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The problem
I did a design session with codex web, its outputs are below
Proposed change
Reframe Ward as a governed coding-agent execution layer and finish the driver/workflow/provider seams
Summary
Ward has outgrown the external category of “harness driver.”
That term is still accurate internally: Ward drives agent harnesses/CLIs into constrained execution contexts. But externally, it undersells the product boundary. Ward is not primarily an eval harness, benchmark runner, or toy session manager. It is a governed execution layer for realtime AI-assisted engineering work.
This parent issue tracks the accepted gaps from the architecture review:
Explicitly out of scope for this parent:
Those are intentionally deferred/denied for now.
Current framing problem
The README currently leads with:
That is precise but too narrow.
The stronger external claim is closer to:
or:
or:
“Harness driver” can remain an internal implementation term, but it should not be the first thing a new reader sees.
Desired product framing
Ward should present itself as the runtime/control layer above coding agents:
Ward owns:
The agent owns:
The key positioning distinction:
Scope
1. Rename the external category
Update README/docs language so Ward is not primarily described as a “harness driver.”
Proposed external category:
Possible README opener:
The term
harness drivershould remain valid in lower-level docs where the adapter/launcher implementation is discussed.Acceptance criteria
README first sentence no longer says only “ward is a harness driver.”
README explains Ward as a guarded execution layer for coding agents.
“Harness driver” is preserved as an internal architecture term.
Docs consistently distinguish:
2. Finish manifest-backed adapter lookup
Ward already has the right direction: the fleet manifest should be the single source of per-agent divergence.
The goal is to remove remaining hardcoded driver switches and make the launcher consume the manifest/registry consistently.
Today the fleet records:
The desired state is:
No launch-path behavior should require hardcoded
switch mode { claude, codex, opencode, goose }logic unless it is explicitly transitional and pinned by tests.Expand the adapter model
Current manifest fields are launch-shape oriented. Add capability-shape fields where useful:
Exact schema can differ, but the distinction should be clear:
argvdescribes how to invoke the agent.capabilitiesdescribes what Ward may expect from that agent.Acceptance criteria
agentBinary,contextLevel,hostPreflightArgv, stream handling, and auth shape derive from the fleet/adapter registry.3. Add workflow modes
Ward currently centers the fast path:
That is valid for personal/high-trust repos, but it should not be the only conceptual workflow. Teams will expect different landing policies.
Add explicit workflow modes.
Candidate modes:
direct-mainCurrent behavior.
The agent may carry the issue through commit, merge to main, push, and close.
Intended for:
prThe agent carries the work to a branch/PR instead of landing directly.
Expected lifecycle:
Follow-up loops may handle:
This can start minimal. The first slice does not need to solve all review automation.
patch-onlyThe agent produces a patch/diff/artifact but receives no push authority.
Expected lifecycle:
Useful for:
Interface sketch
Possible CLI surface:
Possible config default:
or:
Acceptance criteria
direct-mainpreserves existing behavior.prdoes not instruct the agent to merge directly to main.patch-onlydoes not grant push authority or instruct the agent to push.4. Continue abstracting Forgejo as a provider boundary
Forgejo-first is correct for the current fleet, but Forgejo should not define Ward’s architecture.
Ward needs a provider boundary around work items and source control operations.
The current system is issue/Forgjo-shaped:
That should be abstracted behind provider concepts.
Work item provider
Sketch:
SCM provider
Sketch:
Exact interfaces should evolve from current code rather than be imposed wholesale. The important boundary is:
not:
Acceptance criteria
Explicit non-goals
Velocity metrics
Do not include velocity instrumentation in this issue.
Potential future metrics such as time-to-land, human intervention count, redispatch count, blocked rate, salvage rate, and wall-clock-to-land are intentionally out of scope.
Model-proxy integration
Do not add model-proxy integration here.
Ward should remain focused on the top driver layer for this parent issue.
Read-only credential hardening
Do not prioritize dispatch-only credentials or deeper read-only credential isolation in this issue.
Known soft edges may remain documented, but this parent does not track fixing them.
Suggested breakout issues
--workflow direct-main|pr|patch-only.patch-onlyas the first non-direct workflow.pras branch + PR creation, without review-loop automation.Done when
Ward’s public story reads as:
and the implementation supports that story by having:
At that point, “harness driver” remains true, but it is no longer the category Ward is trying to win.
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Before filing
the ecosystem:
https://github.com/kingjulio8238/swarm-code
https://github.com/dsifry/metaswarm
https://github.com/nwiizo/ccswarm
https://github.com/stravu/crystal
https://github.com/nutthouse/tutti
https://github.com/AgentWrapper/agent-orchestrator
https://github.com/RunMaestro/Maestro
https://github.com/smtg-ai/claude-squad
https://github.com/asheshgoplani/agent-deck
https://github.com/johannesjo/parallel-code
https://github.com/preset-io/agor
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ward agent --driver claude— containerengineer-claude-ward-508on hostKAI-DESKTOP-TOWERis carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-03T06:33:52Z). Concurrentward agentruns are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL);--forceoverrides.— Claude (she/her), via
ward agentWARD-OUTCOME: done - shipped
--workflow direct-main|pr|patch-onlyand reframed ward's external category as a guarded coding-agent execution layer; deferred scopes 2 & 4 filed as #552 and #553.Candid retro: this "parent" was really four issues wearing one hat, with ten breakouts listed in its own body. So I didn't try to do all of it - I landed the two slices that are concrete and testable end to end (workflow modes + the README/architecture reframe) and filed the two genuine refactors as their own issues (#552 capability manifest fields, which needs an upstream cli-guard
fleetconfigchange; #553 the WorkItem/SCM provider boundary). That felt like the honest read of a tracking issue rather than a cop-out.The part that fought back was the reaper. Adding a
--workflow patch-onlyflag that then let the deterministic reaper force-pushmainon teardown would have been a quiet footgun - the flag would lie. So the reaper now readsWARD_WORKFLOWand preserves a pr/patch-only run's residual work on a salvage branch instead of landing it. That coupling wasn't obvious from the issue text; it's the bit I'm most glad I caught.Two smaller frictions: the
code-commentspre-commit cap made me reflow a handful of unrelated Windows/Unix-guard comment blocks to land green without--no-verify, and those promptly collided on merge with a sibling branch that had reflowed the exact same lines (took theirs). And FEATURES.md brushed its char cap after the merge, so my bullet got trimmed twice.Confidence: high on the seam itself - flag parse, seed carry-clause, reflection landing phrase, env, label,
--print, and the reaper guard are all unit-tested, and direct-main is a thin wrapper so existing behavior is byte-for-byte unchanged (the old seed tests still pass untouched). Lower, unavoidably, on the live pr/patch-only container runs, since I can't drive a real agent container from here - the contract is enforced at the prompt + reaper layers, not yet at the credential layer.Rough edges I wrote into docs/agent-workflow.md and worth a follow-up: patch-only is prompt+reaper enforced, not credential-scoped (that's the deferred read-only-credential hardening), and a pr/patch-only reaper hold currently reads as a slightly noisy salvage rather than a clean "held by policy" outcome.