# Introducing Autonomous Worker Agents

DevFeed: [Introducing Autonomous Worker Agents](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-autonomous-worker-agents-13443.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.harness.io/blog/introducing-autonomous-worker-agents>)

Author: Jyoti Bansal Rohan Gupta

Published: 2026-06-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Harness Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/harness-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai-agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agent.md>), [governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/governance.md>), [graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graph.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [vpc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vpc.md>)

## AI overview

Harness introduces Autonomous Worker Agents for software delivery. The agents run as pipeline steps or independently, use organizational context from the Harness Knowledge Graph and Harness MCP, and produce auditable outputs under controls such as scoped credentials, OPA policies, approval gates, and audit trails.

## Source excerpt

Harness launches Autonomous Worker Agents: AI that runs as pipeline steps, with the governance enterprises need to trust agents in production | Blog