https://blog.girishshekhar.com/tags/tooling/Recent content in Tooling on Girish ShekharHugo -- 0.163.3en-usWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.girishshekhar.com/posts/harness-is-the-agents/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.girishshekhar.com/posts/harness-is-the-agents/For two years we have talked about building agents as if an agent were a thing you construct. It isn’t. The harness — the loop, the tools, the context discipline — is the artifact you actually build, version, and debug. This post reframes the agent as emergent behavior, explains why agent frameworks now feel wrong-shaped in production, and offers a way to decide when to own the loop and when to rent it.