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Agent Harness

How agents run and make decisions: tools, state, execution loops, recovery and human intervention. Includes System 1 approaches such as Jev and Laya, and the division between fast decisions and deeper reasoning.

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Further reading · Anthropic: harnesses for long-running agents ↗
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2026-10-05 · 13:00 Tech Week San Francisco America/Los Angeles Ended

The Integration Layer for AI Agents

Coffee networking with Open Future Forum and Agentic Fabriq on MCP, APIs, connectors, permissions and infrastructure for connecting agents to external systems.

Open Future Forum / Agentic Fabriq
FiDi (SF)

The latest Luma description says this is informal coffee networking, with no formal talks or stage agenda. Public Luma address: Yes SF Headquarters, 220 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA.

Related topic · Agent Harness Luma ↗

Source · checked 2026-10-12 ↗

2026-10-05 · 17:00 Tech Week San Francisco America/Los Angeles Ended

Agents in Production: Shared Memory

SurrealDB and Mastra explore shared memory in production: how agents know what to read and keep answers correct when underlying facts change. Includes technical talks, demos and Q&A.

SurrealDB
FiDi (SF)

AWS Builder Loft requires attendees to be at least 18 and bring a valid physical government-issued photo ID.

Related topic · Agent Harness

Source · checked 2026-10-12 ↗

2026-10-06 · 13:00 Tech Week San Francisco America/Los Angeles Ended

The MCP Gateway

Coffee networking with Open Future Forum and Agentic Fabriq on MCP, APIs, connectors, permissions and infrastructure for connecting agents to external systems.

Agentic Fabriq / Open Future Forum
FiDi (SF)

The latest Luma description says this is informal coffee networking, with no formal talks or stage agenda. Public Luma address: JOE & THE JUICE, 301 Howard St Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA.

Related topic · Agent Harness Luma ↗

Source · checked 2026-10-12 ↗

2026-10-06 · 16:00 Tech Week San Francisco America/Los Angeles Ended

Post-Training & Agent Infra - #SF TechWeek

A discussion of agent product infrastructure, from model post-training and inference to harnesses learning from execution traces, deployment data and talent. Connects model capabilities with systems engineering.

Beta University
SOMA
Related topic · Agent Harness

Source · checked 2026-10-12 ↗

2026-10-06 · 17:30 Tech Week San Francisco America/Los Angeles Ended

Camp AI: Production-Ready Agents

Auth0 hosts technical discussions on production agents, covering identity, security, automation and scale, with guests and demos from Anthropic, Cloudflare, Browserbase and others.

Auth0
Embarcadero

Suitable for developers taking agents from prototypes into enterprise use.

Related topic · Agent Harness

Source · checked 2026-10-12 ↗

2026-10-06 · 17:30 Tech Week San Francisco America/Los Angeles Ended

Self-improving Agentic Harness

Neens uses real agents to demonstrate failure detection, proposed fixes and regression gates, exploring how improvements connect to business metrics and operating costs.

Neens.ai
SOMA

Actual capabilities depend on the organizer’s demonstration.

Related topic · Agent repair & regression checks

Source · checked 2026-10-12 ↗

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Decision models: additional Luma leads

Three official-calendar events explicitly involving Jev or XOR are included in Agent Harness, including the newly listed online What Would Jev Do? session. Luma also confirms Jev at the October 11 Multi Model Hackathon. The current official descriptions and checked Luma leads do not confirm a Laya event held in person within this edition’s two-city date range.

The following two events fall within SF Tech Week dates but do not appear in this official calendar snapshot. Each card lists the connection and remaining uncertainties.

10/08 · 17:30SFModel team connection

Pulling their weight: Shipping open models to production ↗

Fastino Labs hosts an open-model panel and networking at its new SF office, covering evaluation, building and production deployment. Fastino Labs also develops the GLiNER2.5-Decide decision model.

The published agenda does not explicitly list Jev, Laya, GLiNER2.5-Decide or a System 1 session. This is a lead for meeting the related model team.

Model reference ↗

Additional Luma lead · Excluded from confirmed countsView on Luma ↗
10/11 · 09:00SFVerified supplementary System 1 event

Multi Model Hackathon - #SFTechWeek ↗

The October 11 multi-model hackathon explicitly names System 1 models such as Jev for fast tool calling, model selection and intelligent routing.

The latest public description corrects the earlier “Jeff” to “Jev”. The model name is now verified, but this event has not been paired with a current official-calendar record and is excluded from official topic counts.

Additional Luma lead · Excluded from confirmed countsView on Luma ↗

Decision model source review

Completed two full pagination passes for SF (22 pages) and LA (11 pages), covering 2,396 official records. Re-read every detail and additionally read 489 event pages to recover complete descriptions.

Extending Postgres With Sync Engine · XOR demo ↗: October 7, 13:30–15:30 in SOMA. Adds an open-weight decision model demo that takes text, images or video and outputs probabilities for candidate answers.

What Would Jev Do? · Online Jev session and hackathon ↗:Starts online October 6 at 7:00 PM PT, covering how Jev differs from LLMs, judgment-task costs, and agent harness integration. Building and submissions continue through October 11.

Official XOR model reference ↗

This refresh re-read all 162 known links through the Luma plugin and ran four supplemental LA Tech Week searches. It verified 169 publicly accessible event details, confirmed two cancellations, and found one page still non-public. There are now 69 official-calendar matches, of which 67 could be freshly verified from public details. Registration and addresses reflect the public information available at this check.

Luma page for the confirmed event ↗. The official calendar calls it The Personal Agent Shift; Luma now calls it Your Agent Thinks Too Much. The organizer, October 8 at 17:00 session and agenda match, so it is counted once.

Online events and references outside these dates or cities

Scope: SF October 5–11 and LA October 12–18; all times are PDT. The official calendar also includes some online events, identified on the cards from their descriptions. This Luma pass rechecked known links and added LA searches; it is neither a complete site export nor a fresh site-wide Jev/Laya search. Checked through 2026-10-12 09:58.

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