Homebrew harness and all frontier ones plus deepseek. All via Openrouter at the moment. Works well enough but can get expensive so use for real high value challenges. Interestingly the refine feature has been most useful to me and people I have shown, essentially people are lazy when expressing the initial problem (me included!), refine asks relevant questions to initial problem then refines the initial statement, user can accept/reject/edit before submitting.
I came to a similar conclusion. I think the default options in many IDEs (Ask/Plan/Agent) are limited... 'Refine' feels like an improved 'Plan' in that it doesn't just jump right into building a list of tasks based on the initial prompt, because who knows what sort of flaws or deficiencies were present in the initial prompt! Can't always get everything right in the first try. XP
I don't think a specific harness is even necessary to get a boost from 'Refine'. Even a simple custom agent is portable enough... it's easy enough to take the existing 'Plan' agent definition present in VS Code and tweak it to be 'Refine' instead.
Homebrew harness and all frontier ones plus deepseek. All via Openrouter at the moment. Works well enough but can get expensive so use for real high value challenges. Interestingly the refine feature has been most useful to me and people I have shown, essentially people are lazy when expressing the initial problem (me included!), refine asks relevant questions to initial problem then refines the initial statement, user can accept/reject/edit before submitting.
I came to a similar conclusion. I think the default options in many IDEs (Ask/Plan/Agent) are limited... 'Refine' feels like an improved 'Plan' in that it doesn't just jump right into building a list of tasks based on the initial prompt, because who knows what sort of flaws or deficiencies were present in the initial prompt! Can't always get everything right in the first try. XP
I don't think a specific harness is even necessary to get a boost from 'Refine'. Even a simple custom agent is portable enough... it's easy enough to take the existing 'Plan' agent definition present in VS Code and tweak it to be 'Refine' instead.
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