# Harness Engineering

> Engineer the execution around your agent so work can keep moving.

Source: https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/harness-engineering/

Harness Engineering

## Your agent gets stuck. Or starts all over again.

Engineer the execution around your agent so work can keep moving.

[Discuss this offering: Harness Engineering](https://sidekickmachines.com/contact/?offering=Harness%20Engineering)

How it fits together

1. Work in progress
2. Wait or interruption
3. Controlled continuation

### What changes.

We integrate and extend the selected agent harness for your workflow: state, tool execution, recovery, limits and continuation after a wait.

### Yours to put to work.

- Scope and acceptance criteria agreed together.

#### A configured execution path

The selected SDK or service integrated with your agent’s tools and lifecycle.

#### Recovery and continuation

Checkpoints, retries, event-driven wake-up and handling for interrupted work.

#### Operating limits

Execution budgets, cancellation and escalation behavior with run tests.

### See an example engagement

An example scope, adapted to your environment.

1. The starting point: An agent must wait hours for an external system to change state.
2. The work: Persist the task, accept the completion event and resume the workflow.
3. The handoff: A tested continuation path with retry, timeout and cancellation behavior.

#### How we evaluate the result

- Interrupted work resumes with the required context.
- Retries and duplicate events do not repeat protected side effects.
- Runs respect their agreed limits and escalate unrecoverable failures.

Related capabilities

### When you need more.

[All capabilities](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/)

#### [Enterprise Agent Sandbox](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/enterprise-agent-sandbox/)

Provide a controlled environment for agent code and tool execution.

#### [Agent Memory](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-memory/)

Build self-learning agents that apply expert feedback to future work.

#### [Agent Observability](https://sidekickmachines.com/capabilities/agent-observability/)

See the runs, tool calls, waits and costs behind agent behavior.

A useful place to start

### Let’s work through your specific problem.

Start with Harness Engineering, scoped to your environment.

[Discuss this offering](https://sidekickmachines.com/contact/?offering=Harness%20Engineering)