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# The Meta-Harness: Scaling Agentic Development Beyond the CLI


- **Event:** Conference India 2026

## Description

Agentic development feels magical to some and overhyped to others. Harnesses like Claude Code or Codex have been built around the local loop: a single developer changing code before opening a PR. 
Inside organizations, agents hit walls: repo boundaries, a lack of memory and unresolved issues around trust.
Fixing this requires a higher level of abstraction: the *meta-harness*. Just as meta-frameworks let React stay simple, a meta-harness keeps the agent CLI focused on its job while bringing the pieces teams need to ship. 
Big AI labs, open-source tools and startups are building tools and hoping to be the next platform that makes AI be a force-multiplier for teams. This talk is going to sample their approaches and make the case for the meta-harness as the next frontier for org-wide adoption.

## Speaker

### [Max Kless](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@max-kless)

Engineer at Nx & Polygraph


## Related talks at this congress

- [From Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering: Building Observable and Governed GenAI Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/1984-from-prompt) — Lakshmi Devi Prakash
- [Your New Teammates: Architecting a Multi-Agent Workforce](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/2005-your-new-teammates) — Henk Boelman
- [Beware of Strangers Bearing Code: Open Source Trust in the Agent Era](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/1978-beware-of-strangers) — Vikram Vaswani
- [Teaching AI Coding Agents to Build It Right the First Time](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/conference-india-2026/sessions/1995-teaching-ai-coding) — Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

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