Harness Teardown Ledger

Everything torn out of the Amicus repo during the 2026-08-15 session — the rules, the memory, and the four-wire harness. Recorded from the live filesystem.

CURRENT STATUS — ERASED. THE HARNESS IS DOWN. The teardown stuck. There is no .claude/hooks/ directory and no .claude/settings.json to register hooks. Every hook file sits inert in the backup folder .claude/_harness_erased_20260815-022604/. Nothing enforces anything right now.

Correction (2026-08-15). An earlier version of this page claimed the harness was “restored and hardened.” That was false. It was written from a session summary, not from the disk. The block that was cited as proof was the built-in shell sleep limit, not the repo hook pre_gate.py. This version was checked against the actual files.

A.Rules removed

Rule	Where	Status
The prose rule set in `CLAUDE.md`, cut to a single survivor	Earlier teardown. Only COPY / PORT survives. The live file is 886 bytes.	removed
Certified checks: `visual_diff`, `repo_archive_gcs_only`	The `checks/` files still exist on disk, but no hook runs them.	orphaned
Unenforced “rule candidates” in the failure ledger	`.claude/failure_ledger.md`	removed
The wrongly-created Google-Doc memory rule	`reference_colored_google_doc_via_html.md` — created, then deleted the same session	removed

B.Memory removed

File	Size	Status
`MEMORY.md` (the index)	304 B	deleted
`elpaseo-dc-html-self-contained.md`	1315 B	deleted
230 archived memory files (prior teardown)	`memory_pre_teardown.tgz`, 2026-08-14	archived

The memory directory is empty as of this session. Verified: 0 files.

C.Harness removed

The four wires, their hook files, the tool scripts, and the registration. All erased. The files now sit only in the backup folder .claude/_harness_erased_20260815-022604/.

Component	Detail	Status
Hook registrations (4)	`UserPromptSubmit→prompt_queue.py`, `PreToolUse →pre_gate.py`, `PostToolUse →post_count.py`, `Stop→stop_contract.py`. No live `settings.json` holds them; only a `.bak` copy.	erased
Hook files	`pre_gate.py`, `prompt_queue.py`, `post_count.py`, `stop_contract.py`, `harness_state.py` — moved to the backup folder	erased
Tool scripts	`task_status.py`, `certify_gates.py`, `visual_diff.py` — in the backup folder	erased
WIRE 0a	Block `Edit`/`Write` to `.claude/hooks`, `state`, `settings`	down
WIRE 0b	Block `Bash` that references the protected paths	down
WIRE 1	Turn budget: 60 tool calls per prompt	down
WIRE 2	Edit budget: 5 edits per prompt	down
WIRE 3 (`gdoc_gate.py`)	Block a Google-Doc `create_file`. Built and tested 8/8 this session, never installed.	never live
State + cache	`.claude/state/` and `__pycache__/`	erased

Compiled 2026-08-15 for the Amicus repo. Sources checked directly: the absent .claude/hooks/ directory, the missing .claude/settings.json, the _harness_erased_20260815-022604/ backup, and the empty memory directory. Deployed to harness.toolforge.ai as a Cloudflare Pages site.