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QoderAI/better-harness (1,756 stars, MIT) converts project and session evidence into loop-level insights and verifiable next steps from inside the agent you already use, with topics naming the discipline outright: harness-design, loop-engineering, harness-engineering. Pair it with lopopolo/harness-engineering (2,467 stars) as the field guide. Given DataSpace's 15.36-point harness spread, measurement of the loop is the highest-leverage category nobody's tooling was covering. I run a daily agent loop and I've been improving it by vibes.
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MIT-licensed TypeScript, pitch is "ChatGPT thinks, Codex works": ChatGPT as the planning brain, the Codex harness for execution. 74 forks against 680 stars, roughly 1:9, with continued pushes, which reads as adoption rather than star inflation. The pattern matters independentl...
440 stars, created August 11, covering 12 sections from model APIs through structured output, RAG, evals, agent loops, LoRA versus fine-tuning, security, LLMOps and serving, plus three case studies and a capstone (GitHub). The stance is that you write the agent loop, RAG and e...
86,600 stars. Six third-party plugin repos above 450 stars. Two of them created *before* the public repo existed. DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness (dsh) on August 13 under MIT. Every capability is a swappable plugin: models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, loops...
1jehuang/jcode reached 11,328 stars (+2,773 this week) as a Rust terminal agent harness at v0.9.1888-dev with 6,010 commits, MIT. The README publishes head-to-head numbers: 27.8MB RAM at one session and 260.8MB at ten, versus 833-3,237MB for competing harnesses, and 14.0ms tim...
HKUDS/Vibe-Trading (30,423 stars, MIT, v0.1.12 July 22) from Hong Kong University's data science lab pairs a reasoning loop of 50+ tools with 18+ historical data providers (Tushare, Yahoo Finance, OKX, CCXT) and nine market-specific backtesting engines covering US equities, A-...
santifer/career-ops sits at 62,867 stars (MIT, JavaScript, created April 4), running entirely inside a local coding CLI to scan job portals, score listings against an A–F rubric mapped to 1.0–5.0, tailor CVs, and track applications. Tens of thousands of people cloned it for th...
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