diff --git a/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/spec.json b/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/spec.json
index c60b559..55dd157 100644
--- a/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/spec.json
+++ b/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/spec.json
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {
   "feature_name": "harnessx-removal",
   "created_at": "2026-09-30T08:00:00Z",
-  "updated_at": "2026-09-30T10:30:00Z",
+  "updated_at": "2026-09-30T11:00:00Z",
   "language": "en",
-  "phase": "design-generated",
+  "phase": "tasks-generated",
   "approvals": {
     "requirements": {
       "generated": true,
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
     },
     "design": {
       "generated": true,
-      "approved": false
+      "approved": true
     },
     "tasks": {
-      "generated": false,
+      "generated": true,
       "approved": false
     }
   },
diff --git a/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/tasks.md b/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/tasks.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b98eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.kiro/specs/harnessx-removal/tasks.md
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Implementation Plan
+
+Order follows the design's commit sequence (Requirement 5): nothing is deleted before its replacement has landed
+and passed its fixture test. Every task is a commit gated on the full suite's own exit code, `ruff check`,
+`ruff format --check` and `mypy`; the reconciler stays under 500 lines.
+
+- [ ] 1. Baseline without the extra
+  - Equality script (design §3) with its `find_spec("harnessx")` and freeze checks; re-sync `.venv` without the
+    `harnessx` extra first.
+  - Record `benchmarks/measurements/<date>-harnessx-removal-baseline/`: full suite, `ousast pairs --json`, the
+    `python-vulnerable` quick benchmark, one standard-mode scan, `ousast improve --dry-run`; the exclusion list
+    written next to it.
+  - _Requirements: 3.1, 5.1_
+
+- [ ] 2. Memory store and the `remember` task
+  - `plane/memory.py` (JSON rows per repository + pin, facts by content hash, ingest refuses below 1 GiB free),
+    `plane/tasks/remember.py` (model-free), `reconciler.mark_done` under the run lock, seed and ingest wiring in
+    `cli._plane`, generator annotations; fact reuse when repository, pin, candidate set and runner image match.
+  - Fixture tests: rows from a recorded Run, reuse on an unchanged pin, recompute on a changed one, disk refusal.
+  - _Requirements: 6.1, 6.4_
+
+- [ ] 3. Proposals from memory
+  - `improve/memory.py` with rules M1 (demote) and M2 (promote) and the advisory disputed-family signal;
+    `run_round(proposals=...)`; `ousast improve --memory` (opt-in; default output byte-identical); provenance per
+    proposal in the sidecar and journal; the train-on-test guard (qualification population, gated benchmark cases,
+    holdout pairs).
+  - Tests: each rule on crafted rows, the guard drops excluded rows, provenance round-trips, default `improve`
+    unchanged.
+  - _Requirements: 6.2, 6.4_
+
+- [ ] 4. The loop as a plane Run
+  - Tasks `alerts`, `measure`, `propose`, `improve` (no Model, zero budget); `--loop` Run generation; fixed-pin
+    Workspaces; the gate's verdict in `<run>/loop-improve/gate.json`; adoption stays a maintainer commit.
+  - Fixture tests with the fake ax; one live loop Run on the local ax recorded (no model spend beyond the verify
+    passes it reuses from memory).
+  - _Requirements: 6.3_
+
+- [ ] 5. Retire the HarnessX scan paths
+  - `cli.py`, `fusion.py`, `verify_judge.py`, `stage_processors.py` changes; `RetiredConfigError` for
+    `[models] verifier`, `[fusion] panel_model`/`decider_model`; one warning for a `[harnessx]` section (the only
+    tagged retirement text allowed in `src`, enforced by a test); tests renamed to the behaviour they assert.
+  - _Requirements: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.3_
+
+- [ ] 6. Delete HarnessX code and packaging
+  - Delete `harness_ext.py`, `hunter_harness.py`, `verify_judge.py`'s judge path, the HarnessX-only tests; remove
+    the extra, the mypy override and the `uv.lock` entry; rename the conftest fixture; audit rows and manifest; the
+    reference search test (Req 2.4).
+  - _Requirements: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4_
+
+- [ ] 7. Equality proof
+  - Rerun the baseline script; commit the comparison record next to the baseline; any difference outside the
+    exclusion list blocks the merge.
+  - _Requirements: 3.2_
+
+- [ ] 8. Documentation and specs
+  - README ax-plane section pointing at `ops/ax/README.md`; `docs/examples.md` §6 and `docs/threat-model.md`
+    (egress policy, budgets); dated retirement notes in the four specs and `.kiro/steering/overview.md`; release
+    note naming the silent loss of the second hunter for users who set `[models] hunter`.
+  - _Requirements: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3_