thehardwarestore.ai

This repository is a comprehensive tutorial on building AI agent harnesses, structured as 17 progressive lessons. Each lesson introduces a single mechanism (tool use, permissions, hooks, planning, subagents, skill loading, context compaction, memory, task system, background tasks, cron scheduler, agent teams, MCP integration, workflow runtime, and goal loop) that extends a core agent loop without modifying it. The harness enables a language model (Claude) to perceive, reason, and act through tool interactions while managing context, permissions, and collaboration. The repository includes runnable Python implementations for each lesson and an interactive Next.js web application with visualizations for learning and experimentation.