Baseline configuration profiles

Copy flags into Web Settings or .agent_runtime_prefs.json → harness.env. Secrets stay in .env only.

See Configuration basics for precedence.

Stable local dev

• AGENT_TOOL_LAZY=1
• AGENT_UI_VERBOSITY=normal

Safety-sensitive

• AGENT_SAFETY_JUDGE=1
• AGENT_APPROVAL_TIMEOUT_MS=120000

YOLO (high-risk, temporary)

• AGENT_YOLO=1
• Prefer session-bound CLI flags:
  • npm run web -- --yolo
  • npm run web:dev -- --yolo
  • npm run tui -- --yolo

Research-heavy

• AGENT_QUERY_REWRITE=1
• AGENT_EMBED_MODEL=openai/text-embedding-3-small (or your provider’s embedding slug)
• AGENT_VAULT_AUTO_WRITE=research
• AGENT_WEB_READABILITY=1

Workflow: Harness protocol — Web research.

Long-session / deep reasoning

• AGENT_COMPRESS_SEMANTIC=1
• AGENT_REFLEXION_SEMANTIC=1 (default on)
• AGENT_PROTOCOL_INTENT_HINT=coding (adjust to task class: knowledge, execution, introspection)

Plugin extensions

• AGENT_PLUGIN_DIR=/absolute/path/to/plugins