- What is an AI agent harness?
- An agent harness is the runtime layer around your model — handling memory, tool access, scheduling, credentials, and orchestration so the model can focus on reasoning. Friday ships the harness pre-built.
- How is Friday different from OpenClaw?
- Friday is built for reliability from the start. Workflows run from a versioned workspace.yml — diffable, repeatable, importable, shareable. Every run is traceable to the config that produced it. No hidden state, no invisible behavior to debug around.
- What is workspace.yml?
- The single source of truth for a Friday workspace. It declares agents, tools, triggers, memory stores, and job steps in one file. Diffable, portable, and readable without a UI. Runs identically on any machine.
- How do jobs get triggered?
- Signals. A signal can be a cron schedule, an HTTP endpoint, a Slack message, or a webhook. You define the trigger in workspace.yml; Friday's signal gateway handles the rest.
- What happens when an agent fails?
- The FSM captures the failure state. You get the exact step, the error, and the config that produced it. Fix the workspace.yml, redeploy, and the job runs from a clean state — no hidden runtime behavior to debug around.