$ 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

3 of 74 harnesses · sorted by stars

OpenClaw · OpenClaw community (created by Peter Steinberger)

382,000 · high

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.

General / computer-useopen-sourcebyok✓ mcp✓ skills✓ local modelsoptional

browser-use · Browser Use Inc. (YC-backed, SF)

103,000 · high

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.

General / computer-useopen-sourcebyok✓ mcp✓ local modelsoptional

Goose · Block → Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)

50,812 · high

Block's Rust-built, Apache-2.0 general engineering agent — now stewarded by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation — distinguished by the deepest MCP integration in the ecosystem (70+ extensions, can also act as an MCP server) and shareable YAML 'Recipes' that scaled agent workflows to 60% of Block.

OSS coding harnessesopen-sourcebyok✓ mcp✓ skills✓ local models
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