$ 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

2 of 74 harnesses · sorted by stars

OpenHands · All Hands AI / OpenHands

79,895 · high

Formerly OpenDevin, the leading open-source autonomous software-engineering platform: Docker-sandboxed agents that write code, run commands, browse, and open PRs, with a production agent SDK hitting 72% on SWE-bench Verified (Claude Sonnet 4.5) and its own broader OpenHands Index benchmark launched Jan 2026.

OSS coding harnessesopen-sourcefreemium✓ mcp✓ skills✓ local modelscontainer

Kilo Code · Kilo (Kilo-Org)

25,785 · high

The Cline/Roo merger-fork turned all-in-one agentic platform (~26k stars, 3M+ users): IDE extension, CLI, and hosted KiloClaw background agent reachable via Telegram/Discord/Slack, with 500+ models, mid-task model switching, an MCP marketplace, subagents (GA April 2026), and optional Kilo Pass credits from $19/mo.

OSS coding harnessesopen-sourcefreemium✓ mcp✓ local modelsoptional
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