Building an autonomous agent requires a model, a harness, and domain-specific tools. To deploy an agent more securely, developers need a runtime that enforces policies, along with optimization and observability tools for reliable execution.
For production agents, the challenge lies in making these agents capable and safe to operate with access to real enterprise systems and data.
This post explains how these components work together, with a focus on how NVIDIA NemoClaw open blueprints enable developers to build specialized agents on a stack they can own, customize, and run. This post provides criteria to help developers integrate NemoClaw with a harness they already use: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, or LangChain Deep Agents.
What an agent harness provides
An agent requires four things:
- A model that reasons.
- A harness that defines how the agent operates.
- Tools and skills that extend its capabilities.
- A runtime that governs what the agent can access and do in production.
NemoClaw works with agent harnesses
NemoClaw open blueprints currently support three harnesses:
- OpenClaw can access files and applications, write code, spawn sub-agents,…