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Harness Engineering 101 — building AI agents from first principles. The LLM is the brain; the harness is the body. Why it matters: worth a look if you build or run autonomous agents.

GitHub description: Harness Engineering 101 — building AI agents from first principles. The LLM is the brain; the harness is the body.

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284

Last 24h

+32

Last 7 days

+224est.

Forks

12

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Last 2 hours · +6 stars

Hourly star count for IsuruMaduranga/harness-engineering-101284278Oct 20, 2 AM UTCOct 20, 3 AM UTC

Daily, since Oct 19, 2026 · 252 → 284

Daily star count for IsuruMaduranga/harness-engineering-101284252Oct 19, 2026Oct 20, 2026

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Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body128 points · 64 comments · Oct 19, 2026

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About harness-engineering-101

IsuruMaduranga/harness-engineering-101 is a Python project in the AI agents category, created 43 days ago. It has 284 GitHub stars and 12 forks, and gained +224 stars over the last 7 days (early estimate), ranking #58 of 87 AI agents repos tracked by OSS Radar this week.

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Language
Python
Category
AI agents
Created
Sep 6, 2026
Last code push
today (Oct 19, 2026)
Latest release
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