$ find your agent harness

Anthropic's Claude-only agent harness in native desktop form, redesigned April 14, 2026 around a multi-session sidebar for parallel agents across repos, with integrated terminal/editor/diff viewer, cloud-hosted 'Routines' that run on Anthropic infrastructure while your machine is off, and the ecosystem that originated Agent Skills, subagents, hooks, plugins, and the headless Agent SDK (repo is issue tracker/docs; stars 136,750).

Anthropic's terminal-native agentic coding tool and the category-defining harness, distinguished by its layered extensibility model (CLAUDE.md memory, Agent Skills, subagents, hooks, plugins, MCP) plus permission modes, checkpoints, and optional sandboxing, available from CLI/IDE/desktop/web with an Agent SDK for building on top.

The Windsurf AI IDE's Cascade agent, post-Cognition-acquisition, was rebranded to Devin Desktop (June 2, 2026) with Cascade deprecated (available through July 1, 2026) in favor of the Rust-rewritten 'Devin Local' agent (30% more token-efficient, subagents), pairing local agentic editing (Fast Context codebase awareness, MCP, Memories, Workflows) with Devin cloud sessions for background work.

ByteDance's VS Code-based AI IDE, notable for aggressive pricing (free tier plus $3-$100/mo token-based tiers, restructured Feb 2026) and the SOLO mode (standalone app since March 31, 2026) that acts as an end-to-end 'context engineer' handling requirements, code, terminal, browser testing and deployment, with MCP (stdio/SSE/streamable HTTP) and custom agents — but persistent privacy/telemetry concerns.

Google's agent-first development platform (launched Nov 2025, Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026 moved it toward a production standalone desktop app), distinguished by its Agent Manager 'mission control' that orchestrates parallel agents across editor, terminal, and an embedded browser subagent, with agents producing reviewable Artifacts (plans, screenshots, browser recordings) and a persistent knowledge/learnings base; runs Gemini 3 alongside Claude and GPT-OSS models.

Enterprise-focused 'Droids' platform ($1.5B valuation after April 2026 Series C): autonomous agents that execute refactors, migrations and incident investigations end-to-end across CLI, desktop, SDK and remote 'Droid Computers' cloud workloads, with both local and cloud background agents on the $20 Pro tier and adoption at Nvidia, Adobe, Morgan Stanley and MongoDB; notably model-agnostic across frontier providers.

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.