejected alternatives, one plausible future change and its extension point, touched technical debt, forbidden shortcuts and project-owned executable checks. `Architecture Context Hit`, `Decision Rationale Hit: existing|required|none` and `Modularity Check: none|required|exception` remain internal routing questions; no Task Contract or fixed `plan.md` is required.
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+ After implementation and project verification, `Architecture Conformance` checks the current candidate for scope/path escape, owner or dependency-direction violations, service/facade bypass, duplicate authority or a second source of truth, undeclared API/schema/state/persistence change, missing architecture checks and new or worsened debt. A changed candidate invalidates the result. Default work embeds this closure in Contract Conformance; Long-Task work encodes material invariants with existing obligations/constraints/forbidden shortcuts, owners/paths/Bindings and executable Checks and lets Final Gate be the sole closure owner. The two closures never both run for one candidate.
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+ Contract Conformance asks whether current Source and Context reached implementation and verification; the separately named Context drift check asks whether implementation or a new decision made durable Context stale. New or worsened debt blocks handoff unless the project has an explicit bounded exception with owner, rationale, tracking and a removal condition. Unrelated legacy debt does not automatically expand task scope, but debt touched, relied on or worsened by the change cannot remain hidden.
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+ The visible checkpoint proves that architecture consideration occurred; it does not expose private chain-of-thought, guarantee the best design or anticipate every unknowable future request. Store stable reasons, rejected alternatives or tradeoffs only in the smallest durable Context surface. Harness routes repository-native checks rather than becoming a language-generic architecture analyzer or adding architecture artifact/state. Modularity diagnostics identify the highest-risk function and line.
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+ An explicit Long-Task resolves missing/conflicting UI authority before Compile, then preserves every applicable Control field through the existing projection: surface, region/location, type/label, user task, visibility/availability, trigger/input/validation/default, interaction/navigation, loading/empty/success/failure/recovery/permission/feedback and accessibility. Each non-empty field is an independent Source-backed Control Claim and protected product semantic; omitted fields create no Claim. Aggregated Product `surface_bindings` connect every Control to an owner surface, required product target, existing Technical route/component Bindings and a root-entry success journey. Selected exact/constraint targets bind frozen inputs and declared conditions to current actual/comparison artifacts through typed `design_conformance`; `verification_method_bindings` make every handoff method independently falsifiable, and every declared blocker preserves exact Source-item/method lineage into target-local machine proof or a target-blocking external confirmation. A blocker cannot be dismissed in-band: scope removal requires revised Source/Contract authority. Existing Claim, Assertion, Check, Stage, Binding, revision and Final Gate mechanisms remain the only lifecycle.
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+ The Skill makes the explicit output or development content its hard ceiling; a local slice includes only necessary surrounding context. For an implementation handoff it accounts for material UI/UX meaning through relevant surfaces/flows/regions/components/controls and applicable visual/content, state, interaction/feedback/motion, responsive/platform/input, accessibility and asset conditions, then subtracts only explicit selected-source coverage. It discovers current Open Design capabilities and assigns every considered resource a reasoned `selected`, `optional`, `not-needed`, `unavailable` or `decision-required` disposition.
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+ Actual generation remains with configured Open Design/Product Design, Figma, image-generation, prototype or human systems. Their outputs enter the default Workflow or Long-Task as ordinary external Source. Candidates and inspiration authorize no fidelity. An adopted exact target/constraint becomes Context-reachable Source: owning Context/`DESIGN.md` maps its stable key to declared conditions, a stable immutable identity/digest and an editable upstream owner/locator/update route. `context_uiux_design` performs downstream UI Authority Closure; implementation renders and diffs remain evidence rather than self-authorizing targets.
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+ Maintainers may set `TY_CONTEXT_OPEN_DESIGN_MCP_COMMAND` plus optional `TY_CONTEXT_OPEN_DESIGN_MCP_ARGS_JSON` and run `npm run smoke:open-design` for an opt-in, read-only discovery smoke. Normal tests use a local mock MCP and do not depend on Open Design or nondeterministic output.
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+ Post-lock revisions separate authority change from user decision while retaining exact identity, old-Authority continuity, compare-and-swap adoption, evidence invalidation and the complete Final Gate. Formally monotonic strengthening; raw Source/Context snapshot changes with unchanged locked Claims/targets/proof obligations; operational Runner/input/environment repair; repository-bound scope expansion; risk strengthening; and equivalent Counterfactual coverage with the same carrier, mutation and Check and no lost Claim/assertion-failure coverage auto-adopt. Product/Source Claim/target/external-confirmation changes, lost scenario/Claim/Evidence Capability/failure interception, forbidden or owner-Context removal, runner type/effect changes, verifier-kernel changes and unknown reasons are preview-only and require the exact revision identity; risk downgrade is rejected. `diagnose-revision` remains side-effect-free and can exercise eligible scope candidates, so withdrawn/replaced candidates coalesce in the same `delivery-contract.yaml` and never ask. The final pending decision begins with a plain-language Authority Revision introduction and separates `user_decision_reasons` from mechanically bounded changes. Present it first. An explicit current-task instruction that exactly covers every listed decision reason may be mechanically relayed without a second question; generic continue, blanket approval, recommendation or Agent inference does not count. Exact identity, previous-Authority continuity, evidence invalidation and the complete Final Gate apply to every adoption, which reports `delivery_completed_by_this_event: false`, returns to rolling implementation or repair and never means delivery completion.
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+ ```text
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+ ty-context long-task approve-authority-revision <workdir> --revision <sha>
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+ ty-context long-task explain <workdir>
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+ Compact authoring omits only deterministic defaults and normalizes identically to the expanded form. `preflight` is a read-only aggregated Source/REQ/CTRL/OBL/AC and repository check. Before first Authority Lock, Preflight and direct Compile both classify every HEAD-relative changed path as protected, expected change, allowed support, forbidden or unclassified; forbidden and unclassified paths block, so Compile cannot bypass Preflight. During first enable, only exact current package-asset files for configured managed destinations plus exact config/hook files are temporarily protected; managed directory roots and broad `.codex/**` are never exempt. Compile then generates Global plus Outcome Result/Requirement/Control-field/Non-completing/Technical Claims, rejects uncovered Claims and makes the first successful formal Compile the Authority Lock. Every Compile result includes a lifecycle event, `delivery_completed_by_this_event: false`, `native_goal_effect: none` and a next action. The first Compile result emits `execution_model_checkpoint.required: true` plus its terminal-turn/explicit-choice contract; later Compile revisions emit `required: false`. Every later authority change still compares with active authority regardless of progress, Receipt/cache deletion or implementation restoration. Source/Context/Product/Acceptance/Global/verifier content, resolved runners and verification inputs are frozen in the common-dir Active Authority V3 record.
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+ `diagnose-revision` performs a side-effect-free candidate Compile and only exercises existing active Check identities whose runner/verifier authority is unchanged. Its output explicitly denies acceptance, Progress and pending-state writes. `compile --revise` auto-adopts mechanically bounded revisions; for a user-decision revision it emits `authority_revision_pending`, the exact decision id, deterministic material summary, `user_decision_reasons` and the self-contained human `decision_brief` before failing closed. Approving a different or stale id is rejected. Adoption emits `authority_revision_adopted` and returns to rolling execution rather than completion.
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+ Targeted verify rechecks active task/revision/compiled/worktree identity and applies the same workspace categories against the immutable baseline before writing scoped Progress. `verify --explain` groups selected Main Raw Executions, lists applicable Counterfactual calls and declared retry bounds, but runs nothing and writes no Progress. Counterfactual Findings first enter the owning Check Result, invalidate an otherwise passed Check, clear Claim Proofs and remain visible in status/resume; Global Checks reuse the same Progress type without a Global Outcome state. Final Gate repeats the identity check after all Checks; Stop/close clear only the accepted identity through CAS. Commit, migration, clear and abandon share one active-state lock. `abandon --force-corrupt-state` is reserved for corrupt continuity or stale lock cleanup and preserves Contract, Source, Context and Git content.
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+ New authoring uses inline Outcomes. Existing `outcome_files` remains physical compatibility only and creates no semantic or completion boundary. A Long Task requires real Source, and every declared Source file contains at least one Material Item; background-only references remain outside Source Authority. Every Material Source Item is wrapped in the original Markdown with a non-rendering, uniquely keyed `ty-source-item:start/end` marker; `control` is a first-class kind, marker keys and `source_claim` keys are set-equal, and statements are text-exact after limited whitespace normalization. Every non-decision Source item owns one same-kind, same-text canonical target and duplicate ownership fails. Outcome Source Acceptance maps to criterion-identical `<outcome>.<check>.<assertion>` with an independently Source-backed non-Result Claim; Global Source Acceptance maps to criterion-identical `GLOBAL.<check>.<assertion>`, proves no Outcome Claim and needs an independently Source-backed Global Claim. Typed dispositions keep Requirements, Controls, Acceptance, Results, Fact/Affected-Outcome Risk, Non-goals, External Confirmations and Decisions distinct; `out_of_scope` is retired. Ordinary prose remains valid after marker-only enumeration.
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+ After Authority Lock, semantic/Product Claim/Acceptance/verifier-kernel changes and proof weakening require an exact user decision. Mechanically bounded implementation repairs and raw snapshot changes that preserve locked meaning auto-revise but still invalidate affected evidence. Pure package root/version relocation auto-revises; schema/hook byte changes do not. Contract and Check execution field policies prevent new fields from bypassing authority or raw-execution identity. Every path-bearing field uses one canonical grammar: Windows separators and one leading `./` normalize, while internal `.`/`..`, controls, absolute/drive/UNC paths and unsupported glob syntax fail closed.
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+ Supported runners: `package_script`, `project_binary`, `node_oracle`, `playwright_test`.
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+ After a blocker-driven semantic or proof revision, only affected weak-observability or high-risk behavioral Claims receive a causal-boundary review. Evidence must reach the furthest independently failing declared boundary; when carrier existence can diverge from the claimed capability, use a capability-disrupting Counterfactual. This adds no product taxonomy, universal runtime suite, mutation type or persistent review state.
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+ L0 local work stays on the default workflow. L1 standard long work uses the Delivery Contract. L2 strict is the minimum for public API/schema, persistent data, migration, security/permission boundaries, irreversible effects, full-population operations, or a critical path with weak observability. Strict proof binds to the affected Outcome; multi-repository delivery is rejected.
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+ Users may raise risk to strict. Explicit `standard` below the computed floor fails. Strict negative, counterfactual, population, security, environment and rollback/recovery proof is compiler-enforced as applicable. Scope escape returns a `scope_escape` Finding for revision and recompilation in the same Goal.
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+ Agent prose, a command exit code, handwritten state, historical targeted passes and missing/weak proof cannot create accepted. Evidence adapters derive from runner kind: only `playwright_json_v1` from `playwright_test` may prove `ui_browser`; other runners produce `structured_json_v2`. Every Outcome has a non-Result atomic Claim and all required surfaces must be non-empty, unique and covered. Across every Check sharing one Raw Execution identity, a Claim-bearing Observation is unique to one Assertion. Playwright Claim evidence is only `playwright.case.<ac>.passed equals true`; `[ac:<key>]` binds one declared AC per Test, ordinary tags are ignored, and missing/skipped/flaky/unexpected/timed-out/interrupted/multi-AC/duplicate-per-project evidence fails closed while distinct projects aggregate all-of. Structured Counterfactuals require exit zero; weak Playwright Counterfactuals may accept exit one only when every unexpected Test Instance is exactly a designated executed AC and no root/unbound/extra/timeout/interruption/flaky or other Evidence failure exists. Ordinary Playwright Baselines still require exit zero, and report/instance diagnostic observations cannot prove Claims. Each Claim-bearing structured Check needs same-Check, Claim-related Counterfactual sensitivity; unrelated Artifacts/Checks do not count, Population exempts only its same-Check Claims except under weak observability, and Result sensitivity needs a related non-Result root. Claim/Population proofs are emitted only for a fully passed Check. Findings and Explain trace Source, canonical target, Claim, AC/criterion, required surfaces, Check, adapter, Observation and owner paths.
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+ Feedback from real repositories is especially useful. Open an [adoption report](https://github.com/Seven128/project-tiny-context-harness/issues/new?template=adoption_report.yml) with the recovery problem and what remained unclear.
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