Currently, if you pull some changes from your repository that include a harness version bump, you have to manually remove the .my127ws harness directory and redownload it with ws harness download (or run ws install).
It would be nice to have workspace check some kind of metafile in the .my127ws directory that contains harness info, like the version number, and compare it to the current version defined in workspace.yml. If it differs, then it should automatically download the new version of the harness.
Workspace could generate this metafile in the .my127ws directory after a harness download.