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Awesome Harness Engineering

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pipecat-ai/pipecat

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

AI dev
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2026-09-09
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3 list mentions
First commit
2023-12-26
License
BSD-2-Clause
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324 open
Forks
2,650
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12,474 commits
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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
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303 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-17
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-09
License
MIT
Issues
12 open
Forks
1,594
Commits
588 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
getagentseal/codeburn

Free, local tool to track AI coding token usage and cost across 37 tools and agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini and more), by model, project, and task. npx codeburn

AI dev
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2026-09-27
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-13
License
MIT
Issues
28 open
Forks
864
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2,392 commits
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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
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6 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,538 open
Forks
1,635
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4,165 commits
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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
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2026-10-16
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6 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-16
License
Apache-2.0
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1,006 open
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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
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2026-10-13
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5 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
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788 open
Forks
1,159
Commits
1,433 commits
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+21 +0.3%
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+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
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2026-09-10
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3 list mentions
First commit
2023-04-25
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NOASSERTION
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228 open
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831
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3,818 commits
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open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-18
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6 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-31
License
MIT
Issues
4 open
Forks
2,434
Commits
572 commits
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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
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2026-09-10
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-02
License
MIT
Issues
267 open
Forks
1,113
Commits
2,500 commits
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Helicone/helicone

🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-10
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8 list mentions
First commit
2022-11-29
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
170 open
Forks
685
Commits
5,488 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+15 +0.2%
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microsoft/TaskWeaver

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

Archived AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
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3 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-11
License
MIT
Issues
53 open
Forks
780
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657 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
agentscope-ai/agentscope-java

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-17
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2 list mentions
First commit
2025-09-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
911 open
Forks
1,495
Commits
1,248 commits
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0 0.0%
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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
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ModelEngine-Group/nexent

Nexent is a zero-code platform for auto-generating production-grade AI agents using Harness Engineering principles — unified tools, skills, memory, and orchestration with built-in constraints, feedback loops, and control planes.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-28
License
MIT
Issues
262 open
Forks
725
Commits
5,745 commits
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oomol-lab/open-connector

Open-source auth gateway connecting 1400+ SaaS providers to AI agents through SDK, CLI, MCP, HTTP, and OpenAPI.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
2 open
Forks
492
Commits
675 commits
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truefoundry/trueforge

The open-source agent harness - the runtime layer that turns an LLM into a working agent.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-10
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-07-23
License
MIT
Issues
91 open
Forks
396
Commits
585 commits
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lintsinghua/claude-code-book

《御舆:解码 Agent Harness》42万字拆解 AI Agent 的Harness骨架与神经 —— Claude Code 架构深度剖析,15 章从对话循环到构建你自己的 Agent Harness。在线阅读网站:

Updated
2026-09-05
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-31
License
Unknown
Issues
9 open
Forks
827
Commits
42 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox

agent-sandbox enables easy management of isolated, stateful, singleton workloads, ideal for use cases like AI agent runtimes and reinforcement learning (RL).

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-05
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-08-12
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
231 open
Forks
487
Commits
946 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
awslabs/agentcore-samples

Amazon Bedrock Agentcore accelerates AI agents into production with the scale, reliability, and security, critical to real-world deployment.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-05
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-07-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
429 open
Forks
1,317
Commits
687 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Infisical/agent-vault

A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, custom agents + harnesses, and more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-27
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
90 open
Forks
163
Commits
330 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
codejunkie99/agentic-stack

One brain, many harnesses. Portable .agent/ folder (memory + skills + protocols) that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, or DIY Python — and keeps its knowledge when you switch.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-12
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-15
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
3 open
Forks
282
Commits
199 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+3 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+2 +1.0%
future-agi/future-agi

Open-source, end-to-end platform for evaluating, observing, and improving LLM and AI agent applications. Tracing · Evals · Simulations · Datasets · Gateway · Guardrails. Self-hostable. Apache 2.0.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-07
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
809 open
Forks
583
Commits
4,849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history