Harness Engineering: building the environment that makes coding agents reliable
Pavan_Belagatti · x · 2026-09-16
Harness Engineering argues that code generation is only a small part of real software engineering: a useful agent must also understand its service, owning team, dependencies, engineering rules, permitted-change scope, and how to verify correctness. The guide explains the concept and walks through two implementations: a controlled payment bug fix and a scorecard-based deployment gate.
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