AI Engineer · September 14, 2026

Harness Engineering: Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain Agents — Mike Chambers, AWS

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Why it matters

Mike Chambers puts a dictionary entry on screen: a harness is a set of straps and fastenings used to control an animal. Swap animal for model and the definition holds. His working version is subtraction. Take an agent, remove the model, and everything left over is the harness.

My takeaway: Harness Engineering: Building the Production Cage for Powerful Domain Agents — Mike Chambers, AWS is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.

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