Claude for long-horizon tasks
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 1:55pm-2:15pm
- Track/room: Claws & Personal Agents · Track 1
- Speaker(s): Lance Martin
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
- Track: Claws & Personal Agents
- Room: Track 1
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
Claude is capable of long horizon tasks. In this talk, we'll share lessons learned about building agent harnesses for reliable and secure long-horizon work. This include decoupling the brain and hands, self-verification, self-learning, and design for evolving agent harnesses.
Media Evidence
Architecting and Testing Controllable Agents: Lance Martin (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
- Source video:
youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg - Slide deck: Dense Slides: Architecting and Testing Controllable Agents: Lance Martin — 4 visible slide image(s); 4 HTML recreation(s).
- Additional slide evidence: Slides: Architecting and Testing Controllable Agents: Lance Martin, Reconstructed Slides: Architecting and Testing Controllable Agents: Lance Martin
- Slide-derived themes for
youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg: retrieval, typically, tool, function, calling, execute, steps, guaranteed.

Evidence Graph
This evidence graph is generated from currently linked source material: official schedule text, related video pages, cached transcripts, visible slide text, dense/reconstructed slide pages, and AI slide-classification audits.
Media Signals
youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg— 2 slide-derived text signals- Slide-derived themes for
youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg: retrieval, typically, tool, function, calling, execute, steps, guaranteed. - Evidence links for
youtube-ib-wTAvCZqg: youtube ib wTAvCZqg, youtube ib wTAvCZqg slides, youtube ib wTAvCZqg dense slides, youtube ib wTAvCZqg reconstructed slides
Agent Reading Notes
Use these signals to refine the synopsis, topic links, people/company context, and method notes. If a source is a related external video rather than an exact official recording, keep it framed as supporting evidence.
Transcript Status
Related video transcript availability: English auto-captions. Treat this as supporting context, not a recording of this exact scheduled session unless later confirmed. Not fetched yet.
People
Supporting Slides
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg slides — extracted from the related public AI Engineer video.
Slide Evidence
- Slide-only cropped deck: youtube ib wTAvCZqg dense slides (4 viable slide images).
- Related slide/OCR pages:
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg dense slides
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg reconstructed slides
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg slides
- Slide-derived terms:
generation,bias,tokens,question,search,documents,llms,recent,awws,step,lististr,retrieval,recency,tasks,typically,used,attend,models
Synthesis
Synthesized Breakdown
Claude for long-horizon tasks ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 1:55pm-2:15pm - Track/room: Claws & Personal Agents · Track 1 - Speaker(s): Lance Martin - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Claws & Personal Agents - Room: Track 1 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Claude is capable of long horizon tasks. In this talk, we'll share lessons learned about building agent harnesses for reliable and secure long-horizon work. This include decoupling the brain and hands, self-verification, self-learning, and design for evolving agent harnesses. ## Media Evidence Architecting and Testing Controllable Agents: Lance Martin (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).
Speaker And Company Context
- Lance Martin — Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.
Topics Covered
Derived Links And Source Material
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg — related YouTube source page.
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg slides — slide evidence.
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg reconstructed slides — slide evidence.
- youtube ib wTAvCZqg dense slides — slide evidence.
Novel Concepts / Clever Methods
- No highlighted novel concept has been detected yet.
Evidence Boundary
This synthesis is based on the official schedule and linked source pages. It should be revisited when exact session recordings or transcript-backed secondary sources are available.