<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Harness Engineering on Ted Factory</title><link>https://tedfactory.com/en/tags/harness-engineering/</link><description>Recent content in Harness Engineering on Ted Factory</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:55:45 +0900</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://tedfactory.com/en/tags/harness-engineering/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Harness Engineering — A Practical Guide to Safe AI Agent Operations</title><link>https://tedfactory.com/en/notes/essays/harness-engineering-guide/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate><guid>https://tedfactory.com/en/notes/essays/harness-engineering-guide/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="harness-engineering--a-practical-guide-to-safe-ai-agent-operations"&gt;Harness Engineering — A Practical Guide to Safe AI Agent Operations&lt;a class="anchor" href="#harness-engineering--a-practical-guide-to-safe-ai-agent-operations"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2026-04-04&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://tedfactory.com/images/notes/harness-engineering-cover.png" alt="Harness Engineering" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="why-i-wrote-this"&gt;Why I Wrote This&lt;a class="anchor" href="#why-i-wrote-this"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I actively use AI agents (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) across multiple projects. At first, having an agent write code was impressive enough on its own. But as I integrated them more deeply into real projects, I kept running into recurring problems.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Every time I open a new session, the agent forgets the project conventions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;It repeats the same mistakes today that we already solved yesterday&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The quality of agent-generated code fluctuates wildly between sessions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;When managing multiple projects, I have to repeat the same setup for each one&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The root cause of these problems wasn&amp;rsquo;t a lack of agent intelligence — it was that the &lt;strong&gt;environment surrounding the agent was not properly set up&lt;/strong&gt;. As 2026 arrived, this concern spread across the industry and began to be systematized under the name &amp;ldquo;harness engineering.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>I Decided to Call Them Harness Skills — Breaking the Illusion of Doing Well and Opening Up My Harness</title><link>https://tedfactory.com/en/notes/essays/harness-skills-opening-my-harness/</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0900</pubDate><guid>https://tedfactory.com/en/notes/essays/harness-skills-opening-my-harness/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="i-decided-to-call-them-harness-skills--breaking-the-illusion-of-doing-well-and-opening-up-my-harness"&gt;I Decided to Call Them Harness Skills — Breaking the Illusion of Doing Well and Opening Up My Harness&lt;a class="anchor" href="#i-decided-to-call-them-harness-skills--breaking-the-illusion-of-doing-well-and-opening-up-my-harness"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2026-06-08&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://tedfactory.com/images/notes/harness-skills-opening-my-harness-cover.png" alt="Harness Skills — selectively absorbing external skills into your own harness" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="facing-things-without-a-name"&gt;Facing Things Without a Name&lt;a class="anchor" href="#facing-things-without-a-name"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When I first saw something called LLM Wiki, and then GStack, the first thing that came to mind was surprisingly: &amp;ldquo;What should I even call these?&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was clear that both were means for handling AI agents better. From the perspective of &lt;strong&gt;harness engineering&lt;/strong&gt; — the discipline of designing infrastructure to operate AI agents safely and reliably, which I covered in an earlier piece — these were obviously &amp;ldquo;tools you reach for when building a harness.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>