The term "agent harness" has gained prominence across major AI platforms like OpenAI, IBM, and Google, yet lacks a unified definition. Various companies utilize it differently, emphasizing its role in coordinating AI models with context and execution. This post explores the term's meaning and its significance within AI development frameworks.
From Idea to Responsibility: Why AI Coding Needs Engineering Provenance
AI coding agents increasingly participate in planning, implementation, review, testing, and documentation. This raises a new engineering question: who actually created the software artifact? This post explores why Git history alone is no longer sufficient, how engineering provenance could capture the role of humans, agents, models, tools, and context, and why this matters for intellectual property, accountability, and risk. The broader shift may no longer be from coding to review, but from idea to responsibility.
