What an agent harness is, and what OpenClaw does A language model on its own can only produce text. It cannot open a file, run a command, call an API, or remember what it did five minutes ago. An agent harness is the layer that closes that gap.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/qvac/how-to-easily-run-a-fully-local-private-ai-assistant-with-openclaw-and-qvac-2bmp)