Some agent harnesses duplicate tools while minimal ones stay powerful
yb2698 · x · 2026-10-07
Thread continuation: some harnesses write the same job multiple times — e.g., terminal execution exposed as both exec and bash — while other harnesses are extremely minimal, exposing very few tools yet remaining very powerful on real-world tasks.
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