ECC v2.0.0-rc.1 preview pack is ready for final release review.

ECC 2.0 is the harness-native operator system for agentic work: skills, hooks,
rules, MCP conventions, release gates, and an optional Hermes operator shell.

What ships:
- Hermes setup guide
- release notes and launch collateral
- cross-harness architecture docs
- Hermes import guidance for turning local operator workflows into public ECC skills

Start here: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC
Release notes: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC/blob/main/docs/releases/2.0.0-rc.1/release-notes.md

ECC v2.0.0-rc.1 keeps the public surface honest:
- reusable ECC substrate in repo
- Hermes documented as the operator shell
- private workspace state left out
- release metadata and docs covered by tests

This is the release-candidate line: public system shape now, deeper local integrations only after sanitization.

Strong point on eval discipline.

In ECC we turned this into production checks via:
- /harness-audit
- /quality-gate
- Stop-phase session summaries

In v2.0.0-rc.1, that discipline extends to the release surface: docs, manifests, launch copy, and public/private boundaries are test-backed.

This workflow direction is right: optimize the harness, not just prompts.

ECC v2.0.0-rc.1 pushes that further: reusable skills, thin harness adapters, and Hermes as the operator shell on top.

ECC v2.0.0-rc.1 preview pack is ready for final release review.

ECC 2.0 is the harness-native operator system for agentic work. The same reusable layer now reaches Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini, Zed, GitHub Copilot workflows, and terminal-only operator lanes.

This release-candidate surface includes:
- sanitized Hermes setup documentation
- release notes and launch collateral
- cross-harness architecture notes
- Hermes import guidance for turning local operator patterns into public ECC skills

It does not include private workspace state, credentials, raw local exports, or personal datasets.

Repo: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC
Release notes: https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC/blob/main/docs/releases/2.0.0-rc.1/release-notes.md