docs: clarify harness identity and install flow

README.md

@@ -34,18 +34,48 @@
 
 ## ⚡ What is this?
 
-Hyperstack is two things bolted together:
+Hyperstack is a coding-agent harness made of three tightly-coupled layers:
 
-1. **A TypeScript MCP server** with 11 plugins and 79 tools. Your AI calls these for ground-truth API signatures, component specs, design decisions, and architectural patterns. No hallucinated imports.
+1. **An internal harness** that bootstraps the agent, enforces global invariants, and routes internal roles like `main` and `website-builder`.
+2. **A TypeScript MCP server** with 11 plugins and 79 tools. Your AI calls these for ground-truth API signatures, component specs, design decisions, and architectural patterns. No hallucinated imports.
+3. **A skill system with enforcement teeth.** 21 skills with Iron Laws, rationalization tables, and a SessionStart hook that force-injects discipline on every session. Your AI cannot "just try one thing" without the gate firing.
 
-2. **A skill system with enforcement teeth.** 21 skills with Iron Laws, rationalization tables, and a SessionStart hook that force-injects discipline on every session. Your AI cannot "just try one thing" without the gate firing.
+The combination turns a generic coding assistant into a disciplined agent system that:
 
-The combination turns a generic coding assistant into a Senior Staff Engineer who checks docs before writing code, writes a DESIGN.md before any visual work, and refuses to claim completion without verification evidence.
+- checks docs before writing code
+- writes a DESIGN.md before visual work
+- routes website-heavy work to a specialist role
+- refuses to claim completion without verification evidence
 
 **You should use this if** you are tired of AI agents inventing API shapes, shipping AI-slop UIs, or claiming "tests pass" without running them.
 
 **Skip this if** you want a frictionless autocomplete. Hyperstack is the opposite of frictionless - it is intentional friction that catches bugs before they ship.
 
+## 🤖 Agent View
+
+If you are an agent reading this README, the shortest correct mental model is:
+
+- Hyperstack is not just an MCP server
+- Hyperstack is not just a skills pack
+- Hyperstack is a harness that combines internal role routing, MCP grounding, and workflow gates
+
+Current internal role model:
+
+- `main` - conductor, gatekeeper, verifier, delivery owner
+- `website-builder` - specialist for website-facing design and implementation work
+
+Public surface:
+
+- MCP plugins for deterministic knowledge
+- skills for process enforcement
+- SessionStart hook for bootstrap context injection
+
+Internal surface:
+
+- role contracts in `agents/`
+- orchestration contracts in `harness/`
+- generated runtime bootstrap artifacts in `generated/runtime-context/`
+
 ---
 
 ## 🚀 Quickstart
@@ -60,24 +90,40 @@ The agent will pull the Docker image and configure your MCP client.
 
 ### 🐳 Docker (manual)
 
-Add this to `~/.claude.json`, Cursor config, or equivalent:
+Hyperstack uses a persistent container plus `docker exec`. Do **not** use the
+older `docker run --rm` per-session pattern.
+
+1. Pull the image:
+
+```bash
+docker pull ghcr.io/orkait/hyperstack:main
+```
+
+2. Start the persistent container:
+
+```bash
+docker rm -f hyperstack-mcp 2>/dev/null
+docker run -d --name hyperstack-mcp --restart unless-stopped \
+  --memory=512m --cpus=1 \
+  --entrypoint sleep \
+  ghcr.io/orkait/hyperstack:main infinity
+```
+
+3. Add this to `~/.claude.json`, Cursor config, or equivalent:
 
 ```json
 {
   "mcpServers": {
     "hyperstack": {
       "command": "docker",
-      "args": [
-        "run", "-i", "--rm",
-        "--memory=256m", "--cpus=0.5",
-        "ghcr.io/orkait/hyperstack:main"
-      ]
+      "args": ["exec", "-i", "hyperstack-mcp", "bun", "/app/src/index.ts"]
     }
   }
 }
 ```
 
-The `--memory=256m` and `--cpus=0.5` flags enforce resource limits. Keep them.
+This keeps startup cheap across sessions and matches the installation flow in
+[install.md](/mnt/storage/codespace/code/orkait/hyperstack/install.md).
 
 ### 🔧 Install the skills
 
@@ -107,6 +153,9 @@ Node 18+ required.
 
 ## 🧠 The two-layer system
 
+The public product still has two user-facing layers, but they now sit inside an
+internal harness.
+
 ### Layer 1: MCP Plugins (deterministic knowledge)
 
 Your AI calls these for exact API data. Memory is not acceptable. Every plugin serves typed TypeScript data + `.txt` snippets bundled with the plugin.
@@ -133,6 +182,15 @@ Markdown with adversarial enforcement. Each gate skill has an Iron Law, a 1% Rul
 
 The `using-hyperstack` skill is injected into every session by `hooks/session-start.mjs`. You do not have to invoke it manually.
 
+### Internal Harness (role routing + bootstrap)
+
+The internal harness is what ties the public layers together:
+
+- bootstrap is injected at session start from generated runtime context
+- `main` owns classification, routing, gates, and verification
+- `website-builder` specializes in website-facing design and implementation work
+- roles are internal and auto-called, not user-invoked commands
+
 <details>
 <summary><strong>🧱 Core (13)</strong> - workflow, discipline, gates used on every task</summary>
 

agents/main/CHECKS.md

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+# Main Agent Checks
+
+## Preconditions
+
+- Request has been classified
+- Required specialist routing decision is explicit
+- Required gates are known
+
+## Required Evidence
+
+- Why the request stayed with `main` or routed to a specialist
+- What workspace/package evidence informed that routing decision
+- What MCP or skill gates were required
+- What verification command proves any completion claim
+
+## Done Criteria
+
+- Correct role selected
+- Specialist handoff or direct execution stayed within scope
+- Verification ownership remained with `main`
+
+## Red Flags
+
+- `main` doing specialist website work without delegation logic
+- Silent scope widening
+- Completion claims without evidence
+- Routing directly from user request to a specialist without `main`

agents/main/CONTEXT.md

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+# Main Agent Context Policy
+
+## Hot Context
+
+- Current user request
+- Active design or plan status
+- Global Hyperstack invariants
+- Required MCP-first rules
+- Role routing and transition rules
+
+## Warm Context
+
+- Relevant skill contracts
+- Recent verification results
+- Current diff or changed surface summary
+
+## Cold Context
+
+- Deep reference docs
+- Large examples
+- Historical research notes
+
+## Never Load
+
+- Entire reference forests unless required
+- Unrelated plugin docs
+- Full large files when a targeted slice is enough

agents/main/LIFECYCLE.md

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+# Main Agent Lifecycle
+
+## Entry Criteria
+
+- A new user request exists
+- Hyperstack bootstrap is active
+- No other internal role currently owns the request lifecycle
+
+## Steps
+
+1. Read the request and inspect the workspace before routing
+2. Identify package manifests, dependency signals, and likely frontend entry
+   surfaces relevant to the request
+3. Classify the work using both the request and the workspace reality
+4. Determine whether a specialist role is required
+5. Enforce MCP-first and design/plan gates before implementation
+6. Route website-facing work to `website-builder`
+7. Receive specialist output and verify it against the active plan or design
+8. Run review, verification, and ship gates
+9. Deliver the result or report blockers with evidence
+
+## Handoffs
+
+- `main -> website-builder` for website pages, landing pages, dashboards,
+  redesigns, and website-experience-heavy UI work
+- `website-builder -> main` after specialist design or implementation output is
+  ready for review and verification
+
+## Exit Criteria
+
+- A specialist has been selected and briefed, or
+- `main` has completed the request itself, or
+- `main` has blocked safely and reported the blocker with evidence
+
+## Failure Escalation
+
+- If classification is ambiguous, default to `main` and require explicit
+  delegation criteria before specialist routing
+- If a specialist widens scope or attempts to self-ship, reclaim control and
+  route back through verification
+- If verification fails, route to the appropriate corrective path before any
+  completion claim

agents/main/PROFILE.md

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+---
+name: main
+kind: core
+auto_invoke_when:
+  - every user request
+  - any task that requires classification, orchestration, verification, or delivery
+owns:
+  - request classification
+  - internal role routing
+  - gate enforcement
+  - lifecycle transitions
+  - final verification
+  - delivery orchestration
+must_not_do:
+  - silently bypass required specialists
+  - skip MCP-first grounding
+  - allow completion claims without verification evidence
+delegates_to:
+  - website-builder
+requires:
+  - current bootstrap invariants from using-hyperstack
+  - approved design before implementation when required
+  - verification evidence before completion or delivery
+---
+
+# Main Agent Profile
+
+## Mission
+
+`main` is Hyperstack's conductor. It owns request classification, internal role
+routing, gate enforcement, lifecycle transitions, and final verification.
+
+## Authority
+
+- Receives every user request first
+- Decides whether the work stays with `main` or routes to a specialist
+- Reuses existing Hyperstack skills and MCP plugins as the execution substrate
+- Owns final review, ship-gate, and delivery authority
+
+## Boundaries
+
+`main` does not exist to absorb all work. It delegates specialist work when the
+request is clearly in a specialist domain.
+
+For website-facing work, `main` routes to `website-builder` and later regains
+control for review, verification, and delivery.

agents/website-builder/CHECKS.md

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+# Website Builder Checks
+
+## Preconditions
+
+- Delegation from `main` exists
+- Website-facing scope is explicit
+- Required design/plan gate is active
+
+## Required Evidence
+
+- The package manifests and dependency signals that describe the active frontend stack
+- The core frontend file map for the active surface: routes, layouts, major
+  components, styles, tokens, navigation
+- What primary user task the page or flow serves
+- CTA hierarchy and page structure decisions
+- State coverage for loading, empty, error, success, disabled, or destructive states
+- Responsive and accessibility implications
+- MCP-backed grounding for stack-specific implementation choices
+
+## Done Criteria
+
+- Workspace and frontend inventory are explicit and tied to the delegated task
+- Website-facing scope completed without widening
+- Specialist output is ready for `main` to review
+- No shipping or completion claim made directly by `website-builder`
+
+## Red Flags
+
+- Acting like a generic frontend builder instead of a website specialist
+- Implementing outside delegated scope
+- Missing state coverage or CTA hierarchy
+- Claiming completion without handing back to `main`

agents/website-builder/CONTEXT.md

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+# Website Builder Context Policy
+
+## Hot Context
+
+- Current delegated website task
+- Workspace inventory for the active website surface
+- Relevant package manifests and dependency signals
+- Core frontend files for the active page or flow
+- Relevant page intent and audience
+- Active website-specific design constraints
+- Relevant website-experience checklist items
+- Targeted MCP outputs for design, UI/UX, tokens, motion, and stack choices
+
+## Warm Context
+
+- Approved `DESIGN.md`
+- Current plan slice
+- Route/layout/component/style inventory for the active surface
+- Relevant changed files or page components
+
+## Cold Context
+
+- Unrelated backend docs
+- Large reference docs not needed for the current website task
+- Historical design notes outside the active page or flow
+
+## Never Load
+
+- Whole repo philosophy documents when a targeted contract slice is enough
+- Unrelated plugin docs
+- Full codebase dumps for a single page-level task

agents/website-builder/LIFECYCLE.md

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+# Website Builder Lifecycle
+
+## Entry Criteria
+
+- `main` has classified the request as website-facing work
+- Delegation to `website-builder` is explicit
+- Required design or planning gate is active
+
+## Steps
+
+1. Read the user workspace before making website decisions
+2. Inspect package manifests and dependencies (`package.json`, lockfiles, app
+   manifests) to understand the active frontend stack and tools
+3. Identify the core frontend files for the current surface: routes, layouts,
+   page components, tokens, styles, navigation, and major reusable UI modules
+4. Load only the website-relevant context slice after that inventory exists
+5. Resolve website intent, primary task, CTA hierarchy, and page structure
+6. Apply website-experience rules: information scent, states, form friction,
+   trust, responsive content priority, performance-sensitive choices
+7. Produce or refine website design outputs such as `DESIGN.md`
+8. Implement website-facing code only when delegated and within scope
+9. Return a specialist result package to `main` with evidence
+
+## Handoffs
+
+- `main -> website-builder` when the request is website-facing
+- `website-builder -> main` after specialist output is ready for review and
+  verification
+
+## Exit Criteria
+
+- Website-specific design or implementation output is complete for the delegated
+  scope
+- The workspace inventory is explicit: packages, stack, and core frontend files
+  are known
+- Required evidence is attached for `main` to verify
+
+## Failure Escalation
+
+- If the task drifts outside website-facing work, stop and hand back to `main`
+- If design or plan gates are missing, stop and hand back to `main`
+- If verification or shipping is requested, stop and hand back to `main`