Harness Engineering for Web Developers

Your AI agent is only as good as the environment you build around it.

Prompt engineering got us started. Context engineering leveled us up. But as AI agents become autonomous - writing code, running tests, and deploying changes - a new discipline has emerged: Harness Engineering.

Harness Engineering for Web Developers is a practical guide that walks you through the three-stage evolution of working with AI, from crafting single prompts to designing full autonomous agent environments.

What you will learn:

• Prompt engineering fundamentals - role prompting, chain of thought, few-shot patterns
• Context engineering - context windows, RAG, tool use, MCP, and memory systems
• Harness engineering - architecture constraints, garbage collection, and reliability math
• CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md - writing effective agent document maps
• The Generator/Evaluator pattern - separating work and verification for reliable output
• Building a harness step by step - linters, pre-commit hooks, ArchUnit, CI/CD gates
• Production harness operations - monitoring, cost management, and self-improving systems