Components of a Coding Agent
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Summary
Coding agents like Claude Code employ an agent harness—a scaffold managing six components including tool use, memory, and repo context—to augment LLMs for software engineering. This harness functions as a control loop that leverages reasoning models (LLMs optimized for self-verification) and ensures prompt-cache stability for extended sessions. The architecture decouples model inference from orchestration, yielding practical performance improvements.