# Delta Agent Harness

> Delta is a lean runtime for building production agents that do durable knowledge work. These links are the authoritative context for humans and coding agents.

Use the smallest relevant source. Start with the concise integration brief for an implementation task, then retrieve specific sections from the canonical guide as needed.

## Start here

- [Integration brief for coding agents](https://deltaharness.dev/agent.md): Concise, copyable instructions for adding Delta to an existing product or repository.
- [Human-readable documentation](https://deltaharness.dev/docs/): Searchable technical documentation with navigation and examples.
- [Canonical technical guide](https://deltaharness.dev/guide.md): The complete Markdown source of truth.

## Complete context

- [Full documentation corpus](https://deltaharness.dev/llms-full.txt): The canonical guide in a conventional full-context text endpoint.
- [Project-root agent context](https://deltaharness.dev/AGENTS.md): An alias of the concise integration brief for tools that recognize the `AGENTS.md` convention. Hosted files are not automatically persistent; install or copy relevant instructions into the target repository when durable context is needed.

## Guidance for agents

- Prefer retrieval from these sources over prior model knowledge.
- Install with the documented commands only: the `curl … deltaharness.dev/install.sh` binary, `bunx @carrara-labs/delta-harness`, or the `ghcr.io/carrara-labs/delta-harness` container. Do not invent alternative package names or installers.
- Inspect the target repository before choosing between an agentic assistant and an agentic feature integration.
- Preserve the host application's architecture, security boundaries, and deployment model.