Concept detail
Harness
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Observed neighbors
agent reliability
Harness quality bounds the usefulness of the underlying model.
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The Art of Loop Engineering: How to Build Agents That Improve Over TimeContext engineering
The harness hosts context engineering, which assembles goal-conditioned input (prompts, skills, tools) before model invocation.
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AI Fundamentals with Mihail Eric, Head of AI MonacoContext management
Both sit outside the weights in the production stack and are treated as separately optimizable performance surfaces.
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How Companies Are Building Their Own Intelligence | Sonya Huang, Sequoia Capitalmicroservice orchestration layer
The harness plays the same role for agents that an orchestration layer plays for microservices: routing, state, policy, and failure handling.
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Brains vs Hands: How to Run AI Agents Safely in Production — Viren Baraiyatool-call efficiency
The harness determines which tools (grep, cat, read, inspect, verify) the agent calls and therefore the latency/token cost of the retrieval loop.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search — Jo Kristian Bergum, Hornet.dev