The Factory That Pays for Itself, Part 4: A Model Is Not a System — The Harness Is the IP

The vision-language model is open-weight. The local LLM is commodity. What makes autonomous e-Kanban trustworthy on a factory floor is the deterministic harness: the BeforeToolCallEvent provenance gate, the bounded belief update, and the Episode lineage queryable via Apache Iceberg and AWS S3 Tables.