# Hugging Face — Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-05-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-glossary
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1499-harness-scaffold-and-the-ai-agent-terms-worth-getting-right

A glossary post clarifying the definitions of AI agent terms such as model, scaffolding, harness, and agent, distinguishing between concepts that are often confused.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-glossary:

> This glossary is our attempt to ground the terms that keep coming up without clear, consistent explanations.

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