As agent platforms added shells, persistent containers, skills, and compaction, N17Q moved portability above the model call and defined one harness contract for state, tools, policy, effects, and evidence.
#portability
N17Q rebuilt resumable agent state from semantic events, artifacts, policy, effects, and budgets so continuation did not depend on one opaque conversation identifier.
V0M3 exported ordinary Markdown and durable assets first, with optional provenance beside them, so completed writing did not depend on a provider, model session, or proprietary editor.