AI Agent Harness
The operating layer around a model that supplies instructions, tools, context, memory, permissions, execution loops, logs and human approval controls.
AI Agent Harness is the operating layer around a model that supplies instructions, tools, context, memory, permissions, execution loops, logs and human approval controls.
It appears repeatedly across the KUOS case library because leaders need it at a real decision point: defining a boundary, assigning an owner, choosing evidence or deciding whether to scale.
Use it in practice by naming one current workflow, the accountable human, the evidence you expect and the condition that would make you change course.
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Bounded roles
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Visible hand-offs
OUTCOME
Human owner
AGENTS & WORKFLOWS
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