Harness Engineering: The New Core Skill for Agentic Developers

Official Schedule Context

• Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 2:50pm-3:10pm
• Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 1 NE
• Speaker(s): Dru Knox
• Session type/status: session · confirmed

Official Description

Harness engineering is emerging as a new core competency for agentic engineers. Your job isn't

writing good code, it's upgrading your codebase so that agents reliably succeed. This talk covers

the core loop of harness engineering, the most common codebase modifications you'll make, and how to

10x your harness engineering efforts with Tessl's harness engineering agent.

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