Google releases free 2-hour course on Agent Harness Engineering, from prompt to self-improving agents
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-09-19
Google has released a free 2-hour course on Agent Harness Engineering, walking from a single prompt to a self-improving harness.
The curriculum covers:
- Building your first AI agent (10:16)
- Mastering prompt engineering (41:05)
- Turning agents into graphs (54:45)
- Running loops inside an agent harness (1:20:10)
- Building a harness that improves itself (1:43:33)
The accompanying article lays out a 6-layer harness framework: a better prompt improves one answer, a better harness improves every run — addressing agents that forget constraints, pick wrong tools, skip verification, or loop endlessly.
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