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Karun Japhet

A Green Harness Is Not a Healthy Harness

Instrumenting your coding agent’s harness against silent failure more
  • 6 comments
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  • 13 Aug 2026
Type of submission: 30 mins talk
Prudhvi Krovvidi

Prudhvi Krovvidi

Good Enough for What?

Session description I keep getting asked some version of the same question - is this smaller, cheaper model good enough to replace the hosted one - and I’ve had to answer it three times this year, and got it wrong on the first pass every time, not because the model was bad but because I was reading the wrong number. Tesseract, a free local OCR engine, looked almost as good as hosted frontier OCR … more
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  • 18 Aug 2026
Type of submission: 30 mins talk

Karan Bansal

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Hardening AI Coding Agents with Hooks: Enforcing Least Privilege on Autonomous Developers

Abstract Teams are putting AI coding agents into production workflows faster than they are putting controls around them. An agent that writes code also runs shell commands, reads secrets, installs packages, and pushes to git, at machine speed. This talk is about the control layer that has held up in production: event-driven hooks that intercept every tool call and allow, deny, or escalate it befo… more
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  • 20 Aug 2026
Type of submission: 30 mins talk

Ravi Kiran Vemila

Harness or ceremony: what held when agents ran unattended in production

Description Every client project at KnackLabs wanted the same thing: an agent that works like a coworker. It knows who it is talking to, whether the message comes from Slack, Teams, or inside the product. It remembers past conversations with that person. It has the access an employee would have, and only that. So it became Gantry: a self-hosted agent runtime that teams embed through an SDK, call … more
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  • Submitted
  • 21 Aug 2026
Type of submission: 30 mins talk

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