Harness Architecture

An agent's context window is its working memory — finite and precious. The craft of harness programming is migrating the right information to the right context layer, so the agent always has enough awareness to make good decisions without drowning in details it doesn't yet need.

Two concerns, one discipline: context architecture (what the agent knows) and agent lifecycle (how the agent works across time). They meet at artifacts — an artifact is both information (context) and a mechanism for continuity (lifecycle).

Commands

When invoked with an argument, dispatch to the corresponding file: