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Stronger models do not always need lighter harnesses. Everyone believes more structured harnesses universally improve reliability, and that higher-capability models need proportionally less structural guidance. Together, that implies a clean inverse relationship between model tier and optimal harness complexity. This new research tests it with a controlled 432-run experiment, six models across four capability tiers crossed with three harness conditions, on a 24-task benchmark with git-based workspace verification. For a frontier chat model, increasing harness verbosity dropped success by 29 to 38 percentage points. They call it the harness-complexity paradox. Paper: https://t.co/3D1FUdQ3Y8 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://t.co/LRnpZN7L4c