DeepSeek Harness gained over 60,000 GitHub stars within hours of its August 2026 launch, establishing itself as the first fully modular open-source agent runtime where literally every component is a swappable plugin. Built on the Cordis framework—a programming paradigm for spatiotemporal composability—dsh decomposes the entire agent stack into independently replaceable pieces: model adapters for DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Azure, and Google Gemini; tool registries covering bash execution, file system operations, web search, subagent delegation, and todo management; plus session stores, sandboxes, approval policies, orchestration loops, and the user interface itself. Four operating modes serve different workflows: Standard provides the full toolset, Code mode uses model-generated code to compose multi-round tool calls, Minimal strips down to a shell and editor for benchmarking, and Creator mode lets developers inspect the running runtime and test Cordis plugins in memory. The kernel handles plugin mounting, unmounting, and dependency resolution while typed events and services coordinate between components. Profiles and bundles allow the same codebase to produce entirely different products—a terminal coding agent, a browser-based workspace, a headless automation service, or an ACP/JSON-RPC endpoint—by swapping YAML configuration layers. Session history is stored as an append-only event stream for full trajectory replay, and project-level hooks on agent lifecycle events enable fine-grained behavioral customization. MCP client integration connects to external tool servers, while Agent Client Protocol enables programmatic orchestration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Open-sourced by the Databricks AI team under Apache 2.0 and reaching over 8,500 GitHub stars within two months of launch, Omnigent introduces the meta-harness concept: a common orchestration layer that sits above existing AI coding agents and makes them interoperable parts of a governed, collaborative system. The platform wraps Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi, and any custom agent defined in a simple YAML configuration file into sandboxed sessions with a uniform API, then exposes each session through the terminal, a web UI, a native desktop application, mobile interfaces, and a REST API. Built-in multi-agent workflows include Polly, a coding orchestrator that delegates tasks to parallel sub-agents in separate git worktrees and routes each diff to a reviewer from a different vendor, and Deep Research, which plans sub-queries, searches the live web through MCP servers, reads full pages, and cross-checks claims across independent sources. Contextual security policies go beyond static allow/deny rules by maintaining per-session state to enforce spend caps, model routing, approval gates for destructive actions, PII blocking, and repository-scoped write restrictions across server-wide, per-agent, and per-session levels. The OS sandbox restricts filesystem and network access while intercepting egress requests to inject credentials only on approved calls. Cloud sandbox providers including Modal, Daytona, E2B, CoreWeave, Kubernetes, and Databricks launch disposable execution environments per session. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.