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agent harness engineering

An MIT-licensed educational repository that teaches building a nano Claude Code-like agent harness from scratch in Python.

75.0kPythonMITactive · last push 5d agoGitHub

Drop-in peers

Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.

bojieli/ai-agent-book

Choose for a comprehensive Apache-2.0 Chinese book on agent design with chapter code, instead of a minimal MIT-licensed tutorial.

《深入理解 AI Agent:设计原理与工程实践》(李博杰 著)开源主仓库:全书正文、编译版 PDF 与按章配套代码

40.8k
Python
Apache-2.0
active1d ago
walkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering

Choose when you prefer a TypeScript-based MIT tutorial from 0 to 1 over the Python-based seed.

Harness engineering beginner tutorial, from 0 to 1

13.7k
TypeScript
MIT
active2d ago
lintsinghua/claude-code-book

Choose when you need a much deeper Chinese-language, 15-chapter treatment culminating in building your own harness.

《御舆:解码 Agent Harness》42万字拆解 AI Agent 的Harness骨架与神经 —— Claude Code 架构深度剖析,15 章从对话循环到构建你自己的 Agent Harness。在线阅读网站:

4.1k
Python
none
active6d ago
Windy3f3f3f3f/how-claude-code-works

Choose for a source-level analysis of the real Claude Code if you want to understand existing internals rather than build a simplified version.

Deep dive into Claude Code internals — architecture, agent loop, context engineering, and more. / 深入解析 Claude Code 源码:架构、Agent 循环、上下文工程、工具系统等

3.5k
MIT
active6d ago

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

adongwanai/AgentGuide

Choose for a broader HTML guide covering LangGraph and RAG when you need survey-level content rather than building a harness from scratch.

https://adongwanai.github.io/AgentGuide | AI Agent开发指南 | LangGraph实战 | 高级RAG | 转行大模型 | 大模型面试 | 算法工程师 | 面试题库 | 强化学习|数据合成

8.7k
HTML
none
active19d ago
FareedKhan-dev/all-agentic-architectures

Choose for a runnable textbook/library of 35 architectures (MIT) when you need a multi-provider survey instead of a single minimal build.

35 production-grade agentic AI architectures (Reflexion, LATS, GraphRAG, MemGPT, Voyager, BrowserAgent, ...) — a Python library and runnable textbook with multi-provider LLM support and a 17-task benchmark leaderboard.

4.1k
Jupyter Notebook
MIT
active2mo ago
kyegomez/OpenMythos

Choose for a MIT-licensed first-principles reconstruction of Claude's architecture if you want a full reference implementation to study.

A theoretical reconstruction of the Claude Mythos architecture, built from first principles using the available research literature.

14.8k
Python
MIT
active3mo ago
microsoft/autogen

Choose for a production multi-agent framework with extensive features and ecosystem when you don't want to hand-roll a minimal harness.

A programming framework for agentic AI

60.6k
Python
CC-BY-4.0
active4mo ago

End-user tools

Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.

osaurus-ai/osaurus

Choose when you need a ready-to-use macOS offline harness with memory and identity as an end-user app, instead of code to build your own.

Own your AI. The native macOS harness for AI agents -- any model, persistent memory, autonomous execution, cryptographic identity. Built in Swift. Fully offline. Open source.

7.7k
Swift
MIT
active0d ago

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These projects were analysed and named learn-claude-code among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how learn-claude-code rates them is a separate judgement, made when learn-claude-code is analysed in its own right.

walkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering

calls learn-claude-codechoose for a project-based from-0-to-1 harness build focused on a Claude Code-like nano agent, directly comparable to the seed

Harness engineering beginner tutorial, from 0 to 1

13.7kTypeScriptactive
hahhforest/pi-textbook

calls learn-claude-codeChoose if you prefer Python and a minimal nano harness built from 0 to 1 instead of TypeScript checkpoints.

《动手学 Pi》:沿 15 个真实 checkpoint 从零构建 Pi-style Agent

1.2kTypeScriptactive
bojieli/ai-agent-book

calls learn-claude-codeStep-by-step build of a Claude Code-like harness, scoped to that one product.

《深入理解 AI Agent:设计原理与工程实践》(李博杰 著)开源主仓库:全书正文、编译版 PDF 与按章配套代码

40.8kPythonactive