agentic-harness-patterns
Installation
SKILL.md
Agentic Harness Patterns
Production AI coding agents are not just an LLM calling tools in a loop. The harness — memory, skills, safety, context control, delegation, and extensibility — is what separates a demo from a production system.
For: Engineers building or extending coding-agent runtimes, custom agents, or advanced multi-agent workflows. Not for: Prompt engineering, model selection, generic software architecture, or LLM API basics.
All principles are distilled from production runtime decisions. Claude Code is used as grounding evidence, not as the only possible implementation.
Choose Your Problem
| If you want to... | Read |
|---|---|
| Make the agent remember and improve over time | Memory |
| Package reusable workflows and expertise | Skills |
| Let the agent use tools powerfully but not dangerously | Tools and Safety |
| Give the agent the right context at the right cost | Context Engineering |
| Split work across multiple agents without losing control | Multi-agent Coordination |
| Extend behavior with hooks, background tasks, or startup logic | Lifecycle and Extensibility |