# Harvey — 3 Principles That Helped us Scale Agent Development

- Company: Harvey (harvey.ai)
- Announced: 2025-11-03T17:00:00+00:00
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- Source: https://www.harvey.ai/blog/principles-that-helped-us-scale-agent-development
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17657-3-principles-that-helped-us-scale-agent-development
- Subject: Harvey

Harvey engineers describe three principles—no custom orchestration, capabilities as Tool Bundles, and eval gates on capabilities—that allowed them to scale in-thread feature development from one team to four after shifting to an agent framework.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.harvey.ai/blog/principles-that-helped-us-scale-agent-development:

> Adopting a single agent framework scaled our in‑thread feature development from one team to four, led to emergent feature combinations, and enabled centralized eval.

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