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The Harness Playbook — Stencil

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Model the agentic harness like a game engine and most of its hard problems — durable state, tools, configuration, the TUI, inference — collapse into ones other people already solved.

Before anything else: a thank you. Hundreds of thousands of you have used omp, reported what broke, suggested what was missing, and shaped what it became. This post and omp² itself exist because of you. Upon hearing about omp², many of you jumped to ask, "but why?" A while loop around a fetch sounds simple, but there's a reason OpenCode, Pi, OpenClaw and omp are all concurrently working on a complete refactor: this class of software did not exist before, and only by starting with the simple version, we could see the cracks to work towards a better one. Unavoidable complexity needs an…

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