July 26, 2026 / Latest Daily Edition / 5 stories in this issue
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An Agent’s Answer Begins in the Harness

The model only sees the task after a runtime has edited its context, carried forward state, and decided what survived the last turn—so the first question after a bad run is what the harness made it see.

Hand-drawn chain from workspace trust, tool output, history, and session approvals into a prompt before a model answer, with a caveat that a source change is not a model score.
Diagram PunkA model answer arrives after a harness has assembled context, policy, and recovery state.
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