EngineeringMay 30, 202610 min read

Applications Maintained by Dynamic Harness-Driven Development

A general operating model for collecting runtime evidence, planning repairs, and keeping AI-assisted products stable

This application is maintained through dynamic harness-driven development. The method treats harness results as operational evidence, converts failures into bounded repair plans, and preserves learning without exposing internal implementation details.

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EngineeringMay 30, 202618 min read

Harness-Driven Development: Building Agentic Systems from Runtime Evidence Backward

A development method where scenarios, gates, scorecards, and repair boundaries are designed before implementation

Harness-driven development treats the dynamic harness as the primary specification. Instead of writing agent code first and testing it later, teams define runtime episodes, failure taxonomies, gates, and evidence contracts first, then let implementation converge toward measurable behavior.

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ArchitectureMay 30, 202619 min read

Governed Auto-Implementation: How a Dynamic Harness Turns Research Intent into Code

From design note to implementation plan, patch, replay, and approval-gated merge

Automatic implementation becomes useful only when the system can prove what changed, why it changed, which runtime episodes improved, and which authority boundaries were touched. This article defines the governed auto-implementation loop inside a dynamic harness.

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Safety & GovernanceMay 30, 202620 min read

Autonomous Repair Harness: Turning Runtime Failures into Safe, Reviewable System Improvements

Failure episodes, repair proposals, rollback envelopes, and approval boundaries for self-healing agentic systems

Automatic repair is the next step after automatic implementation. A dynamic harness can observe runtime failures, classify drift, draft repairs, replay evidence, and route patches through rollback and approval boundaries without allowing agents to rewrite their own constitution.

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ArchitectureMay 24, 202622 min read

Dynamic Harness and Phase-Space Control: From virtual-talent to MARIA OS

Reframing runtime episodes, failure taxonomies, dynamic scorecards, repair proposals, and controlled self-healing as phase control for agentic society

The central question for agentic systems is shifting from model intelligence to runtime phase control. This article defines the Dynamic Harness as a Runtime Governance Layer that observes, evaluates, and controls the phase space of an agent runtime, connecting MARIA OS research with implementation lessons from bonginkan/virtual-talent.

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