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dosticktoday at 6:52 AM1 replyview on HN

Does the harness apply when you sue Claude model in third party IDE? like Opencode, or third party adds their harness on top, not replacing it?


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laruss5today at 9:18 AM

Depends what you mean by "apply." The harness-specific instructions (Claude Code's own system prompt quirks) only get sent if Claude Code is the program calling the API. OpenCode or any other third-party tool writes and sends its own system prompt instead, so those exact lines aren't there. Whatever behavior shows up across different harnesses anyway is more likely a trained default of the model itself, not something coming from a particular harness's prompt.