Your LLM Doesn’t Need Better Prompts — It Needs an Agent Harness
Summary
An article discusses the need for Agent Harness Engineering—structured systems with tool validation, context management, guardrails, telemetry, and verification loops—to make LLM agents reliable in production, arguing that better prompts alone are insufficient.
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