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

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.
Personal AI agent harness powered by Claude Code. Always-on access through Discord, Telegram, or a built-in web UI.
Claude Code rewritten in Go.. High-performance AI agent harness runtime in Go. MCP server, CLI tool orchestration, session management, Kiro integration. Single binary, zero dependencies.
Open-source AI agent harness in native Rust — GUI, CLI, headless, and webapp from one binary. Multi-provider, MCP, skills, plugins, agent teams.
Observability and enforcement for AI agent harnesses. Capture every run and runtime reliability with policy enforcement. 40 built-in policies, a local dashboard, no account required with a generous free cloud plan
SAW — SAFe Agentic Workflow AI Agent Harness for Multi-Agent Team Workflows Built on SAFe methodology (Scaled Agile Framework), adapted for AI agent teams (Now With AI-DLC!) Works for any team with repeatable processes: Software, Marketing, Research, Legal, Operations.
My personal directory of skills.
An MCP server that lets LLM agents play Civilization VI.
Self-hosted agent OS with skills, workflows, MCP, and second brain storage.
A human-governed AI coding workflow that distills ephemeral session context into persistent project memory—making work traceable, reviewable, and resumable.
🌊 The original agent meta-harness. Deploy intelligent multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features adaptive memory, self-learning intelligence, RAG integration, and native Claude Code / Codex / Hermes and many more Integrated