Use ACP-compatible harnesses with the AI SDK harness layer
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Felix Arntz
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Felix Arntz
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
agent harness — The scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
Anyone building on top of coding agents can now target a protocol instead of maintaining one adapter per runtime. That collapses the integration cost of supporting a new agent harnessThe scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.Full definition → to a small config block.
