Harness Engineering Notes From Shipping Real Agents
Model-task fit matters enough that harness design becomes a first-class engineering discipline
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Model-task fit matters enough that harness design becomes a first-class engineering discipline
still true just-in-time harnesses bespokely engineered for your exact task verified with evals this is a recipe for today - models will alter how we build harnesses in the future, but we need to build today :)
nice write up from the HuggingFace folks aggregating works on defining agents, harnesses, environments, RL, etc. The more we can roughly have a shared vocabulary the better…I still find it confusing (lolll), but we’re roughly converging on
subtle agent orchestration change that anecdotally works better in pretty much every case I’ve seen (need to run some evals) bossman supervisor >> external judge >>> self reflection - when verifying agent outputs using a fresh judge (wit