Agentic Harness Workflow: Engineering AI Coding into a Fixed Pipeline with Specialized Sub-Agents
The author presents a self-built framework that decomposes AI-assisted development into a fixed 12-stage pipeline — from requirement clarification to archival — each executed by a dedicated sub-agent orchestrated by a central Manager, with state persisted to disk, human approval gates at critical steps, and git worktree isolation for parallel requirements.
