Blog

Recipes, release notes, and real-world use cases for Context Harness.

February 28, 2026 release features

Multi-Format File Support: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel

The filesystem connector now ingests and indexes PDF and Office documents — no extra config, just add the extensions to include_globs and sync.

February 28, 2026 release

v0.5.1: File Support and Sync Progress

PDF and Office extraction in the filesystem connector, plus observable progress during sync — no new config required.

February 26, 2026 release embeddings

Local Embeddings on Every Platform

Context Harness ships local embeddings on all six release targets — no ORT install, no musl or Intel Mac left behind.

February 26, 2026 mcp cursor claude local-ai

Local-first context for Cursor and Claude with Context Harness

One place to index your docs, Git repos, and runbooks—query it locally and expose it to Cursor and Claude via MCP.

February 26, 2026 release

v0.4.2: The Extension Registry Is Here

The big release: a community extension registry inspired by cheat/cheat — one command, dozens of connectors and tools. Plus local embeddings on every binary and the build fixes that made it ship.

February 25, 2026 release

v0.3.0: See What Your Index Is Doing

New stats, search explain, native JSON export, shell completions, and Docker support — everything you need to actually use Context Harness.

February 24, 2026 release

v0.2.0: Native MCP Streamable HTTP

Context Harness now speaks the MCP protocol natively — connect Cursor, Claude, and other MCP clients directly via URL.

February 23, 2026 recipe lua

Recipe: Index Your WordPress Blog

Write a 60-line Lua connector that parses a WordPress XML export and turns every post into a searchable document.

February 22, 2026 recipe agents

Recipe: Chat With Your Blog

Combine a WordPress connector with a custom agent to create a conversational persona grounded in your own published writing.

February 21, 2026 recipe lua

Recipe: Index Your GitHub Issues

A Lua connector that pulls issues from any GitHub repo and makes them searchable by your AI tools. Great for bug triage and project context.

February 20, 2026 recipe teams

Recipe: Unified Context for Your Engineering Team

Set up a shared Context Harness instance that indexes multiple repos, Jira, runbooks, and ADRs — so every engineer's AI assistant knows your whole stack.