Harness (harness.io)
Software-delivery-lifecycle company: CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and the policy/approval machinery around them. Its agent play is to treat an agent as one more thing that ships through that machinery — Autonomous Worker Agents (June 2026, agents as governed steps inside a delivery pipeline) and then AI Agent DLC (July 2026, the same governance across the whole agent lifecycle: evals, deployment, config, catalog, tracing) harness-agent-dlc. trevor-stuart is SVP/GM and the public voice on both.
Homonym warning. This company is not the agentic coding harness this wiki writes about constantly — the shared word is a coincidence. Slug is
harness-iofor that reason; keep the company at[[harness-io]]and the concept at[[agentic-coding-harness]].
Publishes a State of Engineering Excellence report (2026 edition cited for the 31%-of-a-developer’s-day and 94%-of-leaders measurement-gap figures). First-party research; treat accordingly.