Harness Engineering: Anatomy, Architecture, and Evolution of Coding Agents -- A Source-Code Study of Eleven Systems
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Paul Barbaste, Tristan Darrigol, Germain Vu, Tom Wiltberger
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Paul Barbaste, Tristan Darrigol, Germain Vu, Tom Wiltberger
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context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
Why it matters
The closest thing yet to a reference architecture for the runtime around a coding model: loop, tools, context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → management, safety controls, orchestration and extension surfaces, compared implementation by implementation.
