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      "vendor": "Aider AI LLC",
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      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Terminal pair-programming tool that edits files in a local git repository through text edit formats rather than tool calls, builds a repo map with tree-sitter, and commits each change.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aider.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "aider-chat"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account. Model keys come from environment variables, a `.env` file or `--api-key` flags, and go straight to the provider through LiteLLM.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy. You pay your model provider, or nothing with a local model.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-01).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
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        "agent.harness"
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        "open-source",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "python",
        "pre-1.0"
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      "graded": true,
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        "score": 46.9,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 949,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 25,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 13,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 54,
          "schema": 56,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 63
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          "tasks"
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          "2026-09-04. CVE-2026-85674 (7.8, filed by VulnCheck). Aider loads `.aider.conf.yml` from the root of the repository it starts in, and a crafted file's `test-cmd` runs at startup and `lint-cmd` on the first edit, through a shell, with no confirmation, model call or API key. It affects 0.86.2 and earlier, no release fixes it, and the report (#5254) is open. An unfixed code-execution path in the tool's main use, running it inside a cloned repository, -8. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85674"
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        "bestFor": "A person pair-programming in a terminal who wants git-tracked edits and a small context footprint, with any model.",
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          "Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log",
          "A git commit per edit by default, with `/undo`",
          "Asks before running shell commands the model suggests",
          "A repo map sized by `--map-tokens` keeps its own context cost small",
          "Any model through LiteLLM, local ones included, with no account"
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          "No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026",
          "CVE-2026-85674 lets a repository's `.aider.conf.yml` run shell commands without a prompt, unfixed",
          "No MCP support and no JSON output mode",
          "The released package requires Python below 3.13",
          "About 1,300 open issues and 512 open pull requests without visible triage"
        ],
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          "Read `.aider.conf.yml` in any cloned repository before starting aider. Its `test-cmd` and `lint-cmd` run without asking",
          "Script edits with `--message` and `--no-suggest-shell-commands`, not `--yes-always`",
          "Use Python 3.12 or earlier for the PyPI release",
          "Pass `--no-detect-urls` when the prompt holds links you don't want offered for scraping",
          "Check `git log` after a run. Each edit is its own commit"
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          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 54,
          "schema": 56,
          "security": 59,
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      "connect": {
        "install": "python -m pip install aider-chat   # Python 3.10 to 3.12",
        "headless": {
          "command": "aider --message \"$TASK\" --no-suggest-shell-commands --no-analytics --no-detect-urls path/to/file.py",
          "env": {
            "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
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        "privacy": "https://aider.chat/docs/legal/privacy.html",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html",
        "securityTxt": "none",
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        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy names Aider AI LLC and covers the website and the tool's opt-in analytics.",
          "We found no terms of service and no security.txt in the site's source, which lives in the repository under aider/website."
        ],
        "score": 55
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.json",
      "live": {
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            "name": "Aider-AI/aider",
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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          "state": "none",
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          "domain": "aider.chat",
          "registered": "2023-05-15",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/aider.chat",
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            "url": "https://aider.chat/docs/legal/privacy.html",
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      "slug": "harnessrouter",
      "name": "HarnessRouter",
      "vendor": "HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://harnessrouter.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "HarnessRouter runs complete agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code and Hermes behind one HTTP API, the Unified Harness Protocol, with sessions, streaming, files and artifacts. It comes as a hosted cloud or a self-hosted Community Edition.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "harnessrouter/harnessrouter"
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      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A Workspace API key (sk-hr-) as a Bearer token from the product's server, never from a browser (https://harnessrouter.ai/docs/authentication). Keys are created in the console after a browser sign-up, can be held to one workspace or reach the whole organisation, and are revoked at once by DELETE /v1/orgs/{org}/keys/{id}. No OAuth or per-endpoint scopes found. The self-hosted Community Edition signs into its console with a username and password and needs no HarnessRouter key.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan at $0 with no card, for the console and configuring agents. Running tasks draws on top-up credit ($10 minimum, 5.5 per cent fee) or a plan, Developer $20, Production $200 or Scale $1,000 a month, each fully included as usage. Agent work is $0.020 an active minute on top-ups and $0.014 to $0.006 on plans, and model calls are at the provider's price or on your own keys (https://harnessrouter.ai/pricing.md, checked 2026-10-17). Self-serve payment is card-only.",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the pricing page or the UHP schema (checked 2026-10-17). Payment is by card for top-ups and plans.",
        "endpoints": []
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      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://harnessrouter.ai/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://harnessrouter.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter/blob/main/protocol/schema/uhp-2026-10-04.openapi.yaml",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "self-hosted",
        "open-source",
        "apache-2.0",
        "api-key",
        "usage",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker",
        "python",
        "streaming",
        "cloud-agent",
        "agent-skill"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-16",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 53.2,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 796,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 24,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 72
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-17"
        },
        "negative": -5,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-06, -5. Privately reported flaws fixed in public commits #416 to #429 on 6 and 7 October 2026. The gateway source names them GHSA-p6cq-54cg-8mpv (a bearer token that failed verification still reached internal routes, so anyone could rewrite any organisation's connections and routing; \"found live on the hosted service and closed there the same way, 2026-10-06\"), GHSA-qrr8-m92f-7vfp (identity headers trusted by default), GHSA-mw9j-m5jf-5r56 and GHSA-c5g7-c47h-f6c3 (server-side request forgery through git imports and upload addresses) and GHSA-rmh9-whjx-gfrc (secrets with quotes or non-ASCII characters left unredacted). A workspace key could also read, change and delete another workspace's harnesses, sessions and responses and mint an organisation-wide key (\"reported privately three times\"). All were fixed within days and described in the source. The advisory pages couldn't be read (GitHub answered 403), so whether they're published is unchecked, and the deduction is lower than an open cross-tenant flaw would get. Source https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter/blob/main/gateway/app.py"
        ],
        "verdict": "A product's server sends a task to a named harness and gets streamed progress, sessions and files back, under a published OpenAPI contract with idempotency keys and a closed set of error codes. No status page or request rate limit was found, running a task needs card-funded credit, and access-control flaws were fixed on 6 and 7 October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID.",
        "strengths": [
          "UHP is published as OpenAPI 3.1 and JSON Schema 2020-12 under Apache-2.0, with a 98-check conformance suite in the repository",
          "Every task call takes an Idempotency-Key, and the error envelope has a closed code set, with a retry rule per code",
          "Per-turn budgets (400 steps, 7,200 seconds and $10 by default) cap what one task can spend",
          "26 harnesses listed as available, including Codex, Claude Code, Hermes, OpenCode, goose and Qoder, behind one task contract",
          "202 tagged releases between 15 August and 16 October 2026, and the self-hosted Community Edition runs with no HarnessRouter account"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No status page found (status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and /status answers 404), and the terms give no service level without a signed order form",
          "No request rate limit is published. Only concurrency (one task at a time on Free) and task length (30 minutes, or 1 hour after a top-up) are stated",
          "Running a task on the hosted service draws on credit, and top-ups and plans are card-only, so an agent can't start without a person",
          "Privately reported access-control, SSRF and redaction flaws were fixed on 6 and 7 October 2026, one of them found live on the hosted service",
          "The hosted API serves UHP 2026-09-28 while the spec site's current version is 2026-10-04, and the conformance page counts 76 checks against 98 in the suite"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Name the harness yourself. The task call is POST /{harness_id}/v1/responses, and HarnessRouter doesn't choose a harness for you",
          "Send a fresh Idempotency-Key with each new task, reuse it only for a retry of the same request, and recover from the session if a stream drops",
          "Call cancel to stop work. Closing the SSE connection leaves the agent running and billing",
          "Keep the Workspace API key on the server. The docs forbid calling the API from a browser with it",
          "Check each tool's enforcement in GET /v1/bases. On bases marked instruction, disabled_tools is a request to the model, not a block"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 58,
          "transparency": 78
        },
        "provenanceScore": 65
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      "connect": {
        "install": "docker run -d --name harnessrouter -p 127.0.0.1:3000:3000 -v harnessrouter:/data harnessrouter/harnessrouter",
        "http": "curl -N https://api.harnessrouter.ai/$HARNESS_ID/v1/responses -H \"Authorization: Bearer $HR_API_KEY\" -H \"Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"input\": \"Review this uploaded agreement and return a checklist.\", \"stream\": true}'"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/harnessrouter"
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          "item": "Developer plan, all $20 as usage",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "agent work $0.014 an active minute, one workspace"
        },
        {
          "item": "Production plan, all $200 as usage",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "agent work $0.010 an active minute, five workspaces"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scale plan, all $1,000 as usage",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 1000,
          "note": "agent work $0.006 an active minute, tracing included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Agent work on top-up credit, per hour of active work",
          "unit": "session-hour",
          "usd": 1.2,
          "note": "$0.020 an active minute, billed by the second. Waiting on the model, the user or a queue isn't billed"
        },
        {
          "item": "Tracing add-on",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 50,
          "note": "beta, included with Scale"
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        "legalEntity": "Lumentree Corporation",
        "domain": "harnessrouter.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-06-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The terms name Lumentree Corporation, a California corporation at 201 Spear Street, San Francisco, as the contracting party. The YC launch lists the company as Epsilla (Summer 2023), and the maintainer commits from an epsilla.com address.",
          "harnessrouter.ai was registered on 18 June 2026 and unifiedharnessprotocol.org on 12 August 2026 (registry RDAP, checked 2026-10-17).",
          "No status page. status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and harnessrouter.ai/status answers 404.",
          "harnessrouter.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. A disclosure policy is at /legal/security, and SECURITY.md in the repository names GitHub private reporting and contact@harnessrouter.ai.",
          "The changelog is the UHP specification's. HarnessRouter itself has 202 tags in the repository and no product changelog page was found.",
          "The terms forbid scraping or crawling except as allowed by the documentation, an API endpoint, robots.txt or written permission. robots.txt on harnessrouter.ai and unifiedharnessprotocol.org allows all paths."
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        "score": 65
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.json",
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          "samples30d": 24,
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        "b": "Agent harness",
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      {
        "a": "Aider AI LLC",
        "b": "HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation)",
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        "a": "no (local only)",
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "no",
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        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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      },
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        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
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  "markdown": "HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Aider's 46.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Aider leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Aider: grade D, 46.9/100, rank #949 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aider.json\n- HarnessRouter: grade D, 53.2/100, rank #796 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 331 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Aider (D)\n\nGood for: A person pair-programming in a terminal who wants git-tracked edits and a small context footprint, with any model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 54 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026\n\n### HarnessRouter (D)\n\nGood for: A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 56\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 13\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 63\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.5 against 1.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No status page found (status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and /status answers 404), and the terms give no service level without a signed order form\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Aider | HarnessRouter | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 54 | 35 | Aider +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 83 | HarnessRouter +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 73 | HarnessRouter +8 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 58 | Aider +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 25 | Aider +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 13 | 72 | HarnessRouter +59 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 72 | HarnessRouter +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.9 · D** | **53.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Aider | HarnessRouter |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Aider AI LLC | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` |\n| Transports |  | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides. |\n| Tools exposed | none | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-02-12 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given |  |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | 49k stars | 3.1k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Aider.** Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log. No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026.\n\n**HarnessRouter.** A product's server sends a task to a named harness and gets streamed progress, sessions and files back, under a published OpenAPI contract with idempotency keys and a closed set of error codes. No status page or request rate limit was found, running a task needs card-funded credit, and access-control flaws were fixed on 6 and 7 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Aider\n\n1. Read `.aider.conf.yml` in any cloned repository before starting aider. Its `test-cmd` and `lint-cmd` run without asking\n2. Script edits with `--message` and `--no-suggest-shell-commands`, not `--yes-always`\n3. Use Python 3.12 or earlier for the PyPI release\n4. Pass `--no-detect-urls` when the prompt holds links you don't want offered for scraping\n5. Check `git log` after a run. Each edit is its own commit\n\n### HarnessRouter\n\n1. Name the harness yourself. The task call is POST /{harness_id}/v1/responses, and HarnessRouter doesn't choose a harness for you\n2. Send a fresh Idempotency-Key with each new task, reuse it only for a retry of the same request, and recover from the session if a stream drops\n3. Call cancel to stop work. Closing the SSE connection leaves the agent running and billing\n4. Keep the Workspace API key on the server. The docs forbid calling the API from a browser with it\n5. Check each tool's enforcement in GET /v1/bases. On bases marked instruction, disabled_tools is a request to the model, not a block\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Aider or HarnessRouter?\n\nHarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) on agent readiness against Aider's 46.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Aider leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Are Aider and HarnessRouter open source?\n\nYes. Aider is open source (Apache-2.0). HarnessRouter is open source (Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"aider\", \"b\": \"harnessrouter\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare aider harnessrouter`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aider.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Aider or HarnessRouter\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Aider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-aider.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Aider vs Amp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-amp.md)\n- [Aider vs Antigravity CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-antigravity-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-claude-code.md)\n- [Aider vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cline.md)\n- [Aider vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-devin.md)\n- [Aider vs Droid CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-droid-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs Pi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-earendil-pi.md)\n- [Aider vs Gemini CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-gemini-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs GitHub Copilot CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-github-copilot-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs goose](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-goose.md)\n- [Aider vs Kilo Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-kilo-code-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs Kiro CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-kiro-cli.md)\n- [Aider vs Muse Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-muse-code.md)\n- [Aider vs OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-openai-codex.md)\n- [Aider vs OpenCode](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-opencode.md)\n- [Aider vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Aider vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Aider vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [Aider vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n- [Amp vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Claude Code vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Cline vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Cursor CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Devin vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Droid CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Pi vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Gemini CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [GitHub Copilot CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [goose vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Kilo Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kilo-code-cli.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Kiro CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kiro-cli.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Muse Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-muse-code.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openai-codex.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenCode](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-opencode.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openhands.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n- [CLI Manager vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Harness vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Parallax](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.md)\n",
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