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Module II — Harness Anatomy

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Full dissection of an agent harness:

Observation
Context
Control Loop
Tools
Memory
State
Verification
Execution

Study: context manager; tool registry; execution loop; state machine; memory; sandbox; retries; termination; checkpoints; evaluator.

Lab

Build a Minimal Agent Harness.

Lab: ../labs/L2-minimal-harness.md