Agent Harness Engineering
Agent harness engineering is the practice of building the scaffolding, infrastructure, and tooling that surrounds an AI agent — everything that isn’t the model itself but makes the model useful, reliable, and safe in production. The model is the engine; the harness is the chassis, controls, safety systems, and instrumentation around it. Core Components Execution Environment The runtime that manages how the agent runs — process lifecycle, sandboxing, resource limits, timeouts, and isolation between agent instances. ...