Abstract diagram of an LLM connected to tools, checkpoints, approval gates, and trace logs

Why Agentic Harness Engineering Matters More Than Prompt Engineering

The live demo repo for this series is 67ailab/harness-engineering. This first post is grounded in the current public repo state rather than a made-up architecture diagram. For this article, I did not add a new repo feature before publishing; the existing baseline already supports the core claim. At the time of writing, that baseline includes typed tools, checkpointed run state, resumable execution, an approval gate before writing artifacts, per-step traces, a planner/reviewer split, and optional local OpenAI-compatible model support. ...

April 30, 2026 · 67 AI Lab
AI Financial Watchdog

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 Day 9 of the 67 AI Lab, we’re moving from “reactive” assistance (chatting) to “proactive” assistance (monitoring). Why a Watchdog? Most of us have a routine: wake up, check stocks, check crypto, read headlines. It’s repetitive. An AI agent can do this faster, better, and without emotion. ...

February 10, 2026 · 67 AI Lab