resources

Harness Engineering

Refs

https://github.com/ai-boost/awesome-harness-engineering

CLI’s / IDE’s for harness engineering

Codex

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/ - The post argues that with AI coding agents, the key skill shifts from writing code to designing the “harness”—the tools, structure, and feedback systems that let agents work reliably. Success comes from making tasks decomposable, environments well-specified, and failures fixable via better scaffolding rather than retries. The core insight is that engineers create value by shaping the system around the agent, enabling it to autonomously produce high-quality results at scale.

Claude Code

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-running-apps

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-harnesses-for-long-running-agents

Pi

Pi is a minimal terminal coding harness.

https://pi.dev/

https://github.com/earendil-works/pi

https://github.com/disler/pi-vs-claude-code/blob/main/COMPARISON.md

https://github.com/disler/pi-vs-claude-code/blob/main/PI_VS_OPEN_CODE.md

https://www.youtube.com/@indydevdan

oh-my-pi

A coding agent with the IDE wired in. Originally built on Mario Zechner’s wonderful Pi, omp adds everything you’re missing.

https://omp.sh/

https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi

Opencode

The open source AI coding agent

https://opencode.ai/

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode

Hermes Agent

The agent that grows with you. The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It’s the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.

https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent

Symphony

https://github.com/openai/symphony

Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents

OpenClaw (personal automation harness)

Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.

https://openclaw.ai/

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

Deepagents

Deep Agents is an open source agent harness — an opinionated agent that runs out of the box. Extend, override, or replace any piece.

https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/deepagents/overview

https://github.com/langchain-ai/deepagents

Resources

Walking Labs

There’s a hard truth most people learn the hard way: the strongest model in the world will still fail on real engineering tasks if you don’t build a proper environment around it.

https://github.com/walkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering

https://github.com/walkinglabs/awesome-harness-engineering

https://walkinglabs.github.io/learn-harness-engineering/en/