Loop & Harness Engineeringde Macedo (arXiv:2606.10106)

What makes a harness a harness

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What makes a harness a harness — T1–T4 necessary and sufficient conditions

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Problematized the term's many meanings academically, proposing as the condition a control mechanism that does not depend on the model's compliance

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