Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything I've been thinking about how to free LLMs from the chat pane for a few years now. Watching what people have tried and seeing what worked (and didn't), I've formed my own opinions on the right way to approach it. Here are my thoughts, and what I've been working on recently. What Makes a Good Harness I. Should be naturally intuitive to the Agent. II. Everything should be transparent so that the Agent can self-develop or heal (or audited postmortem). III. Must be as lean as possible and flexible. IV. Error survival, update survival, no memory corruption or degradation over time. With the advancing intelligence of LLMs, harnesses will eventually be reliable . The real matter at hand is reducing how much cognitive load (measured in tokens) you are putting on your bot. Preliminary Truths The most important things we've learned over the years. Determinism as much as possible.…