Agent Harness Engineering

"One loop & Bash is all you need"

"Adding a tool means adding one handler"

"An agent without a plan drifts"

"Break big tasks down; each subtask gets a clean context"

"Load knowledge when you need it, not upfront"

"Context will fill up; you need a way to make room"

"Break big goals into small tasks, order them, persist to disk"

"Run slow operations in the background; the agent keeps thinking"

"When the task is too big for one, delegate to teammates"

"Teammates need shared communication rules"

"Teammates scan the board and claim tasks themselves"

"Each works in its own directory, no interference"

"You can't improve what you can't measure"

"Trust but verify — then verify again"

"When the agent derails at 2am, logs are your only witness"

"A demo agent is easy; a reliable agent is engineering"

"Everything you learned, one system"