What Does This Mean?
Building the surrounding scaffolding — tool access, guardrails, retry logic, permissions — that lets an AI agent act reliably, treated as a distinct skill from writing the agent's core prompt.
EXPLAINER
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The prompt was fine, it was the harness engineering that made it actually usable."
LORE & ORIGIN
Term that emerged as practitioners realized an agent's reliability depends more on the harness wrapped around it than on the underlying model or prompt alone.
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