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Harnesses should enable orchestration instead of rigid workflows
Harnesses should enable orchestration instead of rigid workflows
Karanam says modern agent harnesses should expose useful primitives such as tools and private information while allowing the agent to orchestrate them rather than forcing predefined execution flows.
- Speaker
- Arjun Karanam
- Topic
- Agent Harnesses
- Source timestamp
- 4:30
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