AI research has spent the last few years treating the model as the main character. Which model is smarter? Which one reasons better? Which one can survive harder benchmarks? Those questions still matter, but this week’s Ritual research digest points to something more interesting: the real leverage is moving into the system around the model. Not the engine itself, but the machine built around it. The Rise of the Harness A model does not work in isolation. Every useful agent has a structure aro...