Field notes

Zen of Harness Engineering

Formerly the Zen of Vibe Coding. Now that AI coding is really about designing the constraints that let agents do the work, these are working notes on Harness Engineering.

  1. Harness Optimization in Practice: Agent Tool Optimization | Notes on Iterating agy-staff

  2. agy-staff: Making Gemini a Staff Member for Codex / Claude Code

  3. How to Think About the grill-me Skill?

  4. Why Is Codex Always Auto-Compacting?

  5. Distilling Claude Code Source into an Agent Skill — A Harness Engineering Practice