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Skill Issue: Harness Engineering for Coding Agents

Skill Issue: Harness Engineering for Coding Agents

Why it matters

Defined harness engineering as a subset of context engineering, with the concepts of a context firewall and back-pressure

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Officialhumanlayer.devhttps://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/skill-issue-harness-engineering-for-coding-agents

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