Loop & Harness EngineeringXu et al. (TheAgentCompany)

The phrase "agent harness" appears in the body of a paper

The phrase "agent harness" appears in the body text of a paper

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The full text confirms that the term was used in the evaluation community first, before it went mainstream

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/html/2412.14161v3

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