Type: url
Original: https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/skill-issue-harness-engineering-for-coding-agents
Status: partial
Summary
A HumanLayer blog post from March 12, 2026 arguing that most coding-agent failures are configuration problems rather than model problems, and describing the agent’s configuration surface as its harness. It frames harness engineering as a subset of context engineering and walks through CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files, MCP servers, skills, sub-agents, hooks and back-pressure, with HumanLayer’s own practices and what did and did not work for them.