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
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.
Alibaba's Apache-2.0 terminal agent (originally a Gemini CLI fork) optimized for Qwen3-Coder models, distinguished by broad provider flexibility (OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini/Qwen APIs plus Ollama/vLLM local models), skills/subagents primitives, headless mode, and TypeScript/Python/Java SDKs.