best of the best agentic harnesses do this…

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Summary

The author shares insights on building effective agent harnesses: the best ones minimize LLM reliance for trivial tasks and reserve LLMs for complex reasoning, distinguishing genuine harnesses from simple wrappers.

i have built and used a lot of agent harnesses. i found out one thing: \- the harnesses which depend the “LEAST” on the LLMs often give the best performance also the harnesses that almost always depend on the LLMs are wrappers and not harnesses. your harness needs to use LLM for decision making, and very complex reasoning stuff, not all the trivial stuff. thats what separates wrappers from good harnesses. what do you think?
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