Garry Tan: Aside might be the best AI agent harness, outpacing frontier labs
garrytan · x · 2026-09-06
Y Combinator president Garry Tan says Aside might be the best AI agent harness: model-agnostic, extensible, with built-in skills support and many useful skills bundled — a small startup outpacing frontier labs at the browser-harness layer.
The quoted feature list covers authenticated web sign-in and task completion, multi-site workflows, stored credentials without exposing raw passwords, site allowlists, payment/post confirmations, logged-in database research, source/screenshot/timestamp capture, page and price monitoring, and pause-resume task flows.
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