AI Agent Harness Solutions: 4 Ways to Tame Claude Code and Stop Context Decay

Stop Letting Your AI Agent Run Naked: 4 Harness Solutions to Tame Claude Code (and Your Sanity) Core question this article answers: Why do powerful AI coding tools go off the rails the longer they run—and what can you do about it? Have you ever had this happen? You ask Claude Code to refactor a module. It writes 5 files, then tests fail. It starts debugging frantically, stuffing temporary patches, error logs, and abandoned solutions into the codebase. By the time it reaches the 10th file, it can’t tell the difference between the current task and the historical noise—it starts …