harness-books
Harness engineering in two books: constraints, query loops, context governance and multi-agent verification in Claude Code and Codex. harness-books.agentway.dev
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- Language: Python
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Install
git clone https://github.com/wquguru/harness-books && cp harness-books/*.md ~/.claude/agents/- Clone the repository and copy the agent .md definitions into ~/.claude/agents (or .claude/agents inside a project).
- Start a new Claude Code session to load the agents.
- Delegate work to them with the Task/Agent tool or by name.
Editor's note
Harness Books is a two-volume written resource, available to read online or download as PDFs, that examines the engineering principles behind AI coding agents, with Claude Code as the primary subject of Book 1 and a side-by-side comparison of Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in Book 2. Rather than walking through source code, the books analyze how harness components, specifically the control plane, query loop, tool permissions, context governance via CLAUDE.md and compact operations, failure recovery, and multi-agent verification, work together to keep an agent system bounded and accountable inside real terminal and repository environments. Book 2 focuses on where each system places architectural authority, contrasting Claude Code's runtime discipline against Codex's more structured control layer. The books target developers and engineering teams building or evaluating coding agents, with a particular emphasis on converting individual operational experience into reusable institutional rules. One concrete focus is treating model errors as runtime norms rather than exceptions and designing recovery paths accordingly.
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