WHAT IS / AN AGENT HARNESS
Alex Getman @alexgetmancom · 7 Jul 2026, 15:56 UTCTools & updatesWHAT IS / AN AGENT HARNESSWHAT IS / AN AGENT HARNESS×Previous imageNext imageAgent harnessesРусская версияMarkdownRelated posts30 OctHerdr finally launched its desktop app! • Redesign the entire UI just by prompting an agent • Let Claude Code and Codex spawn other agents • Get results delivered back automatically • Manage agents across remote machines via SSH • Create Git worktrees and launch agents for…ClaudeHerdrAgent harnessesSubagents21 OctClaude Duet, a proactive AI agent from Anthropic, is coming soon. OpenAI has Dots, xAI has Grok Bot, and there’s also Hermes Agent. Now Anthropic is joining the race. Looks like we’re moving from the era of coding harnesses to the era of proactive agents that can orchestrate…ClaudeAnthropicClaude DuetAgent harnesses20 SepFinished my ClaudeCut experiment. I wanted to see how much of a $20 Claude subscription actually goes into the work, and how much gets eaten by Claude Code itself. I cut it down to one terminal tool, a 36-token system prompt, and a capped context window. Startup dropped from…ClaudeAnthropicClaude CodeContext managementAgent harnesses19 SepI castrated Claude Code. Ripped almost everything out and left only the bare minimum: read, inspect, write. Startup context is now under 2k tokens. I also capped the context window at 200k tokens so it compacts earlier instead of chewing through my limits with bloated context.…ClaudeAnthropicClaude CodeContext managementAgent harnesses
30 OctHerdr finally launched its desktop app! • Redesign the entire UI just by prompting an agent • Let Claude Code and Codex spawn other agents • Get results delivered back automatically • Manage agents across remote machines via SSH • Create Git worktrees and launch agents for…ClaudeHerdrAgent harnessesSubagents
21 OctClaude Duet, a proactive AI agent from Anthropic, is coming soon. OpenAI has Dots, xAI has Grok Bot, and there’s also Hermes Agent. Now Anthropic is joining the race. Looks like we’re moving from the era of coding harnesses to the era of proactive agents that can orchestrate…ClaudeAnthropicClaude DuetAgent harnesses
20 SepFinished my ClaudeCut experiment. I wanted to see how much of a $20 Claude subscription actually goes into the work, and how much gets eaten by Claude Code itself. I cut it down to one terminal tool, a 36-token system prompt, and a capped context window. Startup dropped from…ClaudeAnthropicClaude CodeContext managementAgent harnesses
19 SepI castrated Claude Code. Ripped almost everything out and left only the bare minimum: read, inspect, write. Startup context is now under 2k tokens. I also capped the context window at 200k tokens so it compacts earlier instead of chewing through my limits with bloated context.…ClaudeAnthropicClaude CodeContext managementAgent harnesses
