
Day 1 | 120 Lines to Understand the Agent Loop: miniharness Teardown and 3 Counterintuitive Findings
Previous post: Day 0 | L3 Kickoff: A Short History of Harnesses, From Your Batch Script to Pi and DeepSeek Harness. Make sure you understand the Harness concept from Day 0 and the API calls from L2 Days 0-3, and let’s start dismantling the loop. This is an L3 exercise post. Upcoming navigation: Day Type Topic Day 2 Core Constraints and interception: hooks and permissions Day 3 Exercise Adding an approval gate with hooks Day 4 Core Extensions vs plugins: Pi vs DSH Day 5 Exercise Writing a Pi extension Day 6 Exercise Composing DSH Cordis plugin modes Day 7 Core Agent Teams and task DAGs Day 8 Core Memory and learning: Hermes, Nowledge Mem, EvoMap Day 9 Exercise Designing your own skill system Day 10 Wrap-up L3 graduation check Why This Is an Exercise Post The previous post traced the evolution of Harnesses. From Anthropic’s controlled experiment to the Pi and DeepSeek Harness routes, we learned one thing. Beyond the model, that guiding structure is what actually decides success. ...
