Sensors and Guides: Two Ways Your Harness Talks to Your Agent

<p>An agentic harness is the orchestration and control layer wrapped around a base language model that transforms it from a stateless text predictor into an agent capable of

<p>A few weeks back I gave a coding agent one instruction: <em>"fix the failing import and ship it."</em></p> <p>CI went green. The agent, which I'd allowed to self-merge when

<ul> <li>GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/gezilinll/agent-grove" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/gezilinll/agent-grove</a> </li> <li>Online

<p>Four agents entered an infinite loop in November 2025. They ran for 11 days. The bill was $47,000. Nobody noticed until it was over.</p> <p>The team was running a market

<p>On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally shipped the entire source code of Claude Code — its flagship AI coding agent — inside a routine npm update. No hack. No reverse

<p><a href="https://john.onlee.io/en/blog/agent-memory-retrospective-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Part 1</a> was about falling in. <a

<p>In December 2025, something remarkable happened in the fractious world of artificial intelligence. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and a constellation of other technology

<p>Vertex AI has been Google Cloud's AI development platform since 2021. On April 22, 2026, at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, Google retired it — not with a deprecation notice,