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Published as agent-harnesses-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

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Add project: Ouroboros

Repo: https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros

What the harness is: it wraps an existing coding agent rather than replacing it — the harness contribution is that an acceptance spec is pinned before the run and verified afterwards by the harness itself, and when a criterion defines a verify command or an expected-output assertion, those values are omitted from the worker's contract block with no flag to put them back, so the agent is asked for the outcome instead of being handed the assertio

Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · external user · 1 comment

MCP spec conformance: 5 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2025-11-25

Running @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test against this repo's MCP server launched via uvx agent-harnesses-mcp shows the server process crashing on startup with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mcp.server.fastmcp' (the published agent-harnesses-mcp package appears to be missing its mcp SDK runtime dependency, so it can never actually start and complete the MCP handshake). This was tested separately against spec revision 2025-11-25 (the older of the two revisions this suite detected the serve

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

MCP spec conformance: 10 requirement(s) violated (via @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test) — spec 2026-07-28

Running @hasmcp/mcp-spec-test against this repo's MCP server launched via uvx agent-harnesses-mcp shows the server process crashing on startup with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mcp.server.fastmcp' (the published agent-harnesses-mcp package appears to be missing its mcp SDK runtime dependency, so it can never actually start and complete the MCP handshake). Because the server exits immediately, every conformance check that depends on a live session — discovery, version negotiati

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

Add project: MCP Lens

Repo URL

https://github.com/labmimors/dsh-mcp-lens

Proposed category

Progressive disclosure harnesses

What is the harness?

MCP Lens is a DeepSeek Harness plugin that structures tool wiring for large MCP catalogs: the agent loop sees only mcp_search and mcp_call, exact input schemas are revealed for ranked matches, and the explicit server/tool identity is rechecked against allow/deny policy at call time.

Best “show me it in action” link

https://github.com/labmimors/ds

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · open · external user · 0 comments

Add project: mcp-guardian

  • Repo: https://github.com/S1LV3RJ1NX/mcp-guardian
  • What the harness is: A transparent MCP proxy whose harness contribution is the tool-exposure layer between client and servers — three meta-tools (search_tools, get_schema, execute_tool) implement the MCP spec's progressive tool discovery, cutting session-startup context from ~160,143 to ~456 tokens across 289 real tools (PostgreSQL MCP + GitHub MCP), with scope.yaml allow/blocklists and audit logging so blocked tools can't be discovere

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · open · external user · 0 comments

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