What changed in agent harnesses: 2026-11-01
Changes to the best-of-Agent-Harnesses list since the 2026-10-25 refresh. The list now ranks 187 agent harnesses, and the star counts below come from GitHub on 2026-11-01.
Biggest star gains
| Harness | Category | Stars | Gain |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek Harness | Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites) | 268k | +6,934 |
| claude-mem | Memory and state | 109k | +5,902 |
| superpowers | Coding harness configs and SDKs | 311k | +5,580 |
| Orkas | Multi-agent and orchestration | 7.2k | +4,985 |
| Anthropic Skills | Coding harness configs and SDKs | 186k | +2,551 |
| Hermes | Personal agent runtimes | 259k | +2,439 |
| opencode | Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites) | 224k | +2,321 |
| addyosmani/agent-skills | Coding harness configs and SDKs | 112k | +2,069 |
| Codex | Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites) | 133k | +1,826 |
| pi | Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites) | 119k | +1,566 |
Fastest growing
Projects that already had 500+ stars.
- Orkas: +229.8% (2.2k to 7.2k stars)
- Tianshu Harness: +7.9% (1.2k to 1.2k stars)
- OpenJarvis: +6.8% (12k to 12.9k stars)
- ClawBench: +5.9% (1.1k to 1.2k stars)
- claude-mem: +5.7% (103k to 109k stars)
Get this every week
Star and watch the repo (Watch, then Custom, then Releases) to get this digest each Sunday. Browse every harness on the site. Agents can read the same data with the whats_new tool of the MCP server: uvx agent-harnesses-mcp.
Every week since the digest started: changes.json.