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Applied AI and ML

Connect the harness to the work

Teams can get a lot done by connecting an agent harness to their data sources and giving it a well-designed skills library. Those connections and instructions have to be reliable enough to use.

When a needed system has an API but no existing connector, a small custom tool is often enough. The building blocks already exist. The work is choosing the right abstractions, writing clear tool definitions, handling authentication, and testing the whole path.