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HarnessRouter/harnessrouter

HarnessRouter Community Edition: the self-hosted, Apache-2.0 edition of the unified interface for agent harnesses. Run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, PI, DSH, and more through one API, with sessions, streaming, files, cancellation, and failure handling. Implements the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP), an open standard. Your keys, your infrastructure.

80/100Transparent Radar Score
★ 666GitHub stars
9/6/2026Last code update
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What does HarnessRouter/harnessrouter do?

HarnessRouter Community Edition: the self-hosted, Apache-2.0 edition of the unified interface for agent harnesses. Run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, PI, DSH, and more through one API, with sessions, streaming, files, cancellation, and failure handling. Implements the Unified Harness Protocol (UHP), an open standard. Your keys, your infrastructure.

Adoption16/25
Maintenance20/20
Project quality20/20
Agent relevance20/20
Demand evidence4/10
Momentum0/5

Adoption uses stars and forks; maintenance uses code activity; quality checks license and metadata; demand uses high-engagement open Issues; momentum uses star growth.

EDITOR'S RADAR TAKE

Editorial take

HarnessRouter/harnessrouter stands out in developer tooling because its launch connects a focused product promise with measurable community attention. It is most useful to evaluate as a workflow tool—not as a replacement for human judgment.

WHO IT IS FOR

Best suited for

Developers, engineering teams and technical founders.

Main capabilities

  • HarnessRouter Community Edition: the self-hosted, Apache-2.
  • 0 edition of the unified interface for agent harnesses.
  • Run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, PI, DSH, and more through one API, with sessions, streaming, files, cancellation, and failure handling.

Practical use cases

HarnessRouter/harnessrouter may be useful for speeding up software delivery, testing, debugging or infrastructure workflows. The strongest fit depends on how well it integrates with a team’s existing tools, data and review process.

Open demand signals

These public GitHub Issues indicate requested capabilities or unresolved user needs. Read the original discussion before drawing product conclusions.

Potential advantages

  • Focused on developer tooling.
  • Shows ★ 666 GitHub stars and 67 forks.
  • Provides public source code and project history that can be independently verified.

Limits to consider

  • The listing is based on public launch information rather than a hands-on product review.
  • Features, pricing and availability may change; verify important details with the provider.
  • Compare it with 3 related Radar listings before choosing a workflow.

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OPEN-SOURCE SIGNAL

What the evidence suggests

HarnessRouter/harnessrouter ranks #78 among 167 tracked projects using public GitHub adoption, maintenance, quality, relevance, demand and momentum signals.

Automatically generated from public repository and Issue metadata. It is not a paid placement, endorsement, security audit or hands-on review.