I recently saw OpenClaw referred to as a harness. I thought, “That’s interesting. OpenClaw isn’t a harness. It’s an agent runtime—it drives the agent loop.” So, what does the word "harness" even mean?The conversation so farThe structural baseline for the concept comes from Birgitta Böckeler's April 2026 article, which elegantly defines an agent as model + harness = agent. She bifurcated the stack into a builder harness (the inner runtime shipped with the tool) and a user harness (the developer's custom context). This definition built on a wave of discussion from February 2026, whi
One of the core principles of Red Hat’s open source culture is open exchange, which is the belief that information should be freely available and accessible to anyone. I recently represented Red Hat at Axe-con 2026, the free accessibility conference organized by Deque Systems. There, I shared one of the methods we use to ensure an inclusive experience on our public websites: Keyboard accessibility testing.My Axe-con presentation outlined the topic and invited viewers to join me in a live demonstration of some keyboard testing practices. After the demo, I performed a quick top-to-bottom test