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Every Harness Will Become A Claw

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Most of the Harness discussion is just a reprise of Context Engineering from last summer. But it's not 2025 anymore. We live in a Claude Code world, and the best way to think about a harness is Context engineering + Coding Agents = Harness. Harnesses are a magical DX because of specific features like planning mode, parallel subagents, skills, background tasks etc. But it doesn't stop there. People are shoving their harnesses in a box, making them listen to external events, giving them channels (the ability to ping its users), and a heartbeat. They are making them into Claws. And actually, harnesses _want_ to become claws, so they can take up more share of mind, suit collaboration workflows, and be available afk. I propose "Steinberger's law", a spinoff of Zawinski's law: every harness will expand until it becomes a Claw

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Agents vs Workflows: Why Not Both? — Sam Bhagwat, Mastra.ai (speaker-match related prior/adjacent AI Engineer video; captions: English auto-captions).

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Every Harness Will Become A Claw ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 3:20pm-3:40pm - Track/room: Claws & Personal Agents · Track 1 - Speaker(s): Sam Bhagwat - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: Claws & Personal Agents - Room: Track 1 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description Most of the Harness discussion is just a reprise of Context Engineering from last summer. But it's not 2025 anymore. We live in a Claude Code world, and the best way to think about a harness is Context engineering + Coding Agents = Harness. Harnesses are a magical DX because of specific features like planning mode, parallel subagents, skills, background tasks etc.

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