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mini-harness

An agent harness built for teaching: ~1,400 lines of Python with goal mode, permissions, skills, MCP and Claude's server-side compaction

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GITHUB · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 92 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent runtime environments · 745 launches, 498 in the last 7 days ▲ +916% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The tagline describes an agent harness of about 1,300 lines of Python with goal mode, permissions, skills, MCP, and compaction, all built on the public Claude API and MCP standard. A solo builder can vibe-code this quickly.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2984 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1347 of 2985 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 369 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Plain · hn · 2026-04-14 · 97 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • learnharness · github · 2026-10-16 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • calcifier · github · 2026-10-14 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.63
  • naiyue-test-agent · github · 2026-10-09 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • Zot · hn · 2026-05-29 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • jouet · github · 2026-10-30 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • teachable-code · github · 2026-11-03 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • skills · github · 2026-10-14 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.60

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