[docs] Reposition from coding agents to agent harnesses

[NiveditJain]

Why

Everyone reading failproofai concludes we are a coding-agent tool. We are not — we
are observability and enforcement for agent harnesses, and coding CLIs are one
of three classes we hook.

A deep audit across this repo, the landing site and AgentEye found 199 findings
over 12 surfaces, but the diagnosis is narrower than that number suggests: the
perception is manufactured by about fifteen strings, and the breadth evidence
already exists and is already correct underneath them. README's twelve-logo grid
already contains Hermes (Slack/Telegram gateway) and OpenClaw (self-hosted
assistant) — under a heading that called them CLIs. docs/reference/harnesses.mdx
has been titled "Agent harnesses" the whole time. INTEGRATION_TYPES is twelve
names, two of which were never coding tools.

So "harness" is promoted here, not invented — the only version of this move
that survives an engineer reading src/hooks/types.ts.

What changed

Identity strings — the README hero, package.json description and keywords,
SECURITY.md, and the types.ts header. Each names the harness and defines it
ostensively on first use with at least one example that is not a terminal.

README structure — "Supported agent CLIs" becomes "Supported harnesses" (the
grid below it is unchanged; only the label converted breadth back into coding-CLI
proof). "Session visibility", three lines out of 221, becomes a real
Observability section covering the free local dashboard and Failproof AI
Observability. The documentation table splits into Start / Observe / Enforce /
Instrument your own agent — every row previously pointed at an enforcement page
while the docs site leads with the observability tabs. The "what it stops" table
is reselected to span harness classes, keeping block-rm-rf and block-force-push
as the developer favourites they are.

Docs — index, quickstart (now branches for harness vs Python SDK before the
Node.js prerequisite disqualifies a non-coding reader), reference/harnesses, and
two sessions/ captions. reference/harnesses is promoted onto the onboarding
path in all fifteen locale navs: it is the only page answering which kinds of
agent are covered, and it sat in the sixth and last tab.

Product copy — the local dashboard's policies page, the CLI wizard and manager
headers, the audit report output, and the 20 share templates (the company's
most-shared user-generated copy, which said "my coding agent" thirteen times).

Counts, and the guard

Three counts had rotted silently: README advertised 30 built-in policies in
three places; the real number is 40. Verified from source before writing any
copy — 12 harnesses, 40 policies, 29 canonical events, PreToolUse blocking on all
twelve harnesses, Stop blocking on eight of them.

__tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts derives all of these from types.ts,
builtin-policies.ts and enforcement-capability.ts and fails when prose
disagrees. It also asserts the README names no harness absent from
INTEGRATION_TYPES — which is what makes the twelve-harness claim checkable by
the engineer most likely to check it — and that Hermes and OpenClaw stay named,
since dropping them would silently remove the breadth claim's evidence.

Unrelated bug fixed on the way

The fourteen translation links resolved to the frozen docs-old i18n tree, left
behind when the Mintlify site replaced it (109e3725), while translate-docs.yml
writes the docs i18n tree (last updated 54d95ed6). The two sets had already
diverged, so every non-English reader got a README the pipeline would never update
again. Repointed, and the drift guard asserts the target.

Follow-ups not in this PR

• FailproofAI/agenteye#629 — the landing site names Gemini CLI, deep agents
  and langgraph (none in INTEGRATION_TYPES) and omits Factory, Devin and
  Antigravity (all of which ship). Needs a build-or-remove decision.
• The landing site and AgentEye carry the same counts and the same category noun;
  those edits are prepared separately.
• Structural, not copy: about 28 of the 40 builtins are shell/git/infra-shaped,
  and the governance policies shown in hooks.png (pii_redaction,
  content_safety_check, rate_limiter, budget_guard) are demo data, not
  shipped. A gateway operator persuaded by this copy reaches the catalog and finds
  nothing aimed at them.

Testing

• bun run test:run — 209 files, 3888 passed, 10 skipped
• tsc --noEmit — clean
• eslint — 0 errors
• New: __tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts, 10 tests

Translations

English lands first; the localized doc trees and translated READMEs are
regenerated by translate-docs.yml, never hand-edited. Before that run, add
"harness" to the translator glossary and check de, ja, zh and ko — they rendered
"coding agents" most idiomatically last time, and an unglossed "harness" comes back
as "framework" or "tool", re-manufacturing this exact problem in fourteen
languages. docs.json nav labels are structure, not prose, and were hand-applied
to all fifteen blocks in this PR.

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Hermes review

Field	Value
Status	Approved
Reviewed commit	c07493935b3572b76fe87e39f3799e0b0c114d0b
Policy revision	1d8f31d926828f3bae215c58f5b35baa44acbff0
Model	gpt-5.6-terra
Duration	242s
Updated	2026-08-20T08:20:42.145599502+00:00

Summary

The PR broadens product positioning, corrects SDK enforcement messaging, and adds copy drift checks. One medium-confidence documentation correctness issue remains: it overstates policy applicability across harnesses with different event support.

Changes

• Repositions public, security, dashboard, and audit copy around agent harnesses.
• Expands onboarding and localized navigation for supported harnesses and the Python SDK boundary.
• Adds source-derived checks for counts, harness names, translation links, and enforcement totals.
• Corrects audit-report language so audit-only detections are not described as real-time blocks.

Validation

• Passed docker run --rm --network=none -v /review/input/workspace:/workspace:ro -w /workspace oven/bun:latest sh -lc 'bun -e ...' — Parsed docs/docs.json and verified all 14 README translation targets plus all 14 localized harness-guide files. (4s)
• Skipped docker run --rm -v /review/input/workspace:/workspace -w /workspace oven/bun:latest sh -lc 'bun install --frozen-lockfile && bun run test:run __tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts' — The isolated container could not install dependencies because package-registry connections were refused, leaving Vitest unavailable; this is harness infrastructure, not attributable to the PR. (31s)

Findings

No blocking findings.

1 advisory finding

• Medium/High Qualify the claim that every policy applies to every harness — README.md:33 says the "same policies" apply whichever harness an agent runs in; docs/index.mdx:9 and docs/reference/harnesses.mdx:12 repeat it. However, Hermes maps only five native events and emits no Stop event (src/hooks/types.ts:153-168), while the five require-*-before-stop built-ins subscribe to Stop (src/hooks/builtin-policies.ts:2535-2606). The capability model explicitly says those policies are inapplicable on Hermes (src/hooks/types.ts:148-149). (README.md:33)

Open questions

None.

Policy overrides

None.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Repositioned messaging around observability and enforcement across 12 agent harnesses.
  • Added guidance for dashboards, audits, hosted fleet observability, and Python SDK integrations.
  • Updated quickstarts, harness references, session documentation, security guidance, and translated navigation links.
  • Corrected supported harness and built-in policy counts.
• Improvements
  • Updated terminology to reference agents and harnesses more broadly.
  • Clarified audit report messaging and sharing templates.
• Quality
  • Added checks for documented counts, harness names, and translation links.

Review round

CodeRabbit surfaced one inconsistency I had introduced and two pre-existing
inaccuracies, all fixed in 529f20bc:

• The three-class split disagreed with itself. README called the third class
  "agent runtimes"; types.ts, reference/harnesses.mdx and the landing
  llms.txt all call it "your own agents through the Python SDK" and put Factory,
  Devin, Antigravity and Goose in the coding-CLI class. README was the odd one
  out. This matters more than a wording nit — the repositioning rests on the class
  split reading the same everywhere someone checks.
• The audit report overstated its findings. The TL;DR line users paste
  publicly said the agent did N things "failproofai would have stopped", but
  totalHits folds in detectorRows (source audit-detector) — replay-only
  findings with no builtin behind them, whose fix column renders audit-only and
  which the slipping-through section already labels "caught by audit, not
  blocked". Now "caught", which is true of both halves.
• And understated its coverage — the footer named six integrations while
  runAuditInner defaults to all twelve.
• The types.ts comment claimed the guard asserts "every count in user-facing
  copy"; it pins five derived numbers and scans three files. Comment now says so.
• Fixed a pre-existing typo in the translation nav: Руссий → Русский.

Re-verified after: 209 files, 3888 tests passing, tsc clean.

Second round: the Python SDK was not one of the twelve

CodeRabbit's README finding was right, and chasing it down surfaced a worse error
underneath it. The copy said "twelve harnesses across three classes — coding CLIs,
chat gateways, and your own agents through the Python SDK. Same events, same
policies, same session history."

Both halves were wrong. The arithmetic: the twelve are ten coding CLIs plus
two gateways, so an SDK-instrumented agent is not among them and is not a third
class of them — it is a separate door. The capability:
docs/reference/python-sdk.mdx has always stated that preventing an unsafe action
"also requires an enforcement hook in your runtime". The SDK reports events; it
does not sit in the tool-call path. So it delivers tracing, sessions, evaluations
and audits without enforcement, and "same policies" was false for that door.

This is precisely the failure mode this PR exists to prevent — a reader who
follows "same policies" to the SDK page finds it contradicted in the first
paragraph, and the whole broader claim loses credibility with it. Corrected in
README, docs/index, quickstart, reference/harnesses and the types.ts header.
The same correction is applied to the landing site in
FailproofAI/platform#515 (e3661d6), which matters more there: llms.txt and
schema.org are read by systems that will never see the correction.

The drift guard grew from 10 tests to 14 and now asserts what its comment
promised rather than a subset:

• every translation link resolves to a file on disk — the previous check only
  ruled out the frozen tree, so a typo'd locale still passed;
• every shipped harness appears on the harnesses page by display name, with the
  map keyed exhaustively off INTEGRATION_TYPES so a new integration fails the
  test until it is documented;
• the enforcement split printed in the quickstart matches ENFORCEMENT_CAPABILITY;
• no copy can describe the Python SDK as carrying policies.

Both CodeRabbit threads answered and resolved. Re-verified: 209 files, 3892
tests passing, tsc clean, 0 lint errors, landing next build clean.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The release updates reposition Failproof around observability and enforcement across agent harnesses. Documentation, navigation, package metadata, interface copy, security scope, audit output, and source-backed validation now reflect 12 harnesses and 40 built-in policies.

Changes

Agent harness positioning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Harness documentation and count validation README.md, __tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts, docs/..., src/hooks/types.ts	Documentation now describes harness integrations, shared sessions, canonical events, observability, enforcement, and Python SDK reporting. Tests validate harness and policy counts, names, and translation links.
Product metadata and interface copy package.json, app/..., src/audit/report.ts, src/hooks/..., SECURITY.md	Product metadata, security text, audit output, hook descriptions, policy text, and share templates now use broader agent and harness terminology.
Release documentation CHANGELOG.md	The changelog records the beta release, documentation updates, corrected translation links, and corrected audit report wording.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c2af8

The PR may lead readers to expect the Python SDK to block policy violations when it currently provides observability, audit, and session history without enforcing policies on its own; the copy guard also does not cover every enforcement claim. Merge should wait for these limitations to be clarified or explicitly accepted by the owner.

Possibly related PRs

• FailproofAI/failproofai#517: Both changes update multilingual documentation navigation.
• FailproofAI/failproofai#683: Both changes update harness terminology and related documentation.

Suggested labels: enhancement

Suggested reviewers: hermes-exosphere

Poem

A rabbit reads the harness guide,

With policy counts aligned beside.
Traces hop through every flow,
Dashboards tell what agents know.
Translation links now point just right.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly covers purpose, scope, testing, translations, follow-ups, and review findings, but it does not reproduce the template headings or checklist.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The description includes relevant cross-repository issue and pull request references for known follow-up work and related corrections.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The translation-link and audit-report fixes support documentation accuracy and remain related to the repositioning objective.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise, specific, and accurately summarizes the PR's repositioning from coding agents to agent harnesses.

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Hermes

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Verdict	Approved
Head	c07493935b35
Rounds	0 of 5

The PR broadens product positioning, corrects SDK enforcement messaging, and adds copy drift checks. One medium-confidence documentation correctness issue remains: it overstates policy applicability across harnesses with different event support.

What this changes

flowchart LR
    n0Publicproductmessaging["~ Public product messaging"]
    n1Documentationonboarding["~ Documentation onboarding"]
    n2Localizeddocumentationnavigation["~ Localized documentation navigation"]
    n3Harnesscapabilitymodel["Harness capability model"]
    n4Copyintegrityguard["+ Copy integrity guard"]
    n5Auditreporting["~ Audit reporting"]
    n6PolicymanagementUI["~ Policy management UI"]
    n3Harnesscapabilitymodel -- "derived counts and capabilities" --> n4Copyintegrityguard
    n4Copyintegrityguard -- "validates public claims" --> n0Publicproductmessaging
    n3Harnesscapabilitymodel -- "defines supported events" --> n1Documentationonboarding
    n2Localizeddocumentationnavigation -- "routes locale onboarding" --> n1Documentationonboarding
    n5Auditreporting -- "shares audit claims" --> n0Publicproductmessaging
    n6PolicymanagementUI -- "installs integration hooks" --> n3Harnesscapabilitymodel

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0	ca0064fc54d6	eeed712db9c6 ca0064fc54d6	Approved
0	c2af86a722cb	529f20bc0e4a c2af86a722cb	Approved
0	c07493935b35	c07493935b35	Approved

Findings

Open

• F2 Qualify the claim that every policy applies to every harness (README.md) — round 1

Resolved

• F1 Do not promise policy enforcement to SDK-only agents (docs/index.mdx) — round 1

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

1 advisory finding

• Medium/High Do not promise built-in policy enforcement for Python SDK agents — The new docs say agents with no harness report through the Python SDK and that “the same policies” apply to all of them (docs/index.mdx:9); the harness reference and README make the same claim. However, docs/reference/python-sdk.mdx states that the SDK provides tracing and auditing only, and that preventing an unsafe action requires a separate runtime enforcement hook. An operator who only instruments a custom agent with this SDK can therefore believe a policy blocks a tool call when it merely records the run. (docs/index.mdx:9)

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

1 advisory finding

• Medium/High Do not promise built-in policies to Python SDK-only agents — docs/index.mdx:9 says agents without a harness report through the Python SDK and that “the same events, the same policies, and the same session history apply to all of them.” docs/reference/harnesses.mdx:11-13 and README.md:32-35 repeat the policy claim. In contrast, docs/reference/python-sdk.mdx:7-12 states that the SDK reconstructs/audits traces and that preventing an unsafe action requires a separate runtime enforcement hook. A custom agent instrumented only with the SDK therefore receives telemetry, not the built-in policy enforcement these new pages imply. (docs/index.mdx:9)

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Inline comments:
In `@__tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts`:
- Around line 51-68: Align the drift guard with its documented coverage: in
__tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts lines 51-68, validate enforcement and
event counts against user-facing copy or narrow the documented scope; in
src/hooks/types.ts lines 7-9, update the scope description if assertions remain
narrow; in __tests__/scripts/copy-counts.test.ts lines 70-85, verify every
shipped harness name and spelled-out count form; and in lines 97-102, verify
each new translation link resolves to an existing file.

In `@docs/reference/harnesses.mdx`:
- Around line 3-13: Update the harness overview text to distinguish the twelve
IntegrationType hook harnesses from direct Python SDK instrumentation: describe
support as “twelve supported harnesses, plus direct Python SDK instrumentation,”
and remove any wording that implies SDK instrumentation provides the same
runtime hook enforcement or adapter behavior.

In `@README.md`:
- Line 14: Update the Russian translation label in the Translations navigation
from “Руссий” to “Русский”, leaving all other links unchanged.

In `@src/audit/report.ts`:
- Around line 269-271: Update the audit summary text around totalHits so
detectorRows are not described as actions stopped by failproofai; either phrase
the total as actions caught by the audit or calculate the stopped-action count
excluding audit-only detector rows, while preserving the separate real-time
blocked and slipped-through totals.
- Line 269: Update the report footer text in runAuditInner to describe coverage
across all supported INTEGRATION_TYPES rather than naming only six coding CLIs.
Keep the existing totalHits and scanned-session interpolation unchanged.

In `@src/hooks/types.ts`:
- Around line 4-6: Update the harness description comment near the agent and
coding CLI categories so Factory, Devin, Antigravity, and Goose are listed under
agent runtimes rather than coding CLIs, matching README.md while preserving the
existing classification of the other integrations.

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

1 advisory finding

• Medium/High Do not promise policy enforcement to SDK-only agents — docs/index.mdx:9 says agents with no harness report through the Python SDK and that “the same events, the same policies, and the same session history apply to all of them.” README.md:32-34 and docs/reference/harnesses.mdx:11-13 repeat that policy claim. But docs/reference/python-sdk.mdx:7-12 says the SDK supplies tracing/auditing and that preventing an unsafe action requires a separate runtime enforcement hook. A custom agent using only the documented SDK path therefore receives telemetry, not the built-in enforcement this new copy implies. (docs/index.mdx:9)

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Hermes found no blocking issues in this revision.

1 advisory finding

• Medium/High Qualify the claim that every policy applies to every harness — README.md:32-34 and docs/index.mdx:9 state that the “same events” and “same policies” apply to every one of the 12 harnesses; docs/reference/harnesses.mdx:12 makes the same policy claim. This is contradicted by that page’s own line 23 (“A policy can only act on events the harness exposes”) and the capability matrix: for example, src/hooks/types.ts:153-168 maps Hermes to only five event types, while the canonical set has 29 events (src/hooks/types.ts:1002-1046). Policies that subscribe to unsupported lifecycle, stop, or permission events therefore cannot apply on Hermes and other limited harnesses. (README.md:33)

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• Medium/High Qualify the claim that every policy applies to every harness — README.md:33 says the "same policies" apply whichever harness an agent runs in; docs/index.mdx:9 and docs/reference/harnesses.mdx:12 repeat it. However, Hermes maps only five native events and emits no Stop event (src/hooks/types.ts:153-168), while the five require-*-before-stop built-ins subscribe to Stop (src/hooks/builtin-policies.ts:2535-2606). The capability model explicitly says those policies are inapplicable on Hermes (src/hooks/types.ts:148-149). (README.md:33)