Shipping Modern JavaScript: Agent Harness

React Office Hours Starting @ 5pm we hold office hours. Come on by to get some help, ask questions, and meet other developers. Or just hang out! \-\-\- The Other Half of the Stack (Bishop Zareh) Andrej Karpathy published a wiki pattern for giving AI persistent memory. Addy Osmani published production-grade agent skills with verification gates and staged discipline. Both landed in April 2026. Neither combined them into a system you could actually run a product on. Bishop Zareh did, and in February he showed React ATX the code half: a production-ready React 19, TypeScript, and Vite boilerplate built for agent-assisted development. This talk is the other half. Agent Harness is a Markdown operating loop (wiki, lifecycle, skills) that sits alongside the boilerplate and turns Karpathy's memory architecture and Osmani's skill discipline into something you can run from idea to shipped artifact without losing the thread between sessions. He opens with what those two systems get right, names what still breaks when you bolt them onto real work, and runs a live demo of the harness driving a project through its lifecycle on a fresh clone. If you left the boilerplate talk wondering where the agent actually lives, this is the answer. Bio: Bishop Zareh is an Austin-based creative technologist and returning React ATX speaker who builds with React, TypeScript, and Vite. He created the 2026 Agent Harness and 2026 Boilerplate as a paired stack for AI-assisted product work, and organizes the Vibe Code Austin meetup group. \-\-\- Station Austin is sponsoring the venue! Want to be a sponsor? Food, Drinks, Venue? Reach out! Schedule 5.00 - 6.00 = React Office Hours 6.00 - 6.15 = Setting up, eating/drinking 6.15 - 8.00 = Presentations Doors open 15 minutes before. The elevators will work only then. Come to the 16th floor. Parking There is partial parking validation. If you enter the garage attached to the Omni (entrance on Brazos Street) after 5pm and leave before 10pm, you will be given a parking slip that reduces your fee to $8 flat for the duration of your stay within that time frame. • What to bring Curiosity, Kindness, Willingness To Learn • Important to know Be Nice!