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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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affaan-m/ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-15
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-18
License
MIT
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232 open
Forks
41,914
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3,934 commits
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+5,294 +1.9%
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+219 +5.9%
langgenius/dify

Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-24
Lists
10 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-15
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NOASSERTION
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1,077 open
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24,738
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13,615 commits
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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
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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
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-21
License
MIT
Issues
36 open
Forks
12,272
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233 commits
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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
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2026-10-16
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8 list mentions
First commit
2023-06-20
License
Apache-2.0
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838 open
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7,921
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2,673 commits
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+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
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9 list mentions
First commit
2023-07-27
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NOASSERTION
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5,485 open
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12,395
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54,633 commits
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+79 +0.1%
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+159 +0.3%
aaif-goose/goose

an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

AI dev
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2026-09-25
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7 list mentions
First commit
2024-08-23
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Apache-2.0
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415 open
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6,314
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5,729 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
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-14
License
MIT
Issues
5 open
Forks
6,776
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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
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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
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4 list mentions
First commit
2025-07-24
License
MIT
Issues
8 open
Forks
4,220
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569 commits
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Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode

Teams-first Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code

AI dev
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2026-09-09
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-09
License
MIT
Issues
3 open
Forks
3,499
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4,624 commits
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esengine/DeepSeek-Reasonix

A reliable coding agent for complex software engineering tasks.

AI dev
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2026-10-17
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5 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-21
License
MIT
Issues
350 open
Forks
2,456
Commits
10,481 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+60 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+1,564 +17.5%
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%
ComposioHQ/composio

Composio powers 1000+ toolkits, tool search, context management, authentication, and a sandboxed workbench to help you build AI agents that turn intent into action.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-08
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-11
License
MIT
Issues
79 open
Forks
4,783
Commits
5,127 commits
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vercel/ai

The AI Toolkit for TypeScript. From the creators of Next.js, the AI SDK is a free open-source library for building AI-powered applications and agents

AI dev
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2026-10-16
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6 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-23
License
NOASSERTION
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1,398 open
Forks
5,358
Commits
9,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+124 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+75 +0.8%
promptfoo/promptfoo

Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming/pentesting/vulnerability scanning for AI. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration. Used by OpenAI and Anthropic.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-14
Lists
9 list mentions
First commit
2023-03-31
License
MIT
Issues
713 open
Forks
2,476
Commits
10,381 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
a2aproject/A2A

Agent2Agent (A2A) is an open protocol enabling communication and interoperability between opaque agentic applications.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-04
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3 list mentions
First commit
2025-03-25
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
246 open
Forks
2,598
Commits
624 commits
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No 7-day history
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%
trycua/cua

Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-12
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2025-01-31
License
MIT
Issues
846 open
Forks
1,561
Commits
4,713 commits
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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
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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
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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
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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
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,538 open
Forks
1,635
Commits
4,165 commits
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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%
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
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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%
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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
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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
Lists
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%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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%
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0 0.0%
agentscope-ai/agentscope-java

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-17
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-09-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
911 open
Forks
1,495
Commits
1,248 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
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No 7-day history