$ 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

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 models⛨ optional

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 models⛨ container