Engineering patterns
Harness engineering and building patterns
Harness engineering 39
- Building Effective AI Coding Agents for the Terminal: Scaffolding, Harness, Context Engineering, and Lessons Learnedarxiv.org
- The Anatomy of an Agent Harnessblog.langchain.com
- Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first worldopenai.com
- Harness Engineering - Martin Fowlermartinfowler.com
- The Emerging 'Harness Engineering' Playbookignorance.ai
- Skill Issue: Harness Engineering for Coding Agentshumanlayer.dev
- Harness Design for Long-Running Application Developmentanthropic.com
- Better Harness: A Recipe for Harness Hill-Climbing with Evalsblog.langchain.com
- Addy Osmani on Loop Engineering - designing coding agent systemsx.com
- Adversarial Review: Structured Disagreement for Grounded Agentic Code Reviewarxiv.org
- Agent-to-agent pair programming - letting Claude and Codex work together as worker and revieweraxeldelafosse.com
- Agentic Context Management: Solving Agent Memory and Cost as Lifecycle and Architecture Problemsarxiv.org
- Agentic Harness Engineeringdawning-road.github.io
- Agentic Harness Engineering - observability-driven evolution of coding-agent harnessesgithub.com
- Agentic Harness Engineering: Observability-Driven Automatic Evolution of Coding-Agent Harnessesarxiv.org
- Andy Konwinski introduces Headlong, an open source microharness for persistent agentsx.com
- Autoloop - GitHub Next goal-driven agent loop for automating tasksgithubnext.com
- Boris Cherny: every 6 months delete your CLAUDE.md, skills and hooks and see what the model doesx.com
- Build your own vulnerability harnessblog.cloudflare.com
- Building a Personal AI Factory - July 2025 snapshotjohn-rush.com
- Claude Code creator writes loops instead of promptingx.com
- Explore the context window - Claude Code Docscode.claude.com
- Harness Engineering - ai-literacy-superpowers explanationhabitat-thinking.github.io
- Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement - Lilian Wenglilianweng.github.io
- improve-codebase-architecture - mattpocock Claude Code skillgithub.com
- Learn Harness Engineering - project-based course for reliable Codex and Claude Codewalkinglabs.github.io
- Natural-Language Agent Harnessesarxiv.org
- OpenAI Symphony spec - orchestrating isolated autonomous coding agent runsgithub.com
- Personal AI Infrastructure v5.0.0 release notes - Daniel Miesslergithub.com
- prove_it - verification harness for Claude Code that forces tests to run via hooksgithub.com
- Ralph Wiggum as a "software engineer"ghuntley.com
- Structural Backpressure Beats Smarter Agentsreubenbrooks.dev
- Thariq - Lessons from Building Claude Code: How We Use Skillsx.com
- The advisor strategy: Give Sonnet an intelligence boost with Opusclaude.com
- The Bitter Lesson of Tool Callingarxiv.org
- Welcome to Gas Town - Steve Yegge on orchestrating fleets of Claude Code agentssteve-yegge.medium.com
- What Changes When the Atomic Unit of Intelligence Is No Longer a Single LLM Callsantoshkumarradha.com
- Why We Built Our Own Background Agent - Ramp Buildersbuilders.ramp.com
- Your Agent Harness Is Not an Orchestration Layerdryrun.security
General insights 9
- A Sufficiently Detailed Spec Is Codehaskellforall.com
- Addy Osmani on The Orchestration Tax - human attention as the bottleneck for multi-agent workflowsx.com
- Andrej Karpathy's notes from Claude coding: agent workflows, fallibility, leverage, slopacolypsex.com
- How to Fix Your Contextdbreunig.com
- I Can't Do That, Dave - No Agent Yet: why AI agents need identity and the ability to say nosystemic.engineering
- Jonathan Vanderford on AI agents driving a return to detailed specs and upfront designlinkedin.com
- Learnings from building AI agents - how cubic made its AI code reviewer less noisycubic.dev
- The Pipeline Is Dead, Long Live the Agent Meshwebframp.com
- Thoughts on slowing the fuck down - how we should work with coding agentsmariozechner.at