I’ve been trying to write about coding agents for a while. Each time I sit down, the ground has shifted. The models change, my own workflow changes, and whatever I had to say feels stale before I finish saying it. But one thing has stayed constant: the agents that do good work are the ones that know how I work. The ones I drop into a codebase cold, with no context, produce garbage. Complaining about that is like calling a new hire incompetent on day one because they didn’t already know your codebase. You wouldn’t do that to a person — you’d onboard them. Research the codebase, make a plan, then write code. That’s what a harness does for an agent. https://www.martinrichards.me/post/building/_your/_own/_agent/_harness/ submitted by /u/martinffx
Originally posted by u/martinffx on r/ClaudeCode