Comment by bcrosby95
1 day ago
> especially as the session drags on.
This is because these harnesses are missing a very important feature. Anything like this needs to be included with every turn, otherwise the LLM quickly drifts.
I first noticed it when I wrote a harness for D&D (because it's so damn noticeable there), but now I include this for any harness I write.
That's what system reminders do in most harnesses. https://michaellivs.com/blog/system-reminders-steering-agent...
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks
https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/hooks
I totally agree that hooks help to shovel our instructions through to Claude, but it's so dumb we have to waste tons of tokens (repeated verbatim, over and over) (that we pay for), just to have it ignore the instructions anyway.
I wrote a little bit about it on my blog post. It's a waste of money and compute.
https://zachahn.com/posts/1787191554
I’d be interested in seeing and using this harness if you’re willing to share