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Six Things an Agent Can't Give Itself
The model is brilliant — but it starts every session from a blank slate, can't enforce its own boundaries, can't grade its own work, and doesn't know what it shouldn't touch. Ada and Boris name the six things an agent structurally can't provide for itself — persistent memory, architectural constraints, verification mechanisms, tool access, curated context, and governance — and show exactly what the harness has to supply in each case. The episode lands on the formula that holds the whole framework together: Agent = Model + Harness. If you're not the model, you're the harness — and that reframe…
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