Tier 2 · Harness engineering Harness engineering · fetched 2026-07-02
agentic-harness-patterns-skill
A distilled 'skill' file of agentic harness patterns - short, dense, and directly reusable as workflow steps. The compressed counterpart to the harness-engineering book.
View source on GitHubKey takeaways
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Dense pattern list translates directly into flow steps and checklists
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Skill-file format shows how to package harness knowledge for agents themselves
Flows built on this research
Agent Architecture
Design a Single-Loop Agent
Build the core agent loop the leading coding agents use: one model, one loop, tools in, results folded back into context.
5 steps · 90-150 minutes
Harness Engineering
Verification Loops: Never Trust an Unrun Edit
Wire verification into your agent so every edit is checked by machines - syntax, tests, behavior - before it counts as done.
4 steps · 60-100 minutes