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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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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
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2026-08-11
Lists
10 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-15
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
952 open
Forks
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
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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
Updated
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%
BerriAI/litellm

The fastest, litest AI Gateway. Rust core with Python SDK. Call 100+ LLM APIs in OpenAI (or native) format with cost tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and logging [Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, VertexAI, vLLM, Nvidia NIM]

AI dev
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2026-08-11
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9 list mentions
First commit
2023-07-27
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NOASSERTION
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4,859 open
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10,477
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42,623 commits
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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
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2026-07-07
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2 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-14
License
MIT
Issues
5 open
Forks
6,776
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2,152 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
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+1,220 +3.6%
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+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
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2026-06-18
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3 list mentions
First commit
2026-01-07
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Apache-2.0
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309 open
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2,361
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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
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5 list mentions
First commit
2023-08-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
387 open
Forks
2,906
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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
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-04-11
License
MIT
Issues
84 open
Forks
4,681
Commits
4,578 commits
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vercel/ai

The AI Toolkit for TypeScript. From the creators of Next.js, the AI SDK is a free open-source library for building AI-powered applications and agents

AI dev
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2026-09-03
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5 list mentions
First commit
2023-05-23
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
1,546 open
Forks
5,067
Commits
8,324 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+101 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+103 +1.3%
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
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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
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10 list mentions
First commit
2024-09-02
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
184 open
Forks
1,698
Commits
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
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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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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
trycua/cua

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

AI dev
Updated
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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ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-09-03
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1 list mention
First commit
2025-05-07
License
MIT
Issues
337 open
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1,413
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3,769 commits
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0 0.0%
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0 0.0%
pipecat-ai/pipecat

Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-02
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2023-12-26
License
BSD-2-Clause
Issues
209 open
Forks
2,395
Commits
11,173 commits
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No 7-day history
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
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
Helicone/helicone

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-31
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2022-11-29
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
157 open
Forks
664
Commits
5,484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+22 +0.4%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+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%
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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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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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
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
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
kubernetes-sigs/agent-sandbox

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-30
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-08-12
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
234 open
Forks
428
Commits
781 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
awslabs/agentcore-samples

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

AI dev
Updated
2026-08-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2025-07-16
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
402 open
Forks
1,259
Commits
630 commits
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No 7-day history
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No 7-day history
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
Lists
5 list mentions
First commit
2026-04-23
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
596 open
Forks
445
Commits
3,574 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-03-26
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
7 open
Forks
54
Commits
211 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
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
2026-09-02
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2026-02-12
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
19 open
Forks
110
Commits
2,085 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
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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No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
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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No 7-day history