YOUR AGENT NEEDS A HARNESS, NOT A FRAMEWORK

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A harness is a layer that connects, protects, and orchestrates components without doing the work itself. Every agent framework is trying to build its own harness from scratch, but durable, event-driven infrastructure already solves this. Utah (Universally Triggered Agent Harness) is a conversational Telegram or Slack agent with tools, memory, sub-agent delegation, and full durability - a durable, cloud-ready OpenClaw. It was created to prove that durable, event-driven infrastructure can be used to create an agent harness that decouples orchestration from the agentic loop.