Harness before prompt
Tools, context, permissions, memory, and stop conditions form the system. The model is one component inside it.
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AgentOrch.ai explores difficult AI systems problems by making agents the primary builders. More than 90% of each research build is executed inside agent harnesses, from discovery and implementation to evals and iteration.
Agent-native, not agent-assisted.
We design the harness before we optimize the prompt. We build loops before we add handoffs. We instrument evals before we trust output. The result is a research practice where agents do the bulk of the work and humans hold the thesis, boundaries, and taste.
Tools, context, permissions, memory, and stop conditions form the system. The model is one component inside it.
Useful autonomy comes from observable cycles of action, critique, repair, and evidence, not a longer one-shot instruction.
Every meaningful claim needs a trace, a metric, or a reproducible test. Vibes are a signal, never the benchmark.
Research you can run.
Our projects turn research questions into usable systems. Every release is a working artifact, an evaluation surface, and an input to the next loop.
Model the cost and operating profile of retrieval-augmented generation systems. Compare architecture choices before infrastructure decisions become expensive.
New experiments and utilities will appear here as they graduate from the harness.
STATUS / FORMINGOur research surface is organized around the infrastructure required for capable, economical, and verifiable agent systems.
Agent systems that can frame a question, assemble context, run experiments, and preserve a legible chain of evidence.
Retrieval and reasoning loops that measure their own misses, repair weak context, and compound what they learn.
Instrumentation for the real economics of autonomous work: quality, latency, token spend, retries, and human escalation.
Critic, judge, and challenger patterns that make long-running agent loops more observable, defensible, and safe.
Each run leaves the next run stronger. Findings become fixtures. Failures become evals. Useful traces become reusable context. The harness gets better while the research moves forward.
Thesis, constraints, judgment, taste.
Research, code, tests, analysis, documentation.
Projects produce traces, ideas, and methods worth sharing. The journal captures the build; papers preserve the research.
Field notes from inside the harness: architecture decisions, failed loops, cost discoveries, evaluation patterns, and opinions earned through building.
Methods, benchmarks, and findings made reproducible. Papers will connect the thesis to evaluation design, experimental evidence, and reusable artifacts.
Built by researchers who build.
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