Agent Harness Bloat is Real: Minimal Context Cuts Costs and Runs
zainhas · x · 2026-08-07
The author points out that the harness used to call an LLM agent dramatically impacts both cost and quality. In their tests, a minimal harness like Pi sent about 3x less context per turn, managed context better by keeping a tighter working set, and successfully finished tasks in fewer runs.
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