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The Anatomy of an Agent Harness

By Vivek Trivedy TLDR: Agent = Model + Harness. Harness engineering is how we build systems around models to turn them into work engines. The model contains the intelligence and the harness makes that intelligence useful. We define what a harness is and derive the core components today's and tomorrow's agents need.

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