docs(harnessx-removal): the plane replaces HarnessX in README, docs and specs (task 8)

README: "Configuring the HarnessX agentic plane" becomes "The agentic
plane (ax)" (ousast plane run|status|doctor|remember, per-task Model,
budget and egress, pointer to ops/ax/README.md, one tagged retirement
line); "The HarnessX self-improving cycle" becomes "The self-improving
cycle", and its MetaAgent paragraph is replaced by the memory proposer
(`ousast improve --memory`, provenance, train-on-test guard). The fusion
panel_model/decider_model lines and the [harnessx] spend caps are gone.
The README reference test now passes without its strict xfail.

docs/examples.md section 6 runs the plane; docs/threat-model.md describes
the per-task EgressPolicy, the usd/calls budgets and the start-request
credential path. RELEASE_NOTES.md gets an Unreleased entry: HarnessX
removed, the retired keys and their errors, the silent loss of the
second hunter for users who set [models] hunter, and the plane as the
agentic path.

Dated retirement notes (2026-09-30) head the requirements, design and
brief of harnessx-self-improving-rulesets, learning-harness,
three-stage-scan and openrouter-sast-harness, and follow the spec table
in steering/overview.md; history is unchanged. All tasks are checked, so
spec.json moves to implementation-complete.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EmM1j46qgKMh3zqD1QMwEo
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@@ -57,30 +57,28 @@ uv run ousast improve benchmarks/manifests/java-spring-boot-vulnerable.toml
# which the next scan/benchmark of that target loads automatically.
```
## 6. Standard mode with the HarnessX agentic plane (OpenAI)
## 6. Running the agentic plane
Model work over whole repositories runs as a Run manifest on ax, one isolated actor
per task (bring-up: [ops/ax/README.md](../ops/ax/README.md)). The provider key is
read from the environment (or `.env`) by `ousast` and sent only in each task's start
request.
```bash
uv sync --extra harnessx
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
cat > openultrasast.toml <<'TOML'
[models]
hunter = "gpt-4o"
verifier = "gpt-4o"
[harnessx]
provider = "openai"
max_cost_usd = 2.0
token_threshold = 120000
[fusion]
panel_model = "gpt-4o" # two-panel adjudication on triggered findings
[hardening]
redact_secrets = true
max_findings = 0
TOML
uv run ousast scan /path/to/code --mode standard --config openultrasast.toml
jq '.degradations' "$run/manifest.json" # null = HarnessX ran; entries = it fell back
jq '.fusion' "$run/manifest.json" # per-finding dispositions
uv run ousast plane doctor # kind, Agent Substrate, ax controller, runner image
uv run ousast plane run plane/runs/validation-46.yaml # repo-facts, verify a/b(/c), agree, remember per case
uv run ousast plane status validation-46 # per-task status and token attribution
uv run ousast plane remember validation-46 # re-ingest the run's memory rows (OUSAST_MEMORY)
# Feed the stored rows back into the ruleset loop (same validator and gate)
uv run ousast improve benchmarks/manifests/java-spring-boot-vulnerable.toml --dry-run --memory
```
Each task in the Run carries its own Model and `budget: {usd, calls}`; a task that
reaches its ceiling stops as `unfinished` and resumes on a rerun with a larger
budget. A local `ousast scan --mode standard` stays deterministic apart from the
optional `[models] hunter` tool hunter.
## 7. Drive it from an MCP client (OpenCode / IDE)
```jsonc