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HarnessAgent is being actively iterated by the AI SDK team—announcement posted by…

Brief

HarnessAgent is an iterated agent framework from AI SDK (announced 2026-07-28) that emphasizes write-once, run-anywhere usage: developers can create an agent once and deploy it across different harnesses. The recent update adds stopWhen for per-step control, allowing conditional termination of individual steps during execution.

Why it matters

HarnessAgent is being actively iterated by the AI SDK team—announcement posted by @aisdk and shared by @cramforce on 2026-07-28.

Key details

  • HarnessAgent now supports a new stopWhen feature for per-step control, enabling agents written once to run on any harness with conditional step termination.
Source evidence

We keep iterating on 𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜𝙰𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝. Write your agent once, run it on any harness.

AI SDK (@aisdk)

𝙷𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜𝙰𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚝 now supports 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 for per-step control

— https://nitter.net/aisdk/status/2082134111725183324#m