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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
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2026-09-03
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-18
License
MIT
Issues
136 open
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37,176
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2,621 commits
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+2,826 +1.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+137 +5.5%
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
2026-08-11
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10 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-15
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NOASSERTION
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952 open
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23,990
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12,462 commits
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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
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2,934 commits
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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
Lists
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
Star growth, last 7 days
+395 +0.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+4 +0.2%
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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2026-09-03
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6 list mentions
First commit
2023-10-27
License
MIT
Issues
709 open
Forks
8,322
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2,818 commits
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+310 +0.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+23 +0.8%
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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2026-08-14
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7 list mentions
First commit
2024-08-23
License
Apache-2.0
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255 open
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6,002
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5,341 commits
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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
License
MIT
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719 open
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8,328
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4,078 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. 158 languages, sub-ms queries, 99% fewer tokens. Single static binary, zero dependencies.

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2026-09-02
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4 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-24
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MIT
Issues
542 open
Forks
3,410
Commits
2,711 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
wshobson/agents

Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-22
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2 list mentions
First commit
2025-07-24
License
MIT
Issues
12 open
Forks
4,113
Commits
530 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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2026-09-04
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7 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-29
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
630 open
Forks
2,708
Commits
2,229 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+1,220 +3.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+70 +3.2%
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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topoteretes/cognee

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-11
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
387 open
Forks
2,906
Commits
9,000 commits
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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
2026-08-01
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3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-11
License
MIT
Issues
84 open
Forks
4,681
Commits
4,578 commits
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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
2026-08-22
Lists
8 list mentions
First commit
2023-03-31
License
MIT
Issues
517 open
Forks
2,220
Commits
9,424 commits
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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
2026-08-11
Lists
10 list mentions
First commit
2024-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
184 open
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1,698
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6,688 commits
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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
2026-08-01
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
596 open
Forks
3,783
Commits
3,530 commits
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trycua/cua

Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation.

AI dev
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2026-08-02
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2025-01-31
License
MIT
Issues
627 open
Forks
1,407
Commits
4,123 commits
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SWE-agent/SWE-agent

SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-31
Lists
6 list mentions
First commit
2024-04-02
License
MIT
Issues
91 open
Forks
2,212
Commits
2,182 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+46 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
browser-use/browser-harness

Browser Harness | Self-healing harness that enables LLMs to complete any task.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-31
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-17
License
MIT
Issues
226 open
Forks
1,551
Commits
476 commits
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No 7-day history
microsoft/SkillOpt

SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen LLM agents through trajectory-driven edits, validation-gated updates, and deployable best_skill.md artifacts.

Updated
2026-08-23
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2026-05-21
License
MIT
Issues
30 open
Forks
1,525
Commits
512 commits
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No 7-day history
aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

Fully autonomous & self-evolving research from idea to paper. Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. 🦞

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-19
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-15
License
MIT
Issues
9 open
Forks
1,665
Commits
303 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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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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%
NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-01
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-04-25
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
195 open
Forks
798
Commits
3,761 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
microsoft/LLMLingua

[EMNLP'23, ACL'24] To speed up LLMs' inference and enhance LLM's perceive of key information, compress the prompt and KV-Cache, which achieves up to 20x compression with minimal performance loss.

Updated
2026-04-08
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2023-07-07
License
MIT
Issues
119 open
Forks
411
Commits
85 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
microsoft/TaskWeaver

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

Archived AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-11
License
MIT
Issues
53 open
Forks
783
Commits
657 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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
178 open
Forks
618
Commits
811 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+8 +0.1%
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
2026-08-03
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-28
License
MIT
Issues
203 open
Forks
712
Commits
5,525 commits
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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
2026-08-01
Lists
4 list mentions
First commit
2026-03-02
License
MIT
Issues
157 open
Forks
893
Commits
2,343 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
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
2026-07-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-09-10
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
81 open
Forks
496
Commits
123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
agentgateway/agentgateway

Next Generation Agentic Proxy for AI Agents and MCP servers

Updated
2026-07-31
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-03-18
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
317 open
Forks
695
Commits
2,298 commits
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strukto-ai/mirage

The World's First Unified Virtual Filesystem For AI Agents

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-02
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2026-05-06
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
125 open
Forks
247
Commits
1,222 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history