An AI harness is a structured set of files, rules, skills, workflows, and project context that...
An AI harness is a structured set of files, rules, skills, workflows, and project context that surrounds an AI coding agent.
Instead of repeating the same instructions in every prompt, the harness gives the agent a consistent way of working across tasks and sessions.
And that's the key idea:
Prompting tells the agent what to do. A harness tells it how to work.
The Problem
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