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Maybe neologism, also based on AI sources

Latest comment: 1 month ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The sources cited may be written by AI. I cannot tell. But also in the AI development industry, humans get AI to write their documentation, so this could be an exceptional case.

The sources I am citing here are at the fringe of Wikipedia's WP:Reliable source guidelines. The named authors are established subject matter experts.

I do not usually write tech topics but I was seeing this term everywhere and it seems fundamental in discussions. The article test harness, made in 2005, is not the same concept.

I think this term is about a year old, so is currently a WP:NEO. I do not understand enough about this to be confident that right now it merits a stand alone Wikipedia article. Bluerasberry (talk) 15:33, 7 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for creating this! Massively important topic, very much in readers best interests for us to have an article about it. The concept began to be widely discussed in 2023, though back then the term agent scaffolding was more widely used - even right now you'd probably find more mentions in high tier WP:RS if you searched using 'scaffold'. But in 2025 harness very much became the dominant term, so this is the best title.

I may come back later & improve coverage of 'harness engineering' in relation to the other AI engineering layers - all of which have been a thing since about 2020, but prompt engineering only began to be widely talked about in 2022 , context engineering in 2025 , with harness, loop & most recently graph engineering only getting well recognised labels in 2026. Waiting for a good source that puts then all in context & ideally contrasts with training/ pre-training. FeydHuxtable (talk) 11:00, 22 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Maybe neologism, also based on AI sources