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Auditable Agent Judgment: Jev's Decision Primitive at Harness
September 21, 2026
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Shubham Jindal is Director of AI at Harness, where he leads the company's AI strategy and the unified AI platform that powers products across the organization. An engineer at heart and a systems thinker by nature, he focuses on turning cutting-edge AI into reliable, governed, and scalable enterprise outcomes, bridging the gap between experimentation and adoption to help teams build AI.
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Auditable Agent Judgment: Jev's Decision Primitive at Harness

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Auditable Agent Judgment: Jev's Decision Primitive at Harness

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Engineering
Auditable Agent Judgment: Jev's Decision Primitive at Harness

How We Build
Engineering
How Harness isolates Autonomous Worker Agents with four independent security layers — image hardening, process isolation, secret isolation, and network controls, tested against a real CVSS-9.0 breach chain.

Engineering
How Harness scopes AI agent access with delegated identity, ephemeral tokens, RBAC, OPA policy, and MCP gateway tool intersection, enforced server-side.

Engineering
Why Context is the New Code for Scaling Production AI

Engineering
The Harness MCP v2 Server covers 125+ resource types across 30 toolsets with 11 tools and 26 prompt templates. It supports Cursor, Claude Code, and any MCP-compatible client.
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