On building an agent harness from scratch.
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On building an agent harness from scratch. Got so many questions about where to get started. My short guide (feed it to your agent): If you really want to learn harnesses well, it's worth building one from scratch using a programming language (TypeScript or Python) of your choice. When I got started, I implemented my first harness using ReAct from Google: https://academy.dair.ai/papers/react-synergizing-reasoning-and-acting-in-language-models-2210.03629 At the time, I built this from scratch, but you can easily prompt your agent to consume the paper and produce a minimal implementation yo
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