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best-of-Agent-Harnesses MCP Server

Name: RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses
Rating: 4.1 (1 reviews)
Author: RyanAlberts

RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses

Score: 76.4 Rank #156 Agent Framework

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🏆 Ranked list of 167 AI agent harnesses, plus copy-paste templates (AGENTS.md, safe Claude Code settings, a minimal harness) and step-by-step playbooks. MCP server, llms.txt & JSON. Rescored weekly.

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Overview

RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses is a Python MCP server licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. 🏆 Ranked list of 167 AI agent harnesses, plus copy-paste templates (AGENTS.md, safe Claude Code settings, a minimal harness) and step-by-step playbooks. MCP server, llms.txt & JSON. Rescored weekly. Topics: agent-framework, agent-harness, agentic-ai, agents, ai-agents, ai-tools, awesome-list, best-of-list, claude-code, coding-agents, llm, llm-agents, llm-framework, llm-tools, mcp, ai-agent, ai-agent-framework, harness, harness-engineering, model-context-protocol.

Ranked #156 out of 24850 indexed tools.

In the top 1% of all indexed tools.

Actively maintained with commits in the last week.

Ecosystem

Python CC-BY-SA-4.0

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Score Breakdown

Stars 15% 959

959 stars → growing community

Freshness 25% 1d ago

Last commit 1d ago → actively maintained

Issue Health 25% 44%

15/34 issues closed → many open issues

Contributors 10% 6

6 contributors → small team

Dependents 25% 0

No dependents → no downstream usage

npm Downloads N/A

PyPI Downloads N/A

Forks 50

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License CC-BY-SA-4.0

Weights: Freshness 20% · Issue Health 20% · Dependents 22% · Stars 10% · Contributors 8% · How we score →

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Dependents medium impact

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Stars: 959
Forks: 50
Open Issues: 19
Closed Issues: 15
Contributors: 6
Dependents: —
Language: Python
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Last Commit: 1d ago

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From the README

<h1 align="center">
    Best of Agent Harnesses and Harness Techniques
    <br>
</h1>

<p align="center">
    <strong>🏆&nbsp; Curated list of AI agent harnesses, orchestration frameworks, and harness techniques for reliable agentic systems.</strong>
</p>

<p align="center">
    <a href="#contents" title="Project Count"></a>
    <a href="#for-agents" title="Agents can query this list — MCP server, llms.txt & JSON"></a>
    <a href="#contribution" title="Contributions welcome"></a>
    <a href="https://github.com/RyanAlberts/best-of-Agent-Harnesses/commits/main" title="Updates"></a>
</p>

<p align="center">
    🌐 <strong><a href="https://ryanalberts.github.io/best-of-Agent-Harnesses/">Browse the searchable site</a></strong> — one page per harness, filter by capability, autonomy &amp; recovery.
</p>

<p align="center">
    🧰 <strong><a href="#templates-and-playbooks">Templates and Playbooks</a></strong>: copy-paste setup files and step-by-step guides for the harnesses in this list.
</p

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