Training Data · Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Katelyn Lesse outlined Anthropic's abstraction layers, starting with knowledge, then execution, and finally coordination. At the coordination layer, they are developing 'strategies' or meta-harnesses that allow tokens to be given different jobs, such as advising versus executing. This layered approach aims to enable the composition of strategies that ladder together for end-to-end execution and knowledge utilization.
“Yeah, maybe one framing I would give, um, so, you know, if you look at the last layer of abstraction on top of this, is probably the coordination layer. We have knowledge, then we have execution, then we have coordination.”
“And at the coordination layer, we're beginning to think of these things called like strategies. Where basically, it's almost like a meta harness. The true low level harness is designed for execution.”
“But the next one is about, okay, if tokens aren't really fungible and you need to give them different jobs, like maybe this token is advising versus this token is executing. You want to start composing these like orchestrate strategies that go together.”