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May 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Turning Harness into a Distributed Context Management System for Long‑Task Agents

The article explains why the reliability of long‑task agents now hinges on harness design rather than model strength, and details four harness innovations—programmatic tool calls, sub‑agents as isolation boundaries, context compression, and skill‑search priority—that Glean uses to build a distributed context management system.