Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones
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Munder Difflin's Agent Harness Enables Autonomous Team Clones
Developers can now deploy 24/7 AI agents that mimic team workflows autonomously on personal machines.
Why it mattersAgent systems are evolving from simple interactions to complex, autonomous workflows. For developers, this means new challenges in security, orchestration, and maintaining a balance between AI autonomy and human oversight.
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Agent Adventures
Sources/skills for creating own agent?
hey! i'm building my own agent - my goal is to run it 100% locally on my home server. can't use Hermes or OpenClaw as they are bloated with prompts, tools and other things that are taking up too much of context, for loc…
r/AI_Agents
AI Skills Under Siege
Digging the grave of my skills: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
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theguardian
What actually breaks first when AI agents go from demo to daily use?
The gap I keep seeing is not model quality. It’s context, permissions, and the weird edge cases nobody wants to think about until the agent touches a real system. A demo can look amazing when the inputs are clean and th…
r/AI_Agents
Anyone actually running video models in production?
Curious what people here are using for video generation inside agent workflows. I’ve been looking at Seedance, Kling, and a few others, but the API costs seem to vary a lot once you start doing retries and multiple ge…
r/AI_Agents
Tools
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
github | stars 107,984
nexu-io/open-design
🎨 Best DeepSeek Harness Design Plugin. The open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Local-first desktop app. 🖼️ Your coding agent becomes the design engine: prototypes, landin…
github | stars 90,352
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Research
Task-CoEvolve: Efficient Harness Optimization via Adaptive Validation Task Selection
We present a novel approach to efficient LLM agent harness optimization through adaptive validation task selection. Harness optimization iteratively rewrites the harness code based on validation performance, enabling su…
arxiv
An Agentic Approach for Active Data Collection, Travel Behavior Modeling, and Weather-Sensitive Demand Prediction
Travel behavior research increasingly combines digital data collection with predictive modeling, yet these stages are often developed and evaluated separately. This study proposes a three-agent workflow integrating conv…
arxiv
Multi-Agent Orchestration with the Common-Sense Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs for Autonomous Driving
Autonomous vehicles require robust perception and decision-making capabilities to operate in diverse and unseen scenarios. While reinforcement learning and rule-based methods can provide effective control and safety mec…
arxiv
Playbooks
Building a 100x Cheaper Trace Judge with Fireworks
LangChain and Fireworks fine-tuned an open model to mine perceived error signals from production traces, matching frontier model performance at a fraction of the cost.
langchain
The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released
Your agents can now be built on a stable, batteries-included harness – the loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and telemetry that turn a model into an agent that actually does things – in both Python…
devblogs.microsoft
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
Agents still face challenges working across many context windows. We looked to human engineers for inspiration in creating a more effective harness for long-running agents.
anthropic
News
Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for building a governe…
aws.amazon
pipelock v3.4.0
Open-source AI agent firewall that scans HTTP, MCP, A2A, and WebSocket traffic for exfiltration, SSRF, and prompt injection, emitting verifiable signed action receipts for audit.
kitploit
Benchmarking GitHub Copilot Agent Plugins Across VS Code and CLI
Benchmark GitHub Copilot Agent Plugins across VS Code and Copilot CLI to compare portability, tool latency, context handling, workflow behavior, and performance.
c-sharpcorner