VAEN
Package and import portable AI coding-agent Harnesses
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Hi HN, I built VAEN (an open source CLI) because I kept running into a boring problem with AI coding-agent workflows: the setup becomes useful, but then it is hard to move.A good, useful agentic harness consists of more than just instructions: skills, mcp servers and more. There should be a better way to share those than just .MD files, and that is why I created VAEN.What works: create a yaml, run the CLI commands as per the repo, and get a .agent file that you can share and extract. Think of how awesome it could be if anyone could use a very useful agentic harness, and share it with one CLI command.
HN · launched May 27, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 51%) · 1 view
Niche: ai agent development platforms · 598 launches, 22 in the last 7 days ▼ -29% · Explore this niche →
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- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes VAEN is a command-line interface tool to package and share AI configurations, prompts, and MCP server manifests into reproducible archives, which is standard CLI file manipulation easily written with an LLM.
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