# Passive Agent

Agents that must wait for a request from the JT Harness harness before they can run tests.

The JT Harness harness initiates connections to passive agents as needed. Passive agents are simpler, but less flexible than active agents because you must specify the test machine as part of the test configuration, not at the time you run the tests. Passive agents do not allow you to run tests in parallel.

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