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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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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
Commits
13,615 commits
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No 7-day history
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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
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%
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
Issues
5,485 open
Forks
12,395
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54,633 commits
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+79 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+159 +0.3%
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
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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
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+510 +1.3%
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+117 +4.3%
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
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
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Apache-2.0
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309 open
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2,361
Commits
1,640 commits
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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
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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
Updated
2026-10-16
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6 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,398 open
Forks
5,358
Commits
9,119 commits
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+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%
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
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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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
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0 0.0%
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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
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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
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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
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
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
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%
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%
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
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
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
ZJU-REAL/ClawGUI

Build, Evaluate, and Deploy GUI Agents — online RL training, standardized benchmarks, and real-device deployment in one framework.

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-03
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-26
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
6 open
Forks
56
Commits
211 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
greyhaven-ai/autocontext

a recursive self-improving harness designed to help your agents (and future iterations of those agents) succeed on any task

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-14
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-02-12
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
16 open
Forks
115
Commits
2,209 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein

The open‑source AI Agents Governance & Orchestration framework: write the rules declaratively, Bernstein enforces them and produces the verifiable, replayable record. Free, Apache-2.0. https://bernstein.run

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-22
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-27
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
426 open
Forks
171
Commits
5,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
agentscope-ai/agentscope-runtime

A production-ready runtime framework for agent apps with secure tool sandboxing, Agent-as-a-Service APIs, scalable deployment, full-stack observability, and broad framework compatibility.

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-04
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-08-14
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
72 open
Forks
169
Commits
290 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
rotorstar/hitl-protocol

Open HTTP protocol for human decisions in AI agent workflows. Service-hosted reviews, structured approvals, selections and forms, with optional messenger actions.

Updated
2026-10-06
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-02-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1 open
Forks
1
Commits
50 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%