Harness IDE: Run your coding agents on any machine

Harness IDE: Run your coding agents on any machine(harness.mikelyons.org)

11 points by frenchie4111 81 days ago | 6 comments

cyanydeez 81 days ago |

i dont understand. ssh allows a plethora of options for a text based IO,so why are we having to touch anything on a remote system.

i get what vscode is doing, but your agent just deals in text.

just build an ssh protocol and pipe it into the shell of the users choice. run parallel ssh and share connections.

just seems bizarre how we are happy to install complex servers for something that is litterally just piping text.

linux is here from it, why change the known secured interface .

frenchie4111 80 days ago | |

While I agree it is predominantly text getting sent over the wire, it would be pretty complex to implement harness on just a text stream without the websocket abstraction (I thought about it for a while). If you want to just SSH and run an agent you can, but the point of harness is that it has better ergonomics than a bare terminal can provide

cyanydeez 80 days ago | | |

I understand; from a pratical standpoint, installing it on all servers I want to manage is just out of question.

Having a central AI with all it's trimmings is more reliable then custom servers everywhere.

frenchie4111 81 days ago |

When I built harness IDE one of the core goals was to stop having to leave my laptop open all the time while my agents finished the refactor.

Launching today is harness' SSH bootstrap mode. It works very similarly to VSCode's "connect to remote" feature. Select SSH connection you already have configured, it will connect, install the harness server in ~/.harness, and then the UI will connect over websocket.

Would love feedback if anyone gets a chance to try it out