Making budget models punch above their weight with a smart Rust harness
Summary
Dirge is a Rust-based agent harness designed to improve performance and reliability of AI-driven coding tasks. The article details a state-machine architecture with steering, long-horizon memory, and an active learning memory store backed by SQLite, plus a plugin system for deep customization. It argues that such a harness can help cheaper models perform like more expensive ones by better managing tool calls, context, and failure modes.