Meta bought Manus for $2B to acquire an "agentic harness"—here's what "agentic harness" means and why it's worth $2B (yes really)
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Meta bought Manus for $2B to acquire an "agentic harness"—here's what "agentic harness" means and why it's worth $2B (yes really)
Meta paid $2B for a team that divulged their secrets in engineering posts. Why? Here's why, and what that acquisition tells us about where models and AI agents are going in 2026.
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Meta just paid over $2 billion for a company whose core product is, technically, a wrapper around someone else’s models.
Not a breakthrough in reasoning. Not a new architecture. A wrapper—and that’s exactly why the deal makes sense.
The single most misleading idea in AI right now is that “agents” are a model capability. They’re not. What people experience as an agent that finishes is almost always a
harness
—a pile of engineering wrapped around a model that turns probabilistic text generation into a system that can take actions, remember state, recover from errors, and keep going until the job is done. Manus became the poster child for reliable finishing, and that’s what Meta bought: not the model underneath, but the production know-how that makes a model behave like a worker over time.
Think of it this way: an AI agent is the engine. A harness is the car. You don’t get your V12 engine very far down the road without a car!
In 2026, “agentic harness” becomes one of the core concepts that executives and builders have to learn, because it explains things that otherwise seem baffling. Why can one team ship reliable agentic workflows while another team—using the exact same models—can’t get anything to production? Why would Meta pay billions for a company that doesn’t train its own frontier model? Why does “just use a better prompt” fail as advice for serious agent work? The answer to all three questions is the same, and this piece is my attempt to make that answer clear enough to use.
Here’s what’s inside:
What an agentic harness actually is
— a plain-language definition that holds up under scrutiny, plus the components that separate demo-ware from production systems
Why finishing is hard
— the math of multi-step reliability, and why even small per-step errors compound into total failure over the course of 50 tool calls
Why harness innovation is a moving target
— and why you’d pay a premium to acquire a team that has already gotten good at it
The specific techniques Manus published
— not just what they do, but why each technique works at the level of attention and inference
Why Meta bought the team, not the tech
— and what their “standalone plus integrate” framing signals about how they view the asset
The trust boundary problem
— why agents that actually finish require real permissions, and what that means for governance
Three alternatives with a decision framework
— not just features and policies, but a way of thinking about which harness fits which kind of work
The handmade car problem
— why harnesses won’t standardize the way SaaS did, and what that means for build-versus-buy decisions in 2026
The Finishing Framework
— a 20-task diagnostic bank with 7-axis scoring for evaluating harnesses, Anthropic’s composable patterns and LangGraph primitives for building them, and power-user patterns for Claude Code including CLAUDE.md configuration, permissions tuning, and team workflows via slash commands
What this means for your work
— different implications depending on whether you’re an executive, a builder, or an individual user trying to get things done
Bottom line: this is a deep dive into why finishing matters for AI agents in 2026, what it actually looks for a team to be focused on building an agentic model harness that finishes, plus a look at how to find (and build) agents that finish work for you this year.
Because 99% of the value is in getting the job done, not starting it. Let’s jump in!
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Not a breakthrough in reasoning. Not a new architecture. A wrapper\u2014and that\u2019s exactly why the deal makes sense.
The single most misleading idea in AI right now is that \u201Cagents\u201D are a model capability. They\u2019re not. What people experience as an agent that finishes is almost always a
harness \u2014a pile of engineering wrapped around a model that turns probabilistic text generation into a system that can take actions, remember state, recover from errors, and keep going until the job is done. Manus became the poster child for reliable finishing, and that\u2019s what Meta bought: not the model underneath, but the production know-how that makes a model behave like a worker over time.
Think of it this way: an AI agent is the engine. A harness is the car. You don\u2019t get your V12 engine very far down the road without a car!
In 2026, \u201Cagentic harness\u201D becomes one of the core concepts that executives and builders have to learn, because it explains things that otherwise seem baffling. Why can one team ship reliable agentic workflows while another team\u2014using the exact same models\u2014can\u2019t get anything to production? Why would Meta pay billions for a company that doesn\u2019t train its own frontier model? Why does \u201Cjust use a better prompt\u201D fail as advice for serious agent work? The answer to all three questions is the same, and this piece is my attempt to make that answer clear enough to use.
Here\u2019s what\u2019s inside:
What an agentic harness actually is
\u2014 a plain-language definition that holds up under scrutiny, plus the components that separate demo-ware from production systems
Why finishing is hard
\u2014 the math of multi-step reliability, and why even small per-step errors compound into total failure over the course of 50 tool calls
Why harness innovation is a moving target
\u2014 and why you\u2019d pay a premium to acquire a team that has already gotten good at it
The specific techniques Manus published
\u2014 not just what they do, but why each technique works at the level of attention and inference
Why Meta bought the team, not the tech
\u2014 and what their \u201Cstandalone plus integrate\u201D framing signals about how they view the asset
The trust boundary problem
\u2014 why agents that actually finish require real permissions, and what that means for governance
Three alternatives with a decision framework
\u2014 not just features and policies, but a way of thinking about which harness fits which kind of work
The handmade car problem
\u2014 why harnesses won\u2019t standardize the way SaaS did, and what that means for build-versus-buy decisions in 2026
The Finishing Framework
\u2014 a 20-task diagnostic bank with 7-axis scoring for evaluating harnesses, Anthropic\u2019s composable patterns and LangGraph primitives for building them, and power-user patterns for Claude Code including CLAUDE.md configuration, permissions tuning, and team workflows via slash commands
What this means for your work
\u2014 different implications depending on whether you\u2019re an executive, a builder, or an individual user trying to get things done
Bottom line: this is a deep dive into why finishing matters for AI agents in 2026, what it actually looks for a team to be focused on building an agentic model harness that finishes, plus a look at how to find (and build) agents that finish work for you this year.
Because 99% of the value is in getting the job done, not starting it. Let\u2019s jump in!
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