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Awesome Harness Engineering

Awesome list for AI agent harness engineering: tools, patterns, evals, memory, MCP, permissions, observability, and orchestration.

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browser-use/browser-use

Open-source Python library for AI browser agents, plus Browser Use Cloud: stealth browsers and a hosted agent API.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
9 list mentions
First commit
2024-10-31
License
MIT
Issues
563 open
Forks
13,112
Commits
10,386 commits
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+640 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+41 +0.4%
bytedance/deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-07
License
MIT
Issues
934 open
Forks
11,699
Commits
4,173 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code

Bash is all you need - A nano claude code–like 「agent harness」, built from 0 to 1

Updated
2026-08-26
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-21
License
MIT
Issues
36 open
Forks
12,272
Commits
233 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
mem0ai/mem0

The Memory Layer for AI Agents - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2023-06-20
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
838 open
Forks
7,921
Commits
2,673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+186 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+2 +0.1%
BerriAI/litellm

The fastest, litest AI Gateway. Rust core with Python SDK. Call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, VertexAI, vLLM, Nvidia NIM]

AI dev
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2026-10-16
Lists
9 list mentions
First commit
2023-07-27
License
NOASSERTION
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5,485 open
Forks
12,395
Commits
54,633 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+79 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+159 +0.3%
crewAIInc/crewAI

Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-17
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2023-10-27
License
MIT
Issues
749 open
Forks
8,757
Commits
2,987 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+230 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+34 +1.2%
HKUDS/nanobot

Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-30
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-01
License
MIT
Issues
810 open
Forks
8,598
Commits
4,641 commits
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sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills

Installable GitHub library of 1,800+ agentic skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and more. Includes specialized plugins, installer CLI, bundles, workflows, and official/community skill collections.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-07
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-14
License
MIT
Issues
5 open
Forks
6,776
Commits
2,152 commits
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volcengine/OpenViking

Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-17
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-29
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
950 open
Forks
3,198
Commits
2,853 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+510 +1.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+117 +4.3%
wshobson/agents

Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-07
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2025-07-24
License
MIT
Issues
8 open
Forks
4,220
Commits
569 commits
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No 7-day history
chopratejas/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-18
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
309 open
Forks
2,361
Commits
1,640 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
topoteretes/cognee

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory with small models for free

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
806 open
Forks
3,379
Commits
11,602 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+438 +1.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+217 +1.9%
comet-ml/opik

Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic workflows with comprehensive tracing, automated evaluations, and production-ready dashboards.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
11 list mentions
First commit
2024-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
189 open
Forks
1,864
Commits
7,548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+29 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+22 +0.3%
google/adk-python

An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-09
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
521 open
Forks
3,973
Commits
4,142 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
pydantic/pydantic-ai

How Python does AI. Agents, realtime voice, image generation, embeddings. Every model, every interface, typed end to end.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
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7 list mentions
First commit
2024-06-14
License
MIT
Issues
1,454 open
Forks
2,927
Commits
4,201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+28 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+48 +1.2%
SWE-agent/SWE-agent

SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-12
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2024-04-02
License
MIT
Issues
156 open
Forks
2,305
Commits
2,182 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+59 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
confident-ai/deepeval

The LLM Evaluation Framework

Updated
2026-10-15
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
735 open
Forks
2,077
Commits
10,406 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+120 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+40 +0.4%
microsoft/SkillOpt

SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen LLM agents through trajectory-driven edits, validation-gated updates, and deployable best_skill.md artifacts.

Updated
2026-10-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-05-21
License
MIT
Issues
47 open
Forks
1,707
Commits
575 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
browser-use/browser-harness

Browser Harness | Self-healing harness that enables LLMs to complete any task.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-17
License
MIT
Issues
331 open
Forks
1,693
Commits
627 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
pipecat-ai/pipecat

Open Source framework for voice agents, multimodal apps, and realtime AI. Maintained by Daily and the community.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-09
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-12-26
License
BSD-2-Clause
Issues
324 open
Forks
2,650
Commits
12,474 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

Fully autonomous & self-evolving research from idea to paper. Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. 🦞

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-15
License
MIT
Issues
18 open
Forks
1,709
Commits
303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
omnigent-ai/omnigent

Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-28
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,538 open
Forks
1,635
Commits
4,165 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
strands-agents/harness-sdk

Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,006 open
Forks
1,383
Commits
2,987 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+81 +0.9%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+67 +2.3%
traceloop/openllmetry

Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-13
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
788 open
Forks
1,159
Commits
1,433 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+21 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+5 +0.4%
NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-04-25
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
228 open
Forks
831
Commits
3,818 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
microsoft/LLMLingua

[EMNLP'23, ACL'24] To speed up LLMs' inference and enhance LLM's perceive of key information, compress the prompt and KV-Cache, which achieves up to 20x compression with minimal performance loss.

Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2023-07-07
License
MIT
Issues
124 open
Forks
438
Commits
87 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-02
License
MIT
Issues
267 open
Forks
1,113
Commits
2,500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
microsoft/TaskWeaver

The first "code-first" agent framework for seamlessly planning and executing data analytics tasks.

Archived AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-11
License
MIT
Issues
53 open
Forks
780
Commits
657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
AgentOps-AI/agentops

Python SDK for AI agent monitoring, LLM cost tracking, benchmarking, and more. Integrates with most LLMs and agent frameworks including CrewAI, Agno, OpenAI Agents SDK, Langchain, Autogen, AG2, and CamelAI

Updated
2026-06-25
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-15
License
MIT
Issues
192 open
Forks
643
Commits
811 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+9 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
agent-infra/sandbox

All-in-One Sandbox for AI Agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server in a single Docker container.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-25
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-09-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
70 open
Forks
520
Commits
125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history