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#agent-engineering

agent-computer-interface concept ACI: design tools for Agent goals, not API endpoints; when-to-use descriptions; structured errors. agent-evaluation concept Runtime Agent eval: Pass@k vs Pass^k, grader types; eval as the RSI bottleneck. agent-legibility concept Designing systems for the agent's eye, not the human's; logs, metrics, code all agent-readable. agent-loop concept The ~20-line ReAct loop; Workflow vs Agent; five control patterns; loop as optimization target. agent-memory concept Four memory types (working/procedural/episodic/semantic); MEMORY.md + consolidation. agent-sandboxing concept Sandbox as OS-enforced execution boundary; per-OS primitives; Codex-on-Windows design axes. agentic-context-engineering concept ACE: context as evolving playbook; Generator/Reflector/Curator; incremental bullets only. architectural-invariants concept Strict layering enforced by custom linters with embedded fix instructions. claude-subagents concept Spawned Claude instances with isolated context; about isolation, not parallelism. codebase-as-system-of-record concept "If the agent can't find it in the repo, it doesn't exist"; versioned artifacts as truth. context-engineering concept Choosing what enters the LLM context; steering-not-teaching; tiers, Context Rot, compaction. entropy-and-garbage-collection concept Golden principles + scheduled cleanup tasks; debt paid down in small installments. evolutionary-search-llm concept Evolutionary optimization for LLM programs: AlphaEvolve, DGM, Promptbreeder, ADAS, AFlow. harness concept Acceptance + boundary + signal + fallback around the loop; matters more than model choice. llm-agent concept Weng's 2023 anatomy: LLM brain + Planning + Memory + Tool use; ancestor of the wiki's agent pages. long-running-agents concept Initializer + Coding Agent split; state externalized to files; release autonomy in order. loop-engineering concept Anthropic's four-type loop taxonomy (turn/goal/time/proactive); the hand-off ladder. multi-agent-orchestration concept Orchestrator + workers; JSONL inbox protocol, worktree isolation, hallucination amplification. plan-mode concept Read-only exploration mode; refines a plan before any file is touched. prompt-injection concept Source-sink decomposition; tag untrusted content; independent LLM verifier; sandbox as sink-cutting. ralph-wiggum-loop concept Agent self-review pattern: loop until every reviewer + verifier is satisfied; Codex's PR cycle. react concept Reasoning + Acting; the bridge that lets language priors generalize across RL environments. recursive-self-improvement concept RSI: AI improving its own machinery; the near-term path is harness optimization, not weights. self-improving-harness concept An LLM optimizing its own harness: STOP, Self-Harness, DGM; propose-evaluate-accept loops. self-reflection concept Reflexion / Chain of Hindsight / Algorithm Distillation; ancestor of verifier + ralph-wiggum loops. six-layer-agent-architecture concept Tw93's Claude Code frame: CLAUDE.md / Tools+MCP / Skills / Hooks / Subagents / Verifiers. task-decomposition concept Planning by subgoals: CoT, Tree of Thoughts, LLM+P; the decomposition half of agent Planning. tool-use concept MRKL/Toolformer/HuggingGPT/API-Bank; "when & how to call" is the crux; ancestor of ACI + MCP. verifier-loop concept The closing layer; "Claude said done" isn't done — bind acceptance criteria up front. openclaw entity Peter Steinberger's self-hosted personal-AI-assistant daemon; case study in Tw93's Agent essay. peter-steinberger entity PSPDFKit founder; creator of [[openclaw]]. ryan-lopopolo entity OpenAI engineer; author of [[2026-04-27-harness-engineering-codex-agent-first]]. tw93 entity Alibaba/Fliggy engineer; author of all three seed essays and of [[kaku]]. harness-why-it-matters-now note Why "Harness" clustered into a thesis in Q1–Q2 2026; five enabling conditions; two postscripts. 2026-04-27-agent-principles-architecture-engineering source Tw93's general-Agent companion essay: Harness > model, ACI tool design, OpenClaw walkthrough. 2026-04-27-claude-code-architecture-governance-engineering source Tw93's six-layer frame for Claude Code: context, tools, Skills, Hooks, Subagents, verifiers. 2026-07-07-harness-engineering-self-improvement source Lilian Weng's Jul 2026 survey: harness engineering as the near-term path to RSI.
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