🏆 Curated, ranked list of AI agent harnesses (100+) — plus an MCP server, llms.txt & JSON so agents can recommend them too. Rescored weekly.
Awesome list for AI agent harness engineering: tools, patterns, evals, memory, MCP, permissions, observability, and orchestration.

Self-hosted AI agent harness in a single Go binary — writes, sandbox-tests and repairs its own tools, and lets Claude Code, Codex and any MCP client build and share them.
A highly customizable agentic harness for arXiv-ready ML/AI review papers (and beyond). It drives agentic AI like Codex CLI and Claude Code through a gated LaTeX workflow with verified BibTeX citations.
An MCP server that lets LLM agents play Civilization VI.
Knowhere extracts, parses, and outputs structured chunks ready for AI Agents and RAG.
Self-hosted agent OS with skills, workflows, MCP, and second brain storage.
Give AI agents ambitious work without losing the plot. nac is an open-source harness for long-running tasks, using a central orchestrator, threads, and structured episodes to stay aligned with your intent.
Open-source agentic workspace enterprises can make their own. Connect the systems you already run — 100+ integrations, MCP, chat tools, apps, browser, local files — with shared memory. Any agent (Claude Code, Codex), any model, or BYOK. Set up in clicks, not months. Local-first: your data never leaves your machines.
Harness engineering applied to knowledge production: a self-evolving multi-agent newsroom that turns your documents into a cross-linked markdown wiki. A "reground" loop pulls published pages back in before they go stale — writer ≠ reviewer, local-first, a structured alternative to RAG.