Tag: harness
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What is Agentic AI Hook? Control an Agent Cannot Talk Its Way Past

Definition: An agentic AI hook is deterministic code that runs at a fixed point in an AI agent’s loop and returns one of three answers: allow the action, block it, or stop and ask a named human. It is the one control in the agentic SDLC that decides an outcome instead of influencing one. Everything…
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What Is Agentic AI Architecture? The Six Layers That Actually Decide Outcomes

Agentic AI architecture is the design of the system around the model: the layers that decide what an agent is asked to do, what it may reach, what it is forbidden to do, how far it may act without a person, and how any of that is proved afterwards. The model is a component in…
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What Is an AI-Native SDLC? Intent Becomes the Unit of Work

An AI-native SDLC is a software development lifecycle in which the unit of work is committed intent rather than an assigned instruction, and each stage ends by writing a version-controlled artifact that the next stage reads. Anthropic published the clearest description of one on August 21, 2026 in The AI-Native SDLC playbook, and has since…
