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The Empire, Long Divided, Must Unite: Architectural Convergence in Three LLM Agent Harnesses

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

An agent harness is what turns a language model into an autonomous agent: the surrounding code that builds the model's context, mediates its tools, runs the loop, and persists state across a long-horizon run. This layer, not the model it wraps, is increasingly the binding constraint on agent behaviour. We present a source-level, multi-case study of three open coding-agent harnesses built from deliberately opposing philosophies: LangChain's deepagents (batteries-included), Earendil's pi (radical minimalism), and DeepSeek's dsh (everything-is-a-plugin). Reading each at a pinned commit and follow

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