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The real work in a data agent is the harness around it

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TL;DR. An AI agent is a model plus a harness: everything around the model that lets it act, such as its instructions, tools, permissions, memory, checks and approval steps. The agent tool you use ships with a general harness. For data work, you add five parts of your own: a rule file it must follow…

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  1. 2026-10-20 20:04 · DEV Community — AI
    The real work in a data agent is the harness around it

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