AI Glossary

Harness

The Collective's audit harness: its guard scripts and its audit dimensions (each one a kind of failure that has really happened). Agents may add dimensions that only report, but turning one into a gate that can block work takes a human signature.

Used on Process.

See also

  • Agent harness

    The software around a model that turns it into an agent: it runs the model step after step and hands it its tools and context.

  • Audit dimension

    One whole kind of failure the Collective's harness checks for on its own, such as a leaked secret, a broken link or a page AI answer engines cannot quote, each added because that failure really happened.

  • Failure Corpus

    A public record, in JSON and CSV under CC BY 4.0, of reviewed failures from code operated by AI agents, each classified by cause.

  • Test harness

    The stubs, drivers and test data set up to run software tests automatically: a test harness calls the code under test with chosen inputs and compares each result with the expected one.

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This term

Orbyt Labs, Harness (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/harness

The dataset (JSON)

Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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