$ 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

5 of 74 harnesses · sorted by stars

CrewAI · CrewAI Inc.

55,117 · high

MIT-licensed Python framework (~55k stars) for role-based multi-agent 'Crews' plus event-driven 'Flows', with unified memory, hierarchical delegation, and a commercial AMP cloud platform (free tier, Pro from ~$25/mo, enterprise) that CrewAI says powered ~2B agentic executions in the year to January 2026.

Runtimes & SDKsopen-sourcefreemium✓ mcp✓ local modelsoptional

OpenAI Agents SDK · OpenAI

27,727 · high

OpenAI's agent harness whose April 15, 2026 overhaul added a 'model-native harness' with Codex-like filesystem/shell tools, built-in compaction and memory, snapshot/rehydrate durable execution, handoffs, guardrails, tracing, and native sandbox execution via bring-your-own or built-in providers (E2B, Modal, Daytona, Cloudflare, Vercel, Blaxel, Runloop); non-OpenAI models supported via LiteLLM and Chat Completions-compatible endpoints.

Runtimes & SDKsopen-sourceusage-based✓ mcp✓ local modelsoptional

Letta · Letta (formerly MemGPT, UC Berkeley spinout)

23,701 · high

Apache-2.0 platform for stateful agents descended from MemGPT, distinguished by tiered self-editing memory persisted in a database (core memory in-context, archival out-of-context) plus 2026 research on git-based 'Context Repositories' and memory-native RL; in 2026 the company is consolidating around Letta Code, an open, model-agnostic memory-first coding agent harness (LettaBot archived May 2026 and folded in as Channels).

Runtimes & SDKsopen-sourcefreemium✓ mcp✓ local modelsoptional

The AutoGen + Semantic Kernel convergence (1.0 GA April 2026) for .NET and Python, whose BUILD 2026 'Agent Harness' made production patterns first-class — shell/filesystem access, human-in-the-loop approvals, context compaction, todo tracking, plan/execute modes, AgentSkillsProvider skill discovery, and BackgroundAgentsProvider subagents — with hosted execution via Microsoft Foundry.

Runtimes & SDKsopen-sourcebyok✓ mcp✓ skills✓ local modelsoptional

Claude Agent SDK · Anthropic

7,560 · high

Anthropic's production agent library exposing the same harness that powers Claude Code (tool loop, file/bash/web tools, subagents, hooks, skills, MCP, permission checkpoints) in Python and TypeScript; the MIT-licensed SDK wraps the bundled Claude Code runtime and, as of 2026, underpins Anthropic Managed Agents with separate metered billing from June 15, 2026.

Runtimes & SDKsopen-sourceusage-based✓ mcp✓ skillsoptional
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