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Build a working AI agent with me in this live, hands-on workshop: https://vanishinggradients.short.gy/youtube-harness-course Use code HARNESS10 for 10% off. Read the annotated version, with the slides and links to each section: https://hugobowne.substack.com/p/how-to-build-an-effective-agent-harness You will start with a simple model call and leave with a fully functional customer-service agent. Along the way, you will add the reasoning loop, tools, state, context, guardrails, an agent SDK, and MCP, then learn how to adapt the architecture to your own enterprise use cases. Most advice about agent harnesses comes from coding agents. That becomes a problem when you are building a support agent that should resolve a request in one reply, a workflow with one reasoning step, or an enterprise agent with a small number of tightly controlled tools. In this Lightning Lesson, I build a working computer-use agent with four tools and roughly 147 lines of Python, then use it to organize a desktop through a reasoning loop. I also show how the same four-tool pattern runs part of my real YouTube publishing workflow: finding clips, cutting them with FFmpeg, adding word-highlighted captions and the Vanishing Gradients logo, verifying the results, and uploading drafts through the YouTube API. We then examine: • Why a workflow containing LLM calls is not automatically an agent • How Pi keeps the core agent small while OpenClaw grows a product around it • Why coding, deep-research, support, and conversational agents need different harnesses • How action complexity and context complexity help you decide what to build • Why every harness feature is a bet on something the model cannot reliably do • Why runtime agent harnesses and eval harnesses solve distinct problems • How production failures should determine which machinery you add next Read Stop Overengineering Your Agent Harness on O'Reilly Radar: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/stop-overengineering-your-agent-harness/ Explore the agent harness reading list: https://vanishinggradients.short.gy/effective-harness-resources CHAPTERS 00:00 The model is the brain. The harness lets it act 03:05 The average agent describes almost nobody 05:40 LLMs hit a ceiling when humans must do the work 07:25 The smallest useful agent: an LLM, tools, and a loop 08:40 Models in a workflow do not make it an agent 10:30 Four tools turn an LLM into a computer-use agent 11:05 Live demo: 147 lines of Python clean up my desktop 14:15 Coding agents are already general-purpose computer-use agents 15:00 The same four tools run my YouTube publishing pipeline 16:50 Krang explains the anatomy of an agent harness 18:10 Pi adds new capabilities while it is running 19:40 OpenClaw grows an entire product around a small loop 21:45 Map the job before you build the harness 22:45 Repositories grow; research evidence accumulates 24:50 Most enterprise agents should finish in one to five turns 27:20 Who chooses the next step: your code or the model? 30:15 Every harness feature is a bet against the model 32:40 Start with one real task and the shortest path 33:15 The runtime harness does the work. The eval harness measures it 34:50 Change one thing, even when it crosses several files 37:45 Automate the evals, not every release decision 40:10 Hand-roll your eval tools before you buy a platform MORE FROM VANISHING GRADIENTS Subscribe for independent AI podcasts, workshops, and practical writing for builders: https://hugobowne.substack.com/ Find upcoming livestreams and free workshops: https://luma.com/calendar/cal-8ImWFDQ3IEIxNWk Browse all Vanishing Gradients workshops: https://vanishinggradients.short.gy/youtube-workshops Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/JZ2WGdFDU Subscribe to Vanishing Gradients: https://www.youtube.com/@vanishinggradients #AIAgents #AgentHarness #AgenticAI #LLM
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