Agent = Model + Harness
A living map of agentic AI.
How agents are built, run, governed, secured and paid for. Open any side and go as deep as you need, from a first picture down to the evidence.
The Harness
Anatomy of a production agent. The flagship face of the cube.
Architecture
How agents reason, coordinate and connect.
Reliability and Security
How agents fail, and how they are made to fail on purpose.
Governance
Who decides what agents may do, and who owns the outcome.
Economics
What agentic AI costs and how value is measured.
Organization
What it takes for an organization to absorb autonomous actors.
The path forward
Ten recommendations and three imperatives.The cube, unfolded. Every recommendation is a door back into the map.
Grown from the white paper The Effective Agent.