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InfoQ · September 21, 2026 · On the brief until October 5, 2026

Presentation: The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents

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OpenAI engineer Vinoth Govindarajan presented architectural principles for preventing silent failures in production AI agents. Engineers must build harnesses that serialize state mutations, define explicit state ownership, and record execution receipts. These distributed systems controls change how developers verify agent actions across probabilistic boundaries.

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Engineers can discuss whether a silent success that drops durable context presents a greater hazard to operations than an outright crash.

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