October 2026 · Published Oct 29, 2026 · 1265 entries
State of Harness — October 2026
The first State of Harness report defines the agent harness and reads the market around it: who uses harnesses and for what, open versus lab-owned harnesses, the move to orchestration, the pain points that decide budgets, what developers say on Hacker News, Reddit, X and Substack, and the startups building the next layer.