Practical AI · Thursday, August 6, 2026
Daniel Weineck clarifies the concept of agentic harnesses, describing them as software systems that manage and orchestrate multiple AI agents. He likens these harnesses to an 'operating system for AI,' enabling agents to work together to accomplish tasks.
“Yeah, we're like, if you, if you, you know, just we've used this before, if you think about the model, that function that's trying to do something fairly sophisticated, uh, its output is kind of being the brain.”
“But we're the big change in the last years has been agentics. Uh, and, uh, that's where you have one or more agents that are a type of software that is a task to go do something out in the world.”
“And they are managed by that agentic harness that you referenced, which is a software system, uh, I've heard it described as an operating system for AI, where it is, it is accessing the models you're using.”
“It has managing the agents and orchestrating what they are doing and how they are working on that.”