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OpenHarness is a credible academic-lab entry into the crowded harness category.

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From HKUDS (the LightRAG lab), OpenHarness (Python, ~13,800 stars, v0.1.9) packages tool-use, skills, persistent memory, and multi-agent coordination, plus a personal assistant "ohmo" that talks to Slack and Feishu. It ships a 43-plus tool ecosystem with MCP support and unifies Claude, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, and Moonshot/Kimi behind one workflow with permission governance and context compression. The permission-governance and compression pieces are what separate a real harness from a wrapper.

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