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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
- 01toolGitHubEasy 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 - 02repoGitHubbasically-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 - 03repoGitHubagent-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 - 04harnessGitHubeval-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 - 05repoGitHubOpen 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
- articleMedium / AsurionWhat 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.
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- articleSubstackCloudflare 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.
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