Everything wrapped around the model that turns "it can talk" into "it can work".
What is a harness?
An AI model on its own can only talk: you ask, it answers, it stops.
The harness is all the machinery wrapped around the model that lets it
actually do work: tools, memory, safety rails, and the loop that keeps it going
until the job is done. Claude Code, Cursor, and your agent runtimes are all
harnesses around the same few models. ClawMetry is a window into that machinery.
Each part below links to the tab where you can watch it live.
(Good primer: What's harness engineering?)
🔁 The loop
The agent reads, decides, acts, checks its own work, and goes again until the task is done. This loop is what makes it an agent instead of a chatbot.