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agent harness
An agent harness is the layer around an LLM agent that handles tool calls, tracing, evals, workflow control, and recovery. For product teams, reliability depends less on the model alone and more on this surrounding system.
2 articles

AI Agent/Apr 3
Hermes Agent: The Agent Harness Framework to Watch
Hermes Agent aims to make agent testing and orchestration easier, with tool use, evals, and workflow control in one stack.

Industry News/Apr 1
Agent Harness Is Quietly Defining AI Engineering
Martin Fowler, Anthropic, and OpenAI are all pointing to the same idea: agent reliability depends on the system around the model.