Viv Trivedy

Viv Trivedy is credited by Addy Osmani’s Agent Harness Engineering article with coining the term harness engineering and publishing an anatomy of the scaffolding around an agent.

Contribution

The framing separates the model from the surrounding execution system: prompts, tools, context policies, sandboxes, orchestration, feedback loops, persistence, and recovery paths. This directs engineering attention toward the runtime conditions that make model behavior reliable.

Osmani summarizes Trivedy’s formulation as Agent = Model + Harness. The attribution here is intentionally grounded in Osmani’s article because the original social post was not captured in the ingestion archive.

Related Concepts

• agent harness engineering
• context engineering
• multi agent orchestration

Primary Source

• Addy Osmani: Agent Harness Engineering