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Jediah Katz defines Agent Harness as the system layer that "wraps the model, steers the model, and connects it to the world," divided into the Runtime layer and the Context orchestration layer.
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10/21/2026
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Is the Agent Harness Dead? A Cursor Engineer's Deep Dive
bilibiliMaiYangAI10/21/2026
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