Editorial standards

Who publishes

Harness the Agents is an independent publication about agent harnesses: the systems that turn models into agents, and the discipline of operating them. It is edited by Adam Maguire Wilson and published under his name at adam.mw. Nothing appears anonymously, and every article carries its desk and its date.

How stories are chosen

The beat is narrow on purpose. We cover harnesses, runtimes, tooling, security and governance, and the moments where a demo meets a production environment. A story earns its place if someone operating these systems would make a different decision after reading it. Launch-week noise doesn't qualify on its own.

How stories are checked

Primary sources first: release notes, documentation, papers, repositories and benchmarks we can re-run. Vendor claims are printed as vendor claims, with the vendor named. Where we test something ourselves, the piece says so and describes the setup. Figures we can't verify either don't appear, or appear plainly labelled as reported rather than audited. When we get it wrong anyway, the corrections policy applies.

How we use AI

This publication covers agent harnesses, and it runs on them too. Automated systems help us watch sources, assemble briefings, draft and translate. A human editor decides what gets published, checks the claims that matter against primary sources, and approves every piece before it goes live. Editorial judgement and responsibility stay human. Where an automated system contributed to an article in a way that matters to you as a reader, the article says so.

We think this is the honest version of where publishing is heading, and we'd rather describe it than pretend otherwise.

Independence

Vendors don't fund this publication and don't get a say in its conclusions. There is no sponsored content and there are no paid placements. No one pays for a review, and no one pays for a kind one. If any of that ever changes, it will be labelled at the top of the piece, in plain words, before you read anything else.

Translations

The site is published in 14 languages. The English version is canonical. The rest are machine-assisted translations reviewed for technical terminology, and where the wording matters, the English text governs. If a translation reads oddly, that's a bug: tell us through the contact page.

Updates

Articles are updated when the facts move. A material change updates the date shown at the top of the piece, so what you see is what we currently believe to be true, not what was true at launch.