Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks
An agent, in its easiest type, is an LLM calling instruments in a loop. That loop works for brief jobs. Give it a job that runs for an hour and 200 software calls, and it breaks in 2 predictable methods. The AWS Samples design guide for autonomous cloud coding agents names them instantly: shallow brokers…
