Comment by rob

6 hours ago

What's with this "harness" word people have been trying to adopt lately? Are we all going rock climbing?

A harness is just a piece of software that exposes APIs for reading files, connecting to the internet, etc.

It parses the LLM output for tool calls, executes the command, and puts the output back into the LLM input. That's all there is to it.

I think a better term would be bridle, but most people don't know it. But they do put harnesses on their kids and pets.