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Pydantic AI v2 ships a leaner core and a "Harness" abstraction.

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Pydantic AI v2 brings type-safety to agent runtimes with a slimmed core and a new Harness for running agents, competing with LangChain and Microsoft's Agent Framework. Same week as Vercel and GitHub all naming the harness layer explicitly. That's three independent "the runtime is the product" signals in seven days.

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