Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden
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Why it matters
Anthropic's platform team describes where its developer abstractions are heading, from knowledge and execution toward a coordination layer that assigns different roles to model calls. This helps you plan AI agentAn 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.Full definition → architecture around where the platform is going.
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.