A thousand tools, one small backpack
Put Codex, Claude Code, Hermes Agent, and DeepSeek-style Code Mode beside the same hypothetical 50,000-tool company and compare what actually reaches the model.
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#harness
Production AI engineering notes tagged “harness” by Kaushal Prajapati.
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Open model accuracy is a harness problem
Open model accuracy is also a systems problem. Hermes Agent narrows tool choices, repairs safe mistakes, preserves context, and helps smaller models finish.
hermes-agent architecture: caching outranks compaction
The hermes-agent architecture at a glance: why the largest open-source agent harness ships both of its cheap context reducers switched off, and what that buys.
hermes-agent internals, one component at a time
A component-by-component study of hermes-agent internals: the loop, the prompt, the cache plan, compaction, state, approvals, and what each one costs.