Agent Harness vs LangChain: An Honest Comparison for 2026

LangChain’s own team published a blog post titled “Agent Frameworks, Runtimes, and Harnesses – oh my!” that explains the distinction. Frameworks provide abstractions for building agents. Runtimes provide infrastructure for running them. Harnesses provide opinionated defaults and built-in capabilities for deploying them reliably. LangChain is the first. An agent harness is the third. They are … Read more