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I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.

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Strands Harness: Frontier Performance with 28% Lower Token Cost

A running theme in Matt Wood’s FYI — 4 items spanning 2026-09-13 – 2026-09-21. This page compounds: new items on this theme are added as they’re posted. Tracked since 2026-09-21.

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Strands Harness: Frontier Performance with 28% Lower Token CostBuild a Custom Agent HarnessStrands Harness is a concrete implementation that builds on the general concept of building custom agent harnesses, offering a specific performance-cost benchmark

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Strands Harness: Frontier Performance with 28% Lower Token Cost

Strands introduces their state-of-the-art agent harness that delivers frontier-level performance while reducing token costs by 28%.

permalink · strandsagents.com →

SoL-Pi: Recursively Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent Harness

Presents SoL-Pi, a method for improving coding agents through recursive self-improvement loops that reduces token usage by 44.7-49.0% and API costs by about one third while maintaining performance on code generation tasks.

permalink · arxiv.org →

Build a Custom Agent Harness

Guide on creating a custom agent harness for building and deploying intelligent agents with LangChain, covering frameworks and infrastructure options.

permalink · www.langchain.com →
Kiro Crew 0.6.0 Release: Remote Crews & Agent Harnesses

Kiro Crew 0.6.0 introduces selectable agent harnesses, remote crew capabilities, and an Apps Launchpad, while requiring Python 3.12 and improving chat interface organization for long-running tasks.

permalink · kiro.dev →