A curated, verified, cross-vendor directory of AI agent harnesses — the runtime scaffolding that turns a model into an agent.
◆ 75 harnesses profiled · 9-axis capability schema · last verified 2026-07-08
MIT-licensed self-hosted personal AI assistant ('the lobster way') that exploded to ~382k GitHub stars in months: any model, 20+ messaging channels (WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/iMessage...), SKILL.md skills via ClawHub, Docker-sandboxed sessions, cron jobs, voice, and a live Canvas.
MIT-licensed Python library (103k stars) that lets any LLM drive a real Chrome browser via DOM+vision instead of brittle selectors, now flanked by a desktop app and a usage-based cloud with stealth browsers, proxies, and a 24/7 'Browser Use Box' agent.
Open-source (Rust, BSD-3) Codex-native personal agent platform whose defining trait is a hardware-isolated microVM per agent — Firecracker on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows, not just a container — wrapped in zero-trust controls: 'Pipelock' keeps secrets and credentials out of an agent's reach and an egress-allowlist proxy governs outbound traffic. Agents are authored, validated and launched entirely from Codex in-repo ('everything is a skill'), build their own capability-gated WASM tools at runtime, persist memory in a shared knowledge graph, and can run always-on via cron-style schedules and heartbeats.
Anthropic's non-technical desktop agent built on the Claude Code harness (no terminal required) that works over local folders, browsers (Claude in Chrome), and full computer use, with MCP connectors, Agent Skills, and plugins — expanded to web and mobile in July 2026 with cloud-run sessions for Max subscribers.
Perplexity's Chromium-based agentic browser (free on all four platforms since April 2026) whose sidebar assistant reads pages and tabs and executes web tasks in the user's own browser, extended by 'Personal Computer' on Mac to local file editing, local computer use, and voice orchestration.