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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
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3,934 commits
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+5,294 +1.9%
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+219 +5.9%
DietrichGebert/ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-16
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-12
License
MIT
Issues
23 open
Forks
8,927
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355 commits
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0 0.0%
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stablyai/orca

Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime.

AI dev
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2026-09-26
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9 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-17
License
MIT
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6,929 open
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5,128
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11,757 commits
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diegosouzapw/OmniRoute

Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 359 providers (150+ free), 1200+ models Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Cline & Copilot. Quota-aware auto-fallback, RTK+Caveman compression saves 15-95% tokens, MCP/A2A, Desktop/PWA. Built by hundreds of contributors

AI dev
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2026-10-17
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5 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-18
License
MIT
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334 open
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11,209
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10,753 commits
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+2,415 +3.2%
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+432 +4.2%
shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code

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

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2026-08-26
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-21
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MIT
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36 open
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12,272
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233 commits
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DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp

High-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 162 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.

Updated
2026-10-16
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4 list mentions
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2026-02-24
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MIT
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633 open
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3,844
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4,183 commits
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0 0.0%
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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
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6,776
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2,152 commits
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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
Updated
2026-09-09
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-09
License
MIT
Issues
3 open
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3,499
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4,624 commits
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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
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309 open
Forks
2,361
Commits
1,640 commits
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mksglu/context-mode

Context window optimization for AI coding agents. Sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), persists session memory, and enforces routing across 17 platforms via MCP + hooks.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-11
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-23
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NOASSERTION
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233 open
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1,603
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2,179 commits
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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
Lists
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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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
Updated
2026-09-27
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-13
License
MIT
Issues
28 open
Forks
864
Commits
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
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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revfactory/harness

A meta-skill that designs domain-specific agent teams, defines specialized agents, and generates the skills they use.

Updated
2026-07-24
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-26
License
Apache-2.0
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28 open
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1,258
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45 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
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-31
License
MIT
Issues
4 open
Forks
2,434
Commits
572 commits
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builderz-labs/mission-control

Self-hosted control plane for AI agents: dispatch tasks, review runs, track spend, and operate OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and other runtimes.

AI dev
Updated
2026-10-12
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-22
License
MIT
Issues
53 open
Forks
120
Commits
538 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+22 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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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matt1398/claude-devtools

The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI. Free, open source.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-26
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-11
License
MIT
Issues
54 open
Forks
305
Commits
357 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
wquguru/harness-books

📚 Two books on harness engineering — the design philosophies behind Claude Code & Codex: constraints, query loops, context governance, multi-agent verification. harness-books.agentway.dev

AI dev
Updated
2026-04-19
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-01
License
Unknown
Issues
5 open
Forks
364
Commits
39 commits
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GammaLabTechnologies/harmonist

Portable AI agent orchestration with mechanical protocol enforcement. 186 agents, zero runtime dependencies.

Updated
2026-06-09
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-04-23
License
MIT
Issues
1 open
Forks
210
Commits
10 commits
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0 0.0%
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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
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0 0.0%
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thClaws/thClaws

Open-source AI agent harness in native Rust — GUI, CLI, headless, and webapp from one binary. Multi-provider, MCP, skills, plugins, agent teams.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-05
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-20
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1 open
Forks
175
Commits
600 commits
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browser-use/bux

Browser Use Box: a 24/7 Claude Code agent for Playwright-style browser automation with Browser Use Cloud, Telegram, and a real browser on any box you own.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-20
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-04-26
License
MIT
Issues
20 open
Forks
59
Commits
421 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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0 0.0%