Team standup — topics

Two quick things

Mostly agent harnesses, then one quick note at the end.

MAIN

Agent harness tools — what they are, who's building them, and one interesting twist from DeepSeek. ~5 min.

QUICK NOTE

CKAD exam — what it is and how I'm prepping. ~1 min.

Part 1 — agent harnesses · 01

What's an "agent harness"?

Part 1 — agent harnesses · 02

The trajectory

DeepSeek Harness trajectory view — a row per think, act, and observe step

Part 1 — agent harnesses · 03

Model or harness?

Bundled together, sold together — but not the same thing.

MODEL Opus

HARNESS Claude Code

Antigravity IDE with Gemini Flash selected

MODEL Gemini Flash

HARNESS Antigravity

DeepSeek Harness running DeepSeek V4 Flash

MODEL DeepSeek V4

HARNESS DeepSeek Harness

MODEL GPT

HARNESS ChatGPT — browser only, fewer tools

Part 1 — agent harnesses · 04

Claude Code

CLI + Desktop app

Part 1 — agent harnesses · 05

Same idea, different labs

Codex

OpenAI

Antigravity

Google — GUI-heavy

Mistral

Mistral AI

Part 1 — agent harnesses · discussion

Over to you

Q1

Is anyone using one of these day-to-day? Which one, and for what kind of task?

Q2

Has anyone tried voice notes instead of typing? talking to the harness rather than typing your prompts

Q3

How could we actually get these tools into the office?

Part 2 — CKAD exam · 01

Also on my radar: CKAD

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer — CNCF's official developer cert for Kubernetes.

Part 2 — CKAD exam · 02

Hands-on, not multiple choice

Linux Foundation CKAD certification page

official CNCF content · linuxfoundation.org

Part 2 — CKAD exam · 03

How I'm prepping

working through this Udemy course