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A Developer's Honest Check: Is My Web Search Agent a Real Harness?

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer built a Perplexity-style search assistant with Bun, React 19, Tavily, and OpenRouter. They then critically evaluated whether their code deserved the 'agent harness' label. They concluded it is a real but small single-tool harness, not the multi-tool system they initially claimed.

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This piece is a refreshing antidote to AI hype, showing the difference between a script and a genuine agent loop, even if it's a modest one.
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