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Best Of Agent Harnesses

🏆 Ranked list of 167 AI agent harnesses, plus copy-paste templates (AGENTS.md, safe Claude Code settings, a minimal harness) and step-by-step playbooks. MCP server, llms.txt & JSON. Rescored weekly.

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What is an agent harness?

Simon Willison's definition

of the agent itself is the cleanest: "an LLM agent runs tools in a loop to achieve a goal." The harness is everything around that loop: which tools exist, what needs approval, what the model sees each turn, what survives a crash. Andrej Karpathy named the architecture back in 2023: the model is…

Graveyard

everything-claude-code

suspected star manipulation — ~228k stars / ~35k forks on a repo created 2026-01 with no matching install base, dependents, or discussion; fork-to-star ratio and growth curve are inconsistent with organic adoption

In 7 listsDetails

spring-ai-tool-search-tool

archived upstream — kept for citation

coderClaw

archived upstream — kept for citation

On the radar

deepseek-harness

DeepSeek Harness: Everything is a Plugin.

In 5 listsDetails

agenticSeek

Fully Local Manus AI. No APIs, No $200 monthly bills. Enjoy an autonomous agent that thinks, browses the web, and code for the sole cost of electricity.

In 3 lists

openfang

Open-source Agent Operating System

In 2 lists

evolver

The GEP-powered self-evolving engine for AI agents. Auditable evolution with Genes, Capsules, and Events. | evomap.ai

In 3 lists

openevolve

Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve

In 2 lists

open-multi-agent

Self-hosted TypeScript agent runtime with durable approvals and verifiable run records. Own it, approve it, audit it.

In 4 listsDetails

intentkit

IntentKit is an open-source, self-hosted cloud agent cluster that manages a collaborative team of AI agents for you.

In 2 lists

agentscope-java

Build distributed, production-grade, long-running agents.

In 3 lists

vibesdk

An open-source vibe coding platform that helps you build your own vibe-coding platform, built entirely on Cloudflare stack

In 3 lists

eko

Eko (Eko Keeps Operating) - Build Production-ready Agentic Workflow with Natural Language - eko.fellou.ai

fast-agent

Code, Build and Evaluate agents - excellent Model and Skills/MCP/ACP/A2A Support

antigravity-sdk-python

A Python library for building AI agents that leverage the full power of Google Antigravity.

MIRIX

Mirix is a multi-agent personal assistant designed to track on-screen activities and answer user questions intelligently. By capturing real-time visual data…

antigravity-cli

Antigravity CLI brings the reasoning, execution, and orchestration capabilities of Antigravity agent harness directly into your terminal.

OrcaReplay

Record, replay, fork, and debug any agent run with any model; time travel for AI agents.

In 11 listsDetails

llm-wiki-cli

Proactive memory CLI for AI agents: recall, maintain, and evolve persistent, source-grounded knowledge across sessions.

In 5 listsDetails

red-team-blue-team-agent-fabric

AI agent security harness for adversarial testing: 600+ executable tests across MCP, A2A, x402/L402, and decision governance.

loopgate_harness

Run any CLI agent in a loop against specs: fresh context each iteration, the repo as durable memory, lint/types/tests/security enforced by git hooks so bad c…

GoodMemory

Local-first, auditable memory layer for AI apps and coding agents (Codex, Claude Code, MCP, HTTP).

In 4 listsDetails

teamcopilot

Deploy AI agents for your team to automate business workflows and coding.

nausicaa-harness

Treats an agent run as a dynamic topology of lanes instead of one linear loop; the model decides when to observe or fan out.

dsh-mcp-lens

MCP tool search for large catalogs: 1,000 tools behind 2 schemas, exact-schema calls, allow/deny controls.

In 4 listsDetails

atlarix-releases

Atlarix: open-weight frontier harness, release repository.

mcp-guardian

MCP proxy for tool scoping and context compression: progressive discovery with 3 meta-tools.

Awesome

Awesome lists on many topics

In 23 listsDetails

OpenAI – Harness engineering

Environment design, intent, feedback loops, repo-as-system-of-record

In 4 listsDetails

Anthropic – Effective harnesses for long-running agents

Session bridging, feature lists, incremental progress, testing

In 4 listsDetails

Aakash Gupta (Medium) – 2026 is agent harnesses

Harness as moat, minimal intervention, progressive disclosure

YC Paper Club (video) – Why the harness matters more than the model

September 2026 session with the authors of Prime Agent, OpenJarvis, and QM; the history of harnesses runs from 7:00 to 17:00

LangChain

, Anthropic, OpenAI: Official docs for major agent platforms

Thank you, contributors

@baskduf

harness-starter-kit · @ahwurm — LocalHarness · @liviux — LoopTroop · @rishabhpoddar — TeamCopilot, on the radar · @abilliontokens — oh-my-pi · @pranshuchittora — agent-qa · @madarco — AgentBox · @jmthomasofficial — JMT x402 Agent Tools · @ShukantPal — Proliferate · @hjqcan — GoodMemory ·…

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Table of Contents

hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code

A hand-picked collection of the finest of resources for the most awesome of agents, Claude Code, the undisputed champion of coding companions, from the unstoppable team…

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Awesome Agent Skills

VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills

A curated collection of 1000+ agent skills from official dev teams and the community, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more.

Fresh★ 35k839 entriesPushed today
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Awesome Machine Learning

josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning

A curated list of awesome Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software.

Fresh★ 74k1188 entriesPushed 7 days ago
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Awesome Production Machine Learning

EthicalML/awesome-production-machine-learning

A curated list of awesome open source libraries to deploy, monitor, version and scale your machine learning

Fresh★ 21k519 entriesPushed 3 days ago
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AWESOME DATA SCIENCE

academic/awesome-datascience

:memo: An awesome Data Science repository to learn and apply for real world problems.

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Static Analysis

analysis-tools-dev/static-analysis

⚙️ A curated list of static analysis (SAST) tools and linters for all programming languages, config files, build tools, and more. The focus is on tools which improve…

Fresh★ 15k528 entriesPushed 8 days ago