Orchestration Patterns: Loops, Graphs, Managers, and Handoffs
A practical look at orchestration patterns for agent systems, grounded in the live harness-engineering demo after adding workflow graph export for its approval-gated runner.
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Tool Calling, Schemas, and the Rise of MCP
Function calling and MCP make tool interfaces more portable and legible, but they do not replace retries, approvals, state, tracing, or orchestration. A practical look at the live harness-engineering demo after adding an …
Agentic Harness Engineering White Paper
A comprehensive white paper on agentic harness engineering: the runtime, tooling, controls, evals, and governance patterns that make AI agents reliable in production.
Anatomy of an Agent Harness
A practical teardown of the live harness-engineering demo: runner, tool registry, persistent state, CLI surface, provider boundary, and traces—and why those parts matter more than agent theater.
Why Agentic Harness Engineering Matters More Than Prompt Engineering
Production-grade agent systems fail less because of clever prompts than because of the runtime around the model: typed tools, explicit workflow state, approvals, retries, traces, and resumable execution.
The Watchdog: Setting up a Financial Analyst Agent
Start your day with a briefing, not a manual search. Today, we turn our OpenClaw agent into a Financial Watchdog—an autonomous observer that tracks markets, monitors your portfolio, and pings you only when it matters. In …
