Towards Portable Specification of the Agent Harness

arXiv:2610.40917 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-29

Updated: 2026-10-29

Terminology

• Agent Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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