Whitepaper
Long-Horizon Agents, Managed Harnesses, and Context Discipline
Why serious agent systems succeed through harness design, not prompt cleverness alone.
Abstract
The strongest agent systems are rarely those with the cleverest prompts. They are the systems with the best harnesses. Long-horizon performance depends on context discipline, state management, memory strategy, task decomposition, tool quality, and intervention design.
Managed Harness Pattern
This paper distinguishes workflows from agents, emphasizes managed harnesses over free autonomy, and proposes design patterns for durable state, short-lived working memory, progress tracking, stop conditions, human intervention, tool traces, and recovery.