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Harness engineering for coding agent users

Martin Fowler · 11 min read

A post on martinfowler.com is cited by 59 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 10 October 2026).

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59blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time5970
Last 90 days2424
Last 30 days1010
Last 7 days22
Figures for this page
First cited31 Jan 2026
Latest citation6 Oct 2026
Anchor phrases5
Called by its title7 of 59 blogs
External links7
Words captured2,312
New citing blogs a weeksince Jan 2026
New citing blogs a week, since Jan 2026: 37 weeks, peak 5 a week, latest week 2

2 this week (still settling) · peak 5

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New citing blogs a week, week by week
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2 Feb 20260
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7 Sept 20262
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21 Sept 20261
28 Sept 20263 (still settling)
5 Oct 20262 (still settling)

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 59 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 37, design and making 2, unclassified 20.

How it is described

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • harness engineering19 blogs
  • harness engineering for coding agent users7 blogs
  • harness engineering for coding agent users (martin fowler / thoughtworks)1 blog
  • "harness engineering for coding agent users"1 blog
  • agent = model + harness1 blog

Cited by 59 blogs in 70 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
5 Oct 2026
Do you really need another framework?

linked as “Birgitta Böckeler’s harness engineering”

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30 Sept 2026
The State Of AI Harness Engineering 2026

linked as “Harness engineering for coding agent users — Birgitta Böckeler”

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24 Sept 2026
tej.as1 post
14 Sept 2026
Four Layers of Agent Engineering

linked as “Martin Fowler, "Harness Engineering for Coding Agent Users"”

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29 Jul 2026
What's Inside the Harness

linked as “Birgitta Böckeler’s “outer harness””

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24 Jul 2026
Turing's parrot — Anthology: A Treatise on SDD vs BMAD

linked as “Harness engineering for coding agent users (Martin Fowler / Thoughtworks)”

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24 Jul 2026
1 other post
Turing's parrot Part 5 - Harness Engineering — Building Reins for the Parrot

linked as “Harness engineering for coding agent users (Martin Fowler / Thoughtworks)”

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18 Jun 2026

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