Agents
Your harness, your memory
Agent harnesses are becoming the dominant way to build agents, and they are not going anywhere. These harnesses are intimately tied to agent memory. If you used a closed harness - especially if it’s b
Agent harnesses are becoming the dominant way to build agents, and they are not going anywhere. These harnesses are intimately tied to agent memory. If you used a closed harness - especially if it’s behind a proprietary API - you are choosing to yield control of your agent&
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- your harness = your memory if you'd rather read in blog form, link here: https://blog.langchain.com/your-harness-your-memory/
Source: LangChain Blog | 2026-04-11