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## Harness Engineering Lens
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Birgitta Böckeler's [Harness Engineering](https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html) framing — **`Agent = Model + Harness`** — describes the controls built *around* a coding agent (separate from the model) to make its output trustworthy. This is not a pattern to adopt; it is a lens that explains *why* the patterns below work together. Every control is one of two kinds and runs in one of two ways:
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Birgitta Böckeler's [Harness Engineering](https://martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html) framing — **`Agent = Model + Harness`** — describes the controls built *around* a coding agent (separate from the model) to make its output trustworthy. Harness Engineering isn't one of the patterns in this catalog; it's a *lens* over them — a way of grouping the patterns below and understanding *why* you'd use them together. Every control is one of two kinds and runs in one of two ways:
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- **Feedforward (guides)** steer the agent *before* it acts.
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- **Feedback (sensors)** observe *after* it acts so it can self-correct.

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