Side N
The Harness Ships, the Governance Doesn’t
Which sources back which section of this article, and what its evidence base looks like.
Which sources back which section
| Section | Sources behind it |
|---|---|
| What Happened | Salapa’s paper (arXiv:2608.20622); the arXiv API’s own bibliographic record; the PyPI JSON record for micro-cc; the micro-cc source distribution (version 0.2.72); Dhage, on deterministic execution constraints |
| Timeline | Anthropic’s harness-design post; Bechard, Marquez Ayala, Chen, Skelton, Davasam, Sunkara, Yadav & Rajeswar; the PyPI JSON record for micro-cc; Ivanov, Rana & Prabhakaran; Liu, Zhao, Shang & Shen; Zhang, Wang, Ge, Xu, Hamm & Reddy; Pan & Hou; Ishibashi, Yano & Oyamada; Ning et al. (42 authors); Chen et al. (HarnessX); Gore (SHarD); Salapa’s paper; Dhage |
| The Argument | Salapa’s paper, quoted directly; Bechard, Marquez Ayala, Chen, Skelton, Davasam, Sunkara, Yadav & Rajeswar; Ivanov, Rana & Prabhakaran; Pan & Hou; Ning et al. (42 authors); Zhang, Wang, Ge, Xu, Hamm & Reddy; the PyPI JSON record for micro-cc; the micro-cc source distribution, including its LICENSE file and claude_loop_.py |
| What Others Add | Gore (SHarD); Dhage; Chen et al. (HarnessX); Anthropic, How we built our multi-agent research system; Anthropic, Harness design for long-running application development |
| Conclusion | Salapa’s paper; the arXiv API’s own bibliographic record; the PyPI JSON record for micro-cc; the micro-cc source distribution |
What the evidence base looks like
- 16Sources behind this article
- 5Sections, every one of them sourced
- 6Read in full
- 1Approached and set aside, cited nowhere
| What the source is | How many | How they were read |
|---|---|---|
| The paper under review | 1 | Read in full, as the supplied 21-page PDF, and checked against the arXiv API’s own record |
| Bibliographic and package registries | 2 | Both read in full via their own JSON APIs — arXiv’s for the citation check, PyPI’s for the release history |
| The reference implementation’s own source code | 1 | Downloaded and searched in full: 231 files, with the licence and the approval-gate code quoted directly |
| The vendor whose primitives the paper applies | 2 | Both of Anthropic’s engineering posts read in full, fetched via curl |
| Comparison literature in the same field | 10 | Abstract read via the arXiv API; full text not read for any of them |
Reliable
Reliable, but with an interestWorth believing and reliableWeak on both, and used with careHonest, but thin
Worth believing