Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?
Since that’s easiest to implement locally, many coding agents started out as terminal tools and then desktop apps (Claude Code famously began as a CLI tool).
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Key points
- At a high level, coding agents have a basic architecture: an LLM calls tools in a loop, while carrying forward the required context.
- But as the open laptop meme illustrates, modern agent harnesses have frustrating limitations if they’re not able to be managed in the cloud.
- The most interesting product of Stacklok is Mecatl, a “cloud-native harness” begun in June as an open source project on GitHub.
- In any case, what does cloud-native mean in the context of a harness?
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- [1]Can a Cloud-Native Harness Make Agents Reliable Beyond the Desktop?Latent Space · Oct 7, 02:10 PM
Since that’s easiest to implement locally, many coding agents started out as terminal tools and then desktop apps (Claude Code famously began as a CLI tool).
At a high level, coding agents have a basic architecture: an LLM calls tools in a loop, while carrying forward the required context.
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