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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
Issues
232 open
Forks
41,914
Commits
3,934 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+5,294 +1.9%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+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
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,077 open
Forks
24,738
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13,615 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
openai/codex

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-09
Lists
10 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
16,087 open
Forks
18,835
Commits
10,475 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
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
Star growth, last 7 days
+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%
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
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
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2026-10-17
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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%
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
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
415 open
Forks
6,314
Commits
5,729 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
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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
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
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
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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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
Lists
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%
ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui

AG-UI: the Agent-User Interaction Protocol. Bring Agents into Frontend Applications.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-15
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2025-05-07
License
MIT
Issues
476 open
Forks
1,534
Commits
4,796 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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
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
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/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
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No 7-day history
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
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
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
agentgateway/agentgateway

Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-07
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
296 open
Forks
815
Commits
2,596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
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