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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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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

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2026-08-12
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2 list mentions
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2026-04-13
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MIT
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57 open
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744
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1,328 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
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2026-08-15
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5 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-13
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Apache-2.0
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967 open
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1,343
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2,644 commits
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traceloop/openllmetry

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

AI dev
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2026-08-10
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4 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
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669 open
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1,065
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1,415 commits
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+8 +0.1%
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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
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2026-09-03
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5 list mentions
First commit
2025-05-16
License
Apache-2.0
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707 open
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1,089
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2,608 commits
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+104 +1.5%
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+44 +1.7%
NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

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2026-08-01
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3 list mentions
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2023-04-25
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NOASSERTION
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195 open
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798
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3,761 commits
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open-multi-agent/open-multi-agent

TypeScript AI agent orchestration framework with dynamic workflows. Describe the goal, not the graph: a coordinator plans the task DAG at runtime and runs it on any LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, or local models).

AI dev
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2026-08-10
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5 list mentions
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2026-03-31
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MIT
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6 open
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2,416
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469 commits
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microsoft/TaskWeaver

The first "code-first" agent framework for seamlessly planning and executing data analytics tasks.

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2026-03-23
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3 list mentions
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2023-09-11
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MIT
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53 open
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783
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657 commits
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0 0.0%
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Helicone/helicone

🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓

AI dev
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2026-08-31
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7 list mentions
First commit
2022-11-29
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Apache-2.0
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157 open
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664
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5,484 commits
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+22 +0.4%
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+3 +0.1%
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
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5 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-15
License
MIT
Issues
178 open
Forks
618
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811 commits
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+8 +0.1%
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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
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2026-08-03
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3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-28
License
MIT
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203 open
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712
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5,525 commits
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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
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2026-08-01
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4 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-02
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MIT
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157 open
Forks
893
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2,343 commits
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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
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2026-07-02
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2 list mentions
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2025-09-10
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Apache-2.0
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81 open
Forks
496
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123 commits
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agentgateway/agentgateway

Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers

Updated
2026-07-31
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3 list mentions
First commit
2025-03-18
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Apache-2.0
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317 open
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695
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2,298 commits
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oomol-lab/open-connector

Open-source auth gateway connecting 1000+ SaaS providers to AI agents through SDK, CLI, MCP, HTTP, and OpenAPI.

AI dev
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2026-08-03
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-06-30
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
4 open
Forks
320
Commits
379 commits
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strukto-ai/mirage

The World's First Unified Virtual Filesystem For AI Agents

AI dev
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2026-08-02
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-05-06
License
Apache-2.0
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125 open
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247
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1,222 commits
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kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox

agent-sandbox enables easy management of isolated, stateful, singleton workloads, ideal for use cases like AI agent runtimes.

AI dev
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2026-07-30
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2 list mentions
First commit
2025-08-12
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Apache-2.0
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234 open
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428
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781 commits
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awslabs/agentcore-samples

Amazon Bedrock Agentcore accelerates AI agents into production with the scale, reliability, and security, critical to real-world deployment.

AI dev
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2026-08-01
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2 list mentions
First commit
2025-07-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
402 open
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1,259
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630 commits
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codejunkie99/agentic-stack

One brain, many harnesses. Portable .agent/ folder (memory + skills + protocols) that plugs into Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Hermes, or DIY Python — and keeps its knowledge when you switch.

AI dev
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2026-09-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-15
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
6 open
Forks
276
Commits
187 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+7 +0.3%
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0 0.0%
Infisical/agent-vault

A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, Hermes, custom agents + harnesses, and more.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-23
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-27
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NOASSERTION
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70 open
Forks
138
Commits
295 commits
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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.

Updated
2026-08-01
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5 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-23
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Apache-2.0
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596 open
Forks
445
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3,574 commits
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dirac-run/dirac

Coding Agent singularly focused efficiency and context curation. Reduces API costs by 50-80% vs other agent AND improves the code quality at the same time. Uses Hash Anchored edits, massively parallel operations, AST manipulation and many many other optimizations. https://dirac.run/

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-02
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1 list mention
First commit
2026-04-09
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
22 open
Forks
83
Commits
876 commits
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0 0.0%
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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
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1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-26
License
Apache-2.0
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7 open
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54
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211 commits
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0 0.0%
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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
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2026-09-02
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1 list mention
First commit
2026-02-12
License
Apache-2.0
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19 open
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110
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2,085 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
2026-07-28
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-20
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
0 open
Forks
164
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583 commits
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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
165
Commits
290 commits
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sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein

Deterministic orchestrator for CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, +40 more). No model in the coordination loop, so parallel runs in per-task git worktrees replay byte-identically. Signed lineage plus an opt-in HMAC audit chain a reviewer checks offline, without rerunning it. Cluster mode, air-gap deploy. https://bernstein.run

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-09
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-27
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
80 open
Forks
94
Commits
4,233 commits
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evilmartians/agent-prism

React components for visualizing traces from AI agents

Updated
2026-07-27
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1 list mention
First commit
2025-07-22
License
MIT
Issues
15 open
Forks
23
Commits
379 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%