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Harness Engineering: Wire the Tools First, Then Say Four Words

Automation / WorkflowsIntermediateAdvanced@dobotai_saved JUL 05

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Yes. The insight is real and often missed: the quality of an agent's output is mostly determined by the harness around it, meaning stored process definitions, a written style reference, and tools connected in advance, rather than by how the request was phrased. Two conditions worth attaching: give each pre-wired connector the narrowest permissions that let it work, since a standing connection is standing access, and keep a review step before anything the agent produces is published. This is a general practice.

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I keep making the same kind of output by hand. Help me turn it into a reusable directive. First interview me about the process until you can write it down completely: the steps in order, the decision points, the style rules for any writing, and the tools or files each step needs. Then write it as a single directive file, with a separate style reference file, so a future request only has to name the output and the parameters. Include an explicit review checkpoint before anything is finalized, and list what tool access the process requires so I can approve each one separately.

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