When I hear "coding agent", I think of both the harness and the LLM as a pair. Like, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code is a coding agent, or Gemini 3 Pro and Pi is a coding agent.
"Harness" is a way to reference the coding agent minus the "LLM" part.
If an agent is an LLM in a loop with tool calls, there are two components: 1) the LLM. 2) The loop with tool calls. That second part could be called the harness.
rytill|3 days ago
"Harness" is a way to reference the coding agent minus the "LLM" part.
If an agent is an LLM in a loop with tool calls, there are two components: 1) the LLM. 2) The loop with tool calls. That second part could be called the harness.
furryrain|4 days ago
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