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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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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.

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2026-08-22
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8 list mentions
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2023-03-31
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MIT
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517 open
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2,220
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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
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2026-08-11
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10 list mentions
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2024-09-02
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Apache-2.0
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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.

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2026-08-01
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4 list mentions
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2025-04-02
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Apache-2.0
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596 open
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3,783
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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.

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2026-08-02
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4 list mentions
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2025-01-31
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MIT
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627 open
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1,407
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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]

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2026-08-31
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6 list mentions
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2024-04-02
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MIT
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91 open
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2,212
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2,182 commits
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+46 +0.2%
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alibaba/open-code-review

Fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible.

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2026-08-09
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7 list mentions
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2026-05-18
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Apache-2.0
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94 open
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1,388
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511 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.

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2026-08-01
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2026-02-23
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128 open
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1,396
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confident-ai/deepeval

The LLM Evaluation Framework

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2026-09-03
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2023-08-10
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Apache-2.0
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559 open
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1,892
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10,221 commits
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+153 +0.9%
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+59 +0.6%
browser-use/browser-harness

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

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2026-07-31
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3 list mentions
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2026-04-17
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MIT
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226 open
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1,551
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476 commits
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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.

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2026-08-23
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3 list mentions
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2026-05-21
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MIT
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30 open
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1,525
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512 commits
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ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui

AG-UI: the Agent-User Interaction Protocol. Bring Agents into Frontend Applications.

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2026-09-03
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1 list mention
First commit
2025-05-07
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MIT
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337 open
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1,413
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3,769 commits
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aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw

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

AI dev
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2026-08-19
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1 list mention
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2026-03-15
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MIT
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9 open
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1,665
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303 commits
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pipecat-ai/pipecat

Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI

AI dev
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2026-08-02
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3 list mentions
First commit
2023-12-26
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BSD-2-Clause
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209 open
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2,395
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11,173 commits
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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
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2026-08-12
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2 list mentions
First commit
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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revfactory/harness

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

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2026-07-24
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3 list mentions
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2026-03-26
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Apache-2.0
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25 open
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1,172
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45 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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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
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
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2026-08-01
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3 list mentions
First commit
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
First commit
2026-03-31
License
MIT
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6 open
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2,416
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469 commits
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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
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2 list mentions
First commit
2023-07-07
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MIT
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119 open
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411
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85 commits
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microsoft/TaskWeaver

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

Archived AI dev
Updated
2026-03-23
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3 list mentions
First commit
2023-09-11
License
MIT
Issues
53 open
Forks
783
Commits
657 commits
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0 0.0%
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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
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2026-09-02
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-02-22
License
MIT
Issues
25 open
Forks
69
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536 commits
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+37 +0.6%
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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
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
157 open
Forks
664
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5,484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+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
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%
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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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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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