Control Your Harness and Evals to Own Your Agent's Quality
pikanou_ · x · 2026-08-28
The post argues that without controlling and owning your harness and evaluation systems, you cannot guarantee the quality or performance of your agent. Relying solely on API feature updates from labs doesn't integrate your test suites, failure cases, or domain constraints. A harness is not just prompt tricks; it comprises the state machine, deterministic verifiers, and domain evals that prevent hallucination.
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