Commit Intent in AI Harness Engineering
Commit Intent in AI Harness Engineering Commit intent is the discipline of having an agent explicitly declare what it is about to do, and why, immediately before it actually invokes a tool — separating the decision from the execution as two distinct steps in the harness. Concretely, before a tool call goes out, the agent emits a short, structured statement: the action being taken, the target, the expected outcome, and often the reasoning that justifies it. Only after that intent is committed does the harness fire the actual tool call. This sounds redundant — the tool call itself already encodes “what” — but it solves several real problems in agentic systems. ...