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The layer most teams inherit by accident.
An agent is a model plus a harness, and independent research keeps finding that the harness moves outcomes as much as a model upgrade. Stoa Labs engineers the layer most teams inherit by accident: harness selection measured on your own tasks, the control plane that enforces what agents may do, and the durable-execution patterns that let long-running work survive crashes, deploys, and waiting humans.
We are vendor-neutral across harnesses and engines; the deliverable is scaffolding your team owns and understands.
01 · 1-2 weeks
The entry point
Harness & Reliability Assessment
A fixed-scope diagnostic. We measure harness sensitivity on your own tasks, assess model-harness fit, and map the reliability gaps in long-running work: checkpointing, resumability, idempotency of side effects, compensation, and recovery paths.
02 · Scoped by the assessment
Engineering Engagement
Implementation of the assessment's priorities: control-plane engineering with typed contracts, permission checks, and policy gates; harness migration or tuning; durable-execution integration; idempotent side-effect and compensation patterns; and tested recovery paths.
Scope, timeline, and price are fixed in the proposal from the assessment's findings.
The research behind it
This family is anchored by two research areas: harness engineering, and orchestration and durable execution.
Start with the assessment.
Tell us about the agents, the scaffolding they run on, and what happens today when something is interrupted.