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Re:Building agents without harness engineering by rajit on Thursday June 11, 2026 @05:00PM (#48496328)
Thanks for the feedback. The main idea is that today to built a best-in-class agent, developers build the agent loop, session management, tools, memory, skills, automations (cron + trigger-based), sandboxed deployment, and self-learning.

By providing Hermes with a system prompt, custom tools, and skills, developers get the agent loop, session management, automations, sandboxed deployment, and self-learning for free.

Re:Building agents without harness engineering by usernametaken29 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @05:25PM (#48496648)
But effectively they’re deferring harness engineering onto another developer?? I don’t understand how this is different than any other library, ever
Re:Building agents without harness engineering by rajit on Thursday June 11, 2026 @05:37PM (#48496785)
Yes by using us developers are deferring the harness engineering onto us, and they can spend time writing code for their business logic.

We are closer to infrastructure than a library or framework; we give developers a live agent they can chat with in a single API call.