Session Harness

Not Rest Inc. · Session Harness · 1 of 8 · A walk in eight stops

This is a workshop on the notrest session harness — the scaffolding a working session runs inside. Eight stops, walked in order, each one landing in a different ring of this field, the way the capital walk does. Use the arrows; the field carries you between rings.

Who is teaching

Ethan Nava, founder of Not Rest Inc. — thesis on recurrent neural networks, 2019; MIT Product Design, 2024, the latest degree.

The walk

• Session harness — you are here: what this walk is, and who is teaching it.
• What is a harness — and what makes it a session harness.
• The issues with sessions in a project folder — seven default failures, and the answer to each.
• The plugin: structure and architecture — the tree, the events, where a law lives, the estate, the contract.
• A session, schematically — one prompt end to end, the successor's packet, the kill drill.
• The 32 tools in seven categories — the map, the cut, and the catalog.
• Take the workshop — the full deck, and how to build your own.
• The three laws to take home — what survives if you forget everything else.

Walk it in order: what a harness is → what breaks without one → the plugin → a session end to end → the thirty-two tools → the deck → the three laws. The loop returns here.