Inside a governed software factory: Harness and Cosmos | Harness Blog
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Harness and Cosmos present an integrated approach to “software factories” that use AI agents to automate software engineering while maintaining enterprise governance, security, and accountability. Cosmos orchestrates specialized, event-driven agents that turn inputs such as tickets, pull requests, incidents, and vulnerability alerts into designs, code changes, reviews, fixes, and evidence, while retaining responsibility for services after deployment. Harness supplies the governed delivery layer, using customer-hosted execution, zero-trust task validation, scoped credentials, policy enforcement, security scanning, deployment controls, continuous verification, rollback, and audit trails. The companies argue that combining Cosmos’s codebase and operational context with Harness’s production controls allows organizations to automate more work without sacrificing oversight, with reported internal results including faster merge times, higher developer output, lower revert rates, and quicker incident analysis. Their model emphasizes versioned workflows, specialized agents, human approval at critical points, current contextual data, and feedback from production to progressively expand autonomy based on demonstrated reliability.
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