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Issue 45/October 20, 2026/5 tools · 2 headlines

Self-hosted isolation layers and durable runtimes under the agent loop

Power users are wiring cloneable microVM sandboxes, WASM guest OSes, approval-gated TypeScript runtimes, temporal memory graphs, and plan-native harnesses straight into their coding loops. The through-line is infrastructure you own and fork, not another chat IDE.

01 — Power tools

The stack

  1. 01toolGitHub
    Easy Agent↗

    ConardLi

    Readable layered terminal coding agent with permission rules, OS sandboxing, MCP, skills, sub-agents and multi-provider support.

    Use caseUse it to run a production-style coding loop next to your repo with fail-closed sandbox and rewindable checkpoints.

    terminalcoding-agentpermissionsmcp
  2. 02repoGitHub
    basically-ai-harness↗

    TejasQ

    Minimal TypeScript agent harness built branch-by-branch for a harness-engineering talk, covering eval versus agent loops.

    Use caseUse it to clone and step through a from-scratch harness so you can fork the control flow patterns into your own loop.

    typescriptharnesseducationalfrom-scratch
  3. 03repoGitHub
    agent-sdk-go↗

    agenticenv

    Durable execution framework for Go AI agents that keeps state, tool calls and loops resilient across crashes via durable-go or Temporal.

    Use caseUse it to write crash-resilient Go agents that resume mid-tool-call without rebuilding session context.

    godurablesdktemporal
  4. 04harnessGitHub
    eval-harness (nano-step)↗

    nano-step

    Typed evaluation for skills and agents with capability, regression and product checks plus provider-neutral evidence grading.

    Use caseUse it to grade OpenCode skills or external runner evidence in CI without collapsing results into a single score.

    evaltypedciskills
  5. 05repoGitHub
    Open Multi-Agent core examples↗

    open-multi-agent

    Runnable starter teams, PR-review and security agents that demonstrate OMA scheduler, checkpoints and offline dashboard.

    Use caseUse it to scaffold a no-key local demo then swap in your providers for production multi-agent pipelines.

    examplestypescriptmulti-agentscaffold

02 — In the wild

Articles and releases

  1. articleMedium / Asurion
    What we’ve learned 3 years into Harness Engineering↗

    Bassim Eledath

    Asurion traces three years of agentic frameworks into AURA, a single contributor-plugin harness now powering chat and voice. The piece argues the next step is turning the harness into an event-driven agent runtime plus a platform so product teams can keep agents healthy without touching framework code.

    harness-engineeringauraenterpriseessay

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  2. articleSubstack
    Cloudflare Just Made AI Agent Sandboxes 6× Faster↗

    Tech Scoop

    Cloudflare’s new Containers architecture with durable_object scheduling, filesystem snapshots and Sandbox SDK 1.0 drops median agent sandbox startup from roughly 4 s to 648 ms. Developers now control image, compute, network and snapshot lifecycle directly from Durable Object code.

    cloudflaresandboxcontainersrelease

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