Harness Engineering
Harness – all the infrastructure around the model: context and tools plus three protective layers.
Agent = Model + Harness
Three protective layers:
- constraints – what is not allowed;
- validation – is it done correctly;
- remediation – how to recover.
A model without a Harness is an untamed horse. The competitiveness of agent systems is determined not by the model, but by the Harness: the same model in different Harnesses gives drastically different results. The more powerful the model, the more important the Harness around it.
Related: Five Functions of Harness, Orchestration - Workflow and Autonomous Agent, Guardrails