The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
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.
subagent — A separate agent spawned by another to do one scoped piece of work in its own context, returning only the result.
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.
Why it matters
A working pattern for surviving a contribution flood: agents triage issues and review pull requests so humans only see high-signal ones, with sandboxes managed or self-hosted and consistent state across whichever 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 → a developer prefers.
