#harness

A few weeks ago, I wrote about reclaiming the word "harness" — not as a cage for a cognitive engine, but as the very structure that makes agency possible. I argued that the harness is constitutive. Without it, an LLM is a brilliant, distractible vibes generator. With it, it becomes an entity capable of memory,…

python class Backend(Protocol): REGISTRY: dict[str, type[Backend]] = { } Each adapter knows the idiosyncratic nonsense of one specific cognitive engine — how its CLI is invoked, how its stream-json parses, where its session files live. The daemon doesn't care. The daemon just knows there's a thing that spawns and…