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<description>Short, practical notes on coding agents, harnesses and MCP: what changed over the last two years and what you can use today.</description><language>en-US</language><item><title>Running Codex and Claude as a two-agent team: what broke, and the rules that fixed it</title><link>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/two-agent-team/</link><guid>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/two-agent-team/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>One agent specifies and reviews, the other builds and integrates. Eight failures from real delivery work, and the rule each one left behind.</description></item><item><title>Long-running agents need a progress file, not a bigger context window</title><link>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/long-running-agents-progress-file/</link><guid>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/long-running-agents-progress-file/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The day-long agent runs that worked kept their state in files and git; here is a progress file, a feature list and the rules that go with them.</description></item><item><title>The harness is the product</title><link>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/harness-is-the-product/</link><guid>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/harness-is-the-product/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Anthropic traced a 2026 drop in Claude Code quality to three harness changes, not the model; here is how to version, pin and test harness config like code.</description></item><item><title>Coding agents, October 2024 to October 2026: the 20 events that mattered</title><link>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/coding-agents-2024-2026/</link><guid>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/coding-agents-2024-2026/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Twenty dated events from two years of coding agents, grouped into protocols, harness, permissions and measurement, each linked to its primary source.</description></item><item><title>ABAP has an official MCP server now. What to expose, and what to keep read-only</title><link>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/abap-mcp-server/</link><guid>https://mertsahin.ai/notes/abap-mcp-server/</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SAP&#x27;s ADT MCP server gives any coding agent create, activate, ATC and transport tools. Here is how I would tier them before letting an agent near a shared system.</description></item></channel></rss>
