InfoQ - Distributed Systems - Presentations https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Distributed Systems Presentations feed Presentation: The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agent-harness/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Distributed+Systems-presentations <img src="https://res.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agent-harness/en/mediumimage/vino-medium-1789631870270.jpeg"/><p>OpenAI’s Vinoth Govindarajan discusses why production AI agents fail beyond model hallucination. Using real-world case studies like OpenClaw, he explains the key principles of reliable agent harnesses: establishing explicit state ownership, serializing concurrent state mutations, scoping execution authority, and validating actions at the user-visible edge.</p> <i>By Vinoth Govindarajan</i> Large language models Agents Transcripts QCon AI Boston 2026 OpenAI Architecture Distributed Systems AI Harness AI, ML & Data Engineering Development Architecture & Design presentation Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-agent-harness/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Distributed+Systems-presentations Vinoth Govindarajan 2026-09-21T11:00:00Z /presentations/ai-agent-harness/en