# Temporal Agent Harness: An early look at durable agent infrastructure

DevFeed: [Temporal Agent Harness: An early look at durable agent infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/temporal-agent-harness-an-early-look-at-durable-agent-infrastructure-36004.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-agent-harness-durable-agent-infrastructure>)

Author: Cornelia Davis

Published: 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [Agent Harness](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-harness.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reliability.md>), [interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/interfaces.md>)

Tags: [agent-harness](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-harness.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [execution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/execution.md>), [interfaces](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interfaces.md>), [production](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/production.md>), [tool](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tool.md>)

## AI overview

Temporal presents an early look at Agent Harness, an infrastructure layer for production AI agents. It is designed to add durable execution, tool-call approvals, typed interfaces, enforceable policies, reliable execution, and a durable history of agent activity while allowing teams to keep using existing agent harnesses and tools.

## Source excerpt

Temporal's new Agent Harness brings durable execution, tool-call approvals, and typed interfaces to production AI agents. An early look.