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Awesome Agent Harness

An awesome list of Agent Harness engineering resources, including GitHub projects, tools, benchmarks, and practical guides.

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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
2026-08-11
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-07
License
MIT
Issues
983 open
Forks
10,900
Commits
2,934 commits
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No 7-day history
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shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code

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

Updated
2026-07-28
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-21
License
MIT
Issues
63 open
Forks
11,844
Commits
163 commits
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headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-04
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
625 open
Forks
5,333
Commits
2,725 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+896 +1.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+24 +0.9%
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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2026-09-03
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8 list mentions
First commit
2023-06-20
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
722 open
Forks
7,576
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2,621 commits
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+395 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+4 +0.2%
HKUDS/nanobot

Ultra-lightweight, open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent framework in Python with WebUI, tools, memory, MCP, multi-agent workflows, automation, and chat apps

AI dev
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2026-08-19
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8 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-01
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MIT
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719 open
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8,328
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4,078 commits
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tirth8205/code-review-graph

Local-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI. Builds a persistent map of your codebase so AI coding tools read only what matters, with benchmarked context reductions on reviews and large-repo workflows.

AI dev
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2026-08-02
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4 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-26
License
MIT
Issues
100 open
Forks
2,765
Commits
911 commits
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No 7-day history
emcie-co/parlant

Build reliable customer-facing AI agents with Parlant: an interaction control harness optimized for controlled, consistent, and predictable LLM interactions.

AI dev
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2026-07-12
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4 list mentions
First commit
2024-02-15
License
Apache-2.0
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42 open
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1,552
Commits
5,485 commits
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confident-ai/deepeval

The LLM Evaluation Framework

Updated
2026-09-03
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6 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
559 open
Forks
1,892
Commits
10,221 commits
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+153 +0.9%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+59 +0.6%
microsoft/agent-framework

A framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET.

AI dev
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2026-08-03
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3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-28
License
MIT
Issues
661 open
Forks
2,105
Commits
2,707 commits
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No 7-day history
tensorzero/tensorzero

TensorZero is an open-source LLMOps platform that unifies an LLM gateway, observability, evaluation, optimization, and experimentation.

Archived AI dev
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2026-06-11
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5 list mentions
First commit
2024-07-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
Disabled
Forks
958
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4,100 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
2026-08-15
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-13
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
967 open
Forks
1,343
Commits
2,644 commits
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No 7-day history
2FastLabs/agent-squad

Flexible and powerful framework for managing multiple AI agents and handling complex conversations

AI dev
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2026-08-10
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2024-07-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
80 open
Forks
734
Commits
1,265 commits
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traceloop/openllmetry

Open-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-10
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4 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
669 open
Forks
1,065
Commits
1,415 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+8 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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
2026-09-03
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
707 open
Forks
1,089
Commits
2,608 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+104 +1.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+44 +1.7%
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
2026-08-01
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-02
License
MIT
Issues
157 open
Forks
893
Commits
2,343 commits
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IBM/mcp-context-forge

An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-08
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1,199 open
Forks
787
Commits
3,076 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
lemony-ai/cascadeflow

Cascading runtime for AI agents. Optimize cost, latency, quality, and policy decisions inside the agent loop.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-06
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-10-02
License
MIT
Issues
8 open
Forks
915
Commits
512 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
openlit/openlit

Open source platform for AI Engineering: OpenTelemetry-native LLM Observability, GPU Monitoring, Guardrails, Evaluations, Prompt Management, Vault, Playground. 🚀💻 Integrates with 50+ LLM Providers, VectorDBs, Agent Frameworks and GPUs.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-03
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2024-01-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
53 open
Forks
343
Commits
949 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
rasbt/mini-coding-agent

Minimal and readable coding agent harness implementation in Python to explain the core components of coding agents.

Updated
2026-04-07
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
3 open
Forks
191
Commits
15 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
SafeRL-Lab/cheetahclaws

CheetahClaws: A Fast and Easy-to-Use Agent Harness Infrastructure for Long-Horizon, Multi-Model, and Tool-Using AI Systems

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-31
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-04-01
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
23 open
Forks
268
Commits
784 commits
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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
capsulerun/capsule

Secure runtime to sandbox AI agent tasks. Run untrusted code in isolated WebAssembly environments.

Updated
2026-06-19
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-12-01
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
1 open
Forks
20
Commits
692 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
omnirexflora-labs/omnicoreagent

Open Python agent harness for production AI apps: tools, MCP, memory, workspace, telemetry, subagents, background tasks, and OmniServe APIs.

Updated
2026-05-29
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2025-03-19
License
MIT
Issues
2 open
Forks
57
Commits
664 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history