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discussionr/AI_Agents · Oct 10, 2026

Did you guys build your own agent harness?

A Mac user shares a three-month build of a local-first, multi-provider agent harness centered on file outputs, and asks whether others built their own. The discussion weighs the appeal of local-first setups, data stays home with no meter running, against the real cost: the unglamorous ops of auth, retries, and noticing silent failures.

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