Loop & Harness EngineeringBirgitta Böckeler (martinfowler.com)Statement

Harness engineering for coding agent users

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Harness engineering for coding agent users — Agent = Model + Harness

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The standard reference for the user-side definition of the harness as everything in an AI agent except the model

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Officialmartinfowler.comhttps://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html

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