--- title: "AI harnesses are the new secret to agentic system success" url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-harnesses-are-the-new-secret-to-agentic-system-success-l1jug6uj6 source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KvmfrabCGA type: video:youtube source: "Temporal" published: 2026-06-30T00:44:03.669Z updated: 2026-06-30T00:44:23.560Z tags: ["llm", "ai-agents"] reading_time: 1 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI harnesses are the new secret to agentic system success **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In agentic AI systems, the 'harness' — the scaffolding that gives models tools, skills, and access to enterprise data — is increasingly more important than the underlying model itself. As model capabilities converge (all reasoning, all multimodal, all strong), the harness becomes the differentiating factor. A poor harness will undermine even the best model, while a good harness can extract meaningful results from a weaker model. Models are swappable; harnesses are not. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-harnesses-are-the-new-secret-to-agentic-system-success-l1jug6uj6)