StudioHow to build a harness that actually improves your agent, based on 57 papers
Original title: How to build a harness that actually improves your agent (based on 57 papers)
Summarizing 57 papers and personal experience, u/Marmelab lays out six harness practices: mine past sessions for rules, delete rules you can't prove help, keep instruction files short (OpenAI cut its main AGENTS.md to around 100 lines), use fewer tools (Vercel removed 80% of tools and success went from 80% to 100% with latency dropping from 724 to 141 seconds), back rules with scripts (research found only 4-16% of written security rules had real effect), and regularly prune stale rules. University of Toronto research shows the same model can see up to 6x performance gaps depending on harness design.
Drawing on 57 papers and hands-on cases, the author distills reusable harness practices like trimming instruction files, cutting tools, and enforcing rules with scripts.
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