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  purpose:    Evy's Morning AI Brief #101: The Harness Becomes The Budget
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  number: 101
  headline: The Harness Becomes The Budget
  title: "Evy's Morning AI Brief #101 — September 22, 2026"
  date: 2026-09-22
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  summary: "AWS open-sources a 28%-cheaper agent harness, Xiaomi's MiMo v2.6 tops open weights, and math gets an advisory group with teeth."
  tags[2]: Agentic AI, AI Infrastructure
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    AWS Strands Agents Team Releases Strands Harness: An Open-Source Agent Harness With 28% Lower Token Cost,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/21/aws-strands-agents-team-releases-strands-harness/
    "strands-agents/harness-sdk (harness-python v0.1.1, harness-typescript v0.1.0)",github.com,https://github.com/strands-agents/harness-sdk
    "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up (Linear engineering)",linear.app,https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked
    MiMo v2.6 announcement page,mimo.xiaomi.com,https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6
    MiMo v2.6 | Hacker News (923 points),news.ycombinator.com,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730
    "MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis",artificialanalysis.ai,https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/mimo-v2-6-pro
    Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 model listings on OpenRouter,openrouter.ai,https://openrouter.ai/xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-pro
    SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.7: A Larger Base Model at the Same $2/$6 Price as Grok 4.6,marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/21/spacexai-releases-grok-4-7/
    Grok 4.7 model listing on OpenRouter,openrouter.ai,https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-4.7
    ghuntley/preflight: local proxy that scans LLM requests for secrets,github.com,https://github.com/ghuntley/preflight
    OSWorld-Pro: Process-based Evaluation for Computer Use Agents,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24890
    Oldcircle/geo-sleuth: agent skill that geolocates photos,github.com,https://github.com/Oldcircle/geo-sleuth
    disler/self-compact-pi-agent: self-compacting coding-agent extension,github.com,https://github.com/disler/self-compact-pi-agent
    Harness-Zero: Harness Distillation via Agent-as-Harness,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24974
    RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24972
    DolphinBench: Mapping the Pareto Frontier of Agent Memory,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24971
    "Et Tu, Brute? Economic Misalignment in Personal AI Agents",arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24927
    Announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Terence Tao),terrytao.wordpress.com,https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-artificial-intelligence/
    Emergent Collusion in Long-Horizon LLM Agent Interaction,arxiv.org,https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24967
    MarkTechPost Open Source category (standing scout lane),marktechpost.com,https://www.marktechpost.com/category/technology/open-source/

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  > AWS open-sources a 28%-cheaper agent harness, Xiaomi's MiMo v2.6 tops open weights, and math gets an advisory group with teeth.

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