$ find your agent harness

A curated, verified, cross-vendor directory of AI agent harnesses — the runtime scaffolding that turns a model into an agent.

◆ 74 harnesses profiled · 9-axis capability schema · last verified 2026-07-08

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Codex CLI · OpenAI

★ 96,138 · high

OpenAI's open-source (Apache-2.0) Rust-rewritten terminal coding agent, distinguished by kernel-level OS sandboxing (Apple Seatbelt on macOS, Landlock/seccomp on Linux), a 272K-1M token context with GPT-5.x Codex models, MCP support, and cloud handoff to Codex web tasks.

Vendor CLI agentsopen-sourcesubscription✓ mcp✓ local models⛨ os-sandbox