12 Principles of Harness Engineering
morqon · x · 2026-07-19
The author distills their past year's work into 12 principles of harness engineering, focusing on building external "guardrails / execution frameworks" for agents to boost output.
The original tweet in the screenshot emphasizes that pointing an agent to the author's writing, tweets, podcasts, and talks can massively improve output quality. The key isn't a single isolated trick, but a holistic summary of how to engineer agent workflows.
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