# Building more than just an agent harness

DevFeed: [Building more than just an agent harness](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-more-than-just-an-agent-harness-2190.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/10/building-more-than-just-an-agent-harness/>)

Author: Phoebe Sajor

Published: 2026-07-10T07:40:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Stack Overflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stack-overflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agentic-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [autonomous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>), [podcast](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/podcast.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [se-stackoverflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/se-stackoverflow.md>), [se-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/se-tech.md>), [software-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-development.md>)

## AI overview

A conversation about building, deploying, operating, and evaluating enterprise AI agents at scale, with emphasis on ROI, reliability, and correctness.

## Source excerpt

Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft's VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, and run AI agents at scale with demonstrable ROI; how Microsoft built an end-to-end agent development system that goes past just the harness; and how you can evaluate for reliability and correctness in models that get more intelligent and autonomous everyday.