[adamtaylor_13]

I thought the entire industry is moving toward harness engineering? I read this twice and didn't fully understand what it was telling me.

[rajit]

Thanks for the feedback. The main idea is that today to built a best-in-class agent, developers build the agent loop, session management, tools, memory, skills, automations (cron + trigger-based), sandboxed deployment, and self-learning.

By providing Hermes with a system prompt, custom tools, and skills, developers get the agent loop, session management, automations, sandboxed deployment, and self-learning for free.

[usernametaken29]

But effectively they’re deferring harness engineering onto another developer?? I don’t understand how this is different than any other library, ever

[rajit]

Yes by using us developers are deferring the harness engineering onto us, and they can spend time writing code for their business logic.

We are closer to infrastructure than a library or framework; we give developers a live agent they can chat with in a single API call.