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Amp

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harness software is what turns a language model into a working agent. Amp is one such harness: an agentic coding environment that connects a language model with tools, cloud sandboxes, and persistent conversations (’threads’), available in the terminal, on the web, and as macOS and iOS apps. Amp is operated by Amp Frontier Corporation, which spun out of Sourcegraph in late 2025. As of 20 September 2026.

Claude Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Claude Code is Anthropic’s agentic coding harness: it reads codebases, edits files, runs commands and connects development tools to turn the Claude language model into a working AI harness for developers. It is built by Anthropic and available in the terminal, in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, as a desktop app, and in the browser. As of 20 September 2026.

Cline

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cline is Cline Bot Inc.’s open-source AI harness for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal, a desktop app, and as an SDK: a coding agent that makes language models operational through tools, MCP servers and an approval system. As of 20 September 2026.

Codex

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harnesses are the software wrapped around a language model that makes it capable of work. Codex is OpenAI’s agentic coding harness: a command line, an IDE extension, a web and desktop interface, and an SDK that let GPT models read files, run commands, execute tests and change code – locally, in the cloud, or embedded in ChatGPT. As of 20 September 2026.

Cursor Agent CLI

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Cursor Agent CLI is the terminal coding agent from Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor editor. As an AI harness, it provides tools, context management, permissions and checkpoints around several underlying AI models, running interactively in the terminal, non-interactively in CI pipelines, and programmatically via an SDK. As of 20 September 2026.

Devin

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harness software is what turns a language model into a working agent. Devin is one such harness from Cognition: an AI software engineer available as a cloud-based agent with its own editor, terminal, and browser, and as a local Devin CLI for quick terminal tasks. As of 20 September 2026.

Droid (Factory)

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harness software is what turns a language model into a working agent. Droid is the coding agent harness from Factory (legally: The San Francisco AI Factory Inc.), connecting language models with tools, MCP servers, and a risk-based approval system, and running in the terminal, as a desktop app, and in the cloud. As of 20 September 2026.

Gemini CLI

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building on the basics of an AI Harness: Gemini CLI is Google’s open-source coding agent for the terminal, turning Gemini models into a working AI agent with tools for the file system, shell and web plus MCP extensibility — licensed under Apache-2.0, made by Google. As of 20 September 2026.

GitHub Copilot

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

GitHub Copilot is the AI assistant built by GitHub, a Microsoft company, for software development. As an AI harness, it supplies the tools, context management and execution environment that turn a language model into a working coding agent, through Copilot CLI, the coding agent, and agent mode in IDEs. As of 20 September 2026.

Google Antigravity

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building on the basics of an AI Harness: Antigravity CLI is the terminal interface of Google Antigravity, the company’s agent-first development platform for coding agents with selectable Gemini, Claude and GPT-OSS models. As of 20 September 2026.

Grok CLI

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Grok CLI is xAI’s terminal-based coding agent, officially called Grok Build, which acts as an AI harness connecting the Grok models with tools, context, permissions and subagents to form a working agent. The source code is available under the Apache-2.0 licence in the official xai-org/grok-build repository; Grok Build is used as a fullscreen TUI, headlessly in scripts or in editors via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). As of 20 September 2026.

herdr

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

herdr is an open-source runtime written in Rust by the vendor Herdr, Inc. on which several AI coding agents run at once, each in a real terminal session. Rather than replacing agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Pi, herdr, per its own documentation, “owns” their terminals: it keeps panes alive, automatically detects whether an agent is working, blocked or waiting, and provides a CLI plus a local socket API through which agents can control each other. As an AI harness, herdr covers mainly the orchestration building block – model access and tools stay with whichever agent is started. As of 20 September 2026.

Hermes Agent

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harnesses are the software layer that makes a language model capable of acting. Hermes Agent is Nous Research’s open-source AI harness: a self-improving AI agent with persistent memory that runs in the terminal, as a desktop app, in IDEs and through messaging platforms, and works with nearly any language model. As of 20 September 2026.

Kilo Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Kilo Code is Kilo Code Inc.’s open-source AI harness for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal: a coding agent that makes language models operational through MCP tools, skills and a permission system - with free choice among more than 500 models. As of 20 September 2026.

Kimi Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Kimi Code is Moonshot AI’s open-source coding agent: the Kimi Code CLI reads and edits code, runs shell commands and plans its own steps – an AI harness for developers in the terminal, in a local web UI, and in editors that support the Agent Client Protocol. The project is licensed under MIT and works with Kimi models as well as with other providers. As of 20 September 2026.

Kiro

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Kiro is Amazon Web Services’ agentic coding harness: the Kiro CLI reads codebases, writes code and runs commands in the terminal, alongside the Kiro IDE and web and mobile interfaces. As an AI harness, Kiro relies on spec-driven development, steering files, hooks and a declarative permission system; the software is proprietary and provided under the AWS Intellectual Property License. As of 20 September 2026.

Letta Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harnesses are the software layer that turns a language model into a working agent. Letta Code is Letta’s memory-first coding agent harness: instead of starting fresh every session, Letta Code agents carry persistent memory, learn skills from experience, and rewrite their own system prompt. As of 20 September 2026.

Maki

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Maki is an open-source coding agent for the terminal: it reads codebases via a tree-sitter-based index tool, edits files, runs commands in a sandbox, and connects to a wide range of model providers to turn any language model into a working AI harness in the terminal. Maki is developed by Tony Solomonik (GitHub: tontinton) as an MIT-licensed open-source project. As of 20 September 2026.

Mastra Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harnesses are the software layer that turns a language model into a working agent. Mastra Code is Mastra’s terminal coding agent harness: built on the open-source Mastra framework, with Observational Memory instead of classic context compaction, and access to a broad model selection through a central model router. As of 20 September 2026.

Muse Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Muse Code is Meta’s agentic coding harness for the terminal: it plans tasks, edits files, runs commands inside a sandbox and connects MCP servers to turn the Muse Spark models into a working AI harness for developers in the terminal. It is built by Meta. As of 20 September 2026.

OMP

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harnesses are the software wrapped around a language model that makes it able to work. OMP – short for oh-my-pi – is one such harness: an open-source coding agent by Can Bölük that, according to its own documentation, started as a fork of Pi and extends that lean core with numerous built-in features. Licensed under MIT and available for macOS, Linux and Windows, OMP connects over 60 model providers to a tool set with LSP, debugger and sub-agent support. As of 20 September 2026.

OpenCode

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenCode is Anomaly’s (formerly SST) open-source AI harness for the command line: a coding agent that makes language models operational through MCP tools, context management and a fine-grained permission system - freely combinable with more than 75 model providers. As of 20 September 2026.

Pi

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

AI harnesses are the software wrapped around a language model that makes it able to work. Pi is one such harness: an open-source, terminal-based coding agent from Earendil Inc. that, according to its own documentation, deliberately keeps a minimal core and lets everything else be added through extensions. Licensed under MIT and installable via npm or an install script, Pi connects over 15 model providers to a single terminal program. As of 20 September 2026.

Qoder CLI

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Qoder CLI is the terminal coding agent of the Qoder platform: it analyses codebases, edits files, runs commands and connects MCP servers to turn a language model into a working AI harness for developers in the terminal. According to its terms of service, the platform is operated by Bright Zenith Private Limited. As of 20 September 2026.

Qwen Code

Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Building on the basics of an AI Harness: Qwen Code is the open-source coding agent from Alibaba’s Qwen team for terminal, desktop, IDE and chat channels, working with Qwen, Claude, Gemini or any OpenAI-compatible models — licensed under Apache-2.0. As of 20 September 2026.