Loop & Harness EngineeringAnthropic Labs (Prithvi Rajasekaran)Anthropic

Harness design for long-running application development

Harness design for long-running application development

Why it matters

3 agents — Planner, Generator, Evaluator; a single agent ran 20 minutes for $9 versus 6 hours for $200 with the full harness

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