{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cli-manager", "name": "CLI Manager", "vendor": "solhun (Jeong Kyeonghun)", "vendorUrl": "https://climanager.solhun.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "CLI Manager is an open-source macOS desktop app that runs Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and shells side by side, with Git worktrees as workspaces. An opt-in local REST and MCP API lets another agent open and drive sessions.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cli-manager.json", "repo": "https://github.com/woorichicken/CLI_manager", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "No account. The AI Control API is off until switched on in Settings \u003e Agents, binds to 127.0.0.1 (default port 47821) and needs a bearer token generated by the app, which can be regenerated. The token is also written to `~/.climanager/control-api.json` (mode 600) while the app runs.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT with nothing to buy since v1.5.0 (8 April 2026). Versions 1.0 to 1.4 had a paid Pro licence, which the commit of 8 April 2026 removed. The owner pays for each agent CLI's own plan or API key.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, the README or the website (checked 2026-10-14). The app has no paid tier.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 12, "popularity": { "githubStars": 15, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://climanager.solhun.com/docs/ai-control-api", "llmsTxt": "https://climanager.solhun.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "mit", "macos", "typescript", "mcp", "llms-txt", "desktop-app" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-13", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.8, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 341, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 60, "reliability": 68, "schema": 87, "security": 58, "transparency": 54 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can open visible terminal sessions, type into them, wait and read the screen through 12 typed MCP tools or a documented REST API, and the user can take any session back. The API reaches every open session once enabled, the app runs only on macOS, and none of the last 35 CI runs on the main branch passed.", "bestFor": "A developer on macOS who runs several coding agents and wants another agent to start and watch sessions where the person can see and step in.", "strengths": [ "12 MCP tools with typed JSON Schema inputs and server instructions that say when not to focus or close a session", "Off by default, loopback only, bearer token, and Host and Origin checks against DNS rebinding and web pages", "Text is refused while a question or permission prompt is on screen, and Disconnect AI ends an agent's hold on a session", "No telemetry or analytics calls found in the app source. Outbound traffic is the update check against GitHub Releases", "Twelve releases between 17 August and 13 October 2026, each with notes on GitHub" ], "weaknesses": [ "Once switched on, the API can read, type into and close every session in the app, including the user's own", "macOS only, and the API answers only while the desktop app is running and its window is alive", "None of the last 35 CI runs on the main branch passed, and nine Dependabot pull requests were open, the oldest from 18 August 2026", "No MCP tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint) and no security policy or security.txt", "The privacy policy covers the website and another product, not the app" ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the user to switch on Settings \u003e Agents \u003e AI Control API first, then read the URL and token from `~/.climanager/control-api.json`", "On `409 awaiting_input`, read the screen and answer with `keys` such as [\"down\",\"enter\"]. Leave folder-trust and permission choices to the user", "Stop using a session on `409 disconnected`. The user took it back", "Treat `timedOut: true` from `wait` as still running, not as a failure, and wait again", "Pass `ephemeral: true` when opening a scratch or worktree folder, and close only sessions you opened" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 60, "reliability": 68, "schema": 87, "security": 58, "transparency": 57 }, "provenanceScore": 50 }, "connect": { "install": "Download cli-manager-\u003cversion\u003e-arm64.dmg or -x64.dmg from https://github.com/woorichicken/CLI_manager/releases/latest", "http": "curl -s -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" http://127.0.0.1:47821/v1/templates", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --scope user --transport http cli-manager http://127.0.0.1:47821/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cli-manager" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "solhun (Jeong Kyeonghun)", "domain": "solhun.com", "domainRegistered": "2025-12-01", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://climanager.solhun.com/terms", "privacy": "https://climanager.solhun.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://climanager.solhun.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms and the privacy policy (both last updated 14 September 2026) name solhun, cover solhun.com, CLI Manager and FAIR Social Ops, and choose the law of the Republic of Korea. The privacy policy describes the website and FAIR Social Ops, not data handled by the app.", "solhun.com names its owner as Jeong Kyeonghun (정경훈), a design engineer at LightSoft. The app's build config reads Copyright © 2024 LightSoft, and the licence file reads Copyright (c) 2024 woorichicken. package.json still declares ISC.", "RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 2025-12-01 for solhun.com. The GitHub repository was created on 22 November 2025 under the account agi040922, which now redirects to woorichicken.", "climanager.solhun.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 14 October 2026. The repository has no SECURITY.md.", "The software runs on the owner's Mac, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 50 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager.json", "live": { "slug": "cli-manager", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "woorichicken/CLI_manager", "version": "v1.13.1", "released": "2026-10-13", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:40:17.630878579Z" } ], "githubStars": 17, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://solhun.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:02.430717797Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://climanager.solhun.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:21:39.678463755Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://climanager.solhun.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:57:32.690043568Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:46:13.654527431Z", "fingerprint": "f8b295f41024" }, { "url": "https://climanager.solhun.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:57:35.588640413Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:46:16.899175611Z", "fingerprint": "276cc3ab2863" }, { "url": "https://climanager.solhun.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:57:36.703664502Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-17T22:46:17.938020731Z", "fingerprint": "297bfa066a98" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T22:57:36.703664502Z" } }, "answer": "CLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) on agent readiness against Harness's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Harness leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "harness-autonomous", "name": "Harness", "vendor": "Autonomous, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.autonomous.ai/harness", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Harness, by Autonomous, is an open-source app that runs Claude Code, Codex and twelve other coding agents in tmux sessions across a person's computers. Agents can start, wait for and read other agents through its CLI or MCP tools.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harness-autonomous.json", "repo": "https://github.com/autonomous-ai/openharness", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio" ], "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "No account for harnesses on one computer. Agents starting harnesses, remote machines and the phone need the person's Harness account, signed in with Google or Apple in a browser (PKCE) or by QR from the phone. Agents use the person's own Claude Code or Codex credentials.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The desktop app, CLI and phone apps are free and MIT licensed. Agent subscriptions and model usage are the person's own. The Harness Device ($149) and Harness Pro ($299) are optional hardware.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, llms.txt, the agents page or the CLI source (checked 2026-10-17). The software has nothing to buy.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 7, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1284, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://harness.autonomous.ai/agents", "llmsTxt": "https://harness.autonomous.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "mit", "local", "free", "no-card", "macos", "linux", "typescript", "mcp", "llms-txt", "desktop-app", "cli", "agent-skill" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-17", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.3, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 570, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 85, "security": 57, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can start Claude Code or Codex sessions the person can watch, on this or another of their machines, through documented CLI commands and seven annotated MCP tools with exit codes. Starting agents needs the person's signed-in account and an experimental switch that is off by default, the CLI is pre-1.0, and usage counts are shared by default.", "bestFor": "A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch.", "strengths": [ "Seven MCP tools with typed JSON Schema inputs, `additionalProperties: false`, readOnlyHint on reads and server instructions on when not to start one", "llms.txt and an agents page list every command, the exit codes 0 to 5 and 124, and a `Next:` line after each answer", "Agents may start harnesses only after the person turns on an account switch an agent cannot flip, with at most four live harnesses each", "MIT licence for the app, CLI, daemon, relay and device firmware, with 548 tags between 9 September and 17 October 2026", "Remote terminal traffic is end-to-end encrypted, direct over WebRTC where the network allows, and relays forward ciphertext" ], "weaknesses": [ "Starting harnesses needs the person signed in with Google or Apple in a browser and an experimental account switch, off by default", "The CLI agents call is version 0.4.18 and the npm MCP package in the repository was never published", "Product usage counts are shared by default, with an opt-out in Settings or `harness privacy off`", "Installing Harness adds its commands to Claude Code's and Codex's permission rules, and Codex runs them outside its sandbox", "Autonomous's privacy policy and terms cover its stores and websites and do not mention Harness" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run `harness whoami` first. If it says you may not start harnesses, tell the person and do the work yourself", "Ask the person before installing Harness, and leave `harness login` and the agents-start-agents switch to them", "Treat exit 5 as final and do not retry. Treat exit 3 as needs the person, and never answer a harness's question or permission prompt", "Name every harness, put the whole task in `harness new`, then wait, read with `harness show` and close only the ones you started", "Run each `harness` command on its own or joined with `\u0026\u0026`, since piped commands no longer match the permission rule" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 60, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 85, "security": 57, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 72 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://harness.autonomous.ai/cli/install.sh | bash \u0026\u0026 harness start", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add harness -- harness mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "harness": { "args": [ "mcp" ], "command": "harness" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/harness-autonomous" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Autonomous, Inc.", "domain": "autonomous.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.autonomous.ai/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.autonomous.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/autonomous-ai/openharness/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The LICENSE file reads Copyright (c) 2026 Autonomous, Inc., and the privacy policy (last updated 7 July 2026) names Autonomous, Inc. The terms choose the law of California with binding arbitration.", "The privacy policy and terms cover Autonomous's websites, stores and apps in general. Neither names Harness or its product usage counts, which are described in the repository.", "RDAP at Identity Digital gives a registration date of 2017-12-16 for autonomous.ai.", "security.txt returned 404 on www.autonomous.ai and harness.autonomous.ai on 17 October 2026. The repository's SECURITY.md asks for reports to dee@autonomous.ai, with acknowledgement within three working days.", "CHANGELOG.md covers only the provider protocol (0.3.0, 6 August 2026). The CLI release workflow cuts a GitHub Release per tag, which we could not read because GitHub's web pages and API were not reachable from our network.", "The software runs on the owner's machines. Accounts, the relay and the backend are Autonomous's, and no status page was found." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.json", "live": { "slug": "harness-autonomous", "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.autonomous.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:13:27.381383505Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "caddd4dd6217" }, { "url": "https://www.autonomous.ai/terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:13:29.742966815Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c30237c8a371" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:13:29.742966815Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "solhun (Jeong Kyeonghun)", "b": "Autonomous, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP", "b": "stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "12", "b": "7", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-13", "b": "2026-10-17", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-14", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-14", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "15 stars", "b": "1.3k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.5/5 (4)", "b": "3/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "CLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) on agent readiness against Harness's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Harness leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, CLI Manager or Harness?" }, { "answer": "Yes. CLI Manager is open source (MIT). Harness is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are CLI Manager and Harness open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 68 against 35", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "A developer on macOS who runs several coding agents and wants another agent to start and watch sessions where the person can see and step in.", "slug": "cli-manager", "watchFor": "Once switched on, the API can read, type into and close every session in the app, including the user's own" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 82 against 63", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 54" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch.", "slug": "harness-autonomous", "watchFor": "Starting harnesses needs the person signed in with Google or Apple in a browser and an experimental account switch, off by default" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.multi-agent", "name": "Multi-agent orchestration" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cli-manager.json", "title": "Amp vs CLI Manager", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cli-manager" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "Amp vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cli-manager.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs CLI Manager", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cli-manager" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": 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"title": "Harness vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Harness vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Harness vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-reflection-mirror" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 33, "cli-manager": 68, "edge": "cli-manager", "harness-autonomous": 35, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cli-manager": 87, "edge": "cli-manager", "harness-autonomous": 85, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 19, "cli-manager": 63, "edge": "harness-autonomous", "harness-autonomous": 82, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "cli-manager": 58, "edge": "cli-manager", "harness-autonomous": 57, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "cli-manager": 60, "edge": "cli-manager", "harness-autonomous": 40, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "cli-manager": 62, "edge": "cli-manager", "harness-autonomous": 60, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 14, "cli-manager": 54, "edge": "harness-autonomous", "harness-autonomous": 68, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "CLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) on agent readiness against Harness's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cli-manager.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cli-manager.json\n- Harness: grade C, 60.3/100, rank #570 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harness-autonomous.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### CLI Manager (B)\n\nGood for: A developer on macOS who runs several coding agents and wants another agent to start and watch sessions where the person can see and step in.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 68 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nWatch for: Once switched on, the API can read, type into and close every session in the app, including the user's own\n\n### Harness (C)\n\nGood for: A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 63\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 54\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.0 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: Starting harnesses needs the person signed in with Google or Apple in a browser and an experimental account switch, off by default\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CLI Manager | Harness | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 68 | 35 | CLI Manager +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 85 | CLI Manager +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 82 | Harness +19 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 57 | CLI Manager +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | CLI Manager +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 60 | CLI Manager +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 54 | 68 | Harness +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.8 · B** | **60.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CLI Manager | Harness |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | solhun (Jeong Kyeonghun) | Autonomous, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP | stdio |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 12 | 7 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-17 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 15 stars | 1.3k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**CLI Manager.** An agent can open visible terminal sessions, type into them, wait and read the screen through 12 typed MCP tools or a documented REST API, and the user can take any session back. The API reaches every open session once enabled, the app runs only on macOS, and none of the last 35 CI runs on the main branch passed.\n\n**Harness.** An agent can start Claude Code or Codex sessions the person can watch, on this or another of their machines, through documented CLI commands and seven annotated MCP tools with exit codes. Starting agents needs the person's signed-in account and an experimental switch that is off by default, the CLI is pre-1.0, and usage counts are shared by default.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CLI Manager\n\n1. Ask the user to switch on Settings \u003e Agents \u003e AI Control API first, then read the URL and token from `~/.climanager/control-api.json`\n2. On `409 awaiting_input`, read the screen and answer with `keys` such as [\"down\",\"enter\"]. Leave folder-trust and permission choices to the user\n3. Stop using a session on `409 disconnected`. The user took it back\n4. Treat `timedOut: true` from `wait` as still running, not as a failure, and wait again\n5. Pass `ephemeral: true` when opening a scratch or worktree folder, and close only sessions you opened\n\n### Harness\n\n1. Run `harness whoami` first. If it says you may not start harnesses, tell the person and do the work yourself\n2. Ask the person before installing Harness, and leave `harness login` and the agents-start-agents switch to them\n3. Treat exit 5 as final and do not retry. Treat exit 3 as needs the person, and never answer a harness's question or permission prompt\n4. Name every harness, put the whole task in `harness new`, then wait, read with `harness show` and close only the ones you started\n5. Run each `harness` command on its own or joined with `\u0026\u0026`, since piped commands no longer match the permission rule\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CLI Manager or Harness?\n\nCLI Manager scores 65.8 (B) on agent readiness against Harness's 60.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Harness leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are CLI Manager and Harness open source?\n\nYes. CLI Manager is open source (MIT). Harness is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harness-autonomous.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harness-autonomous.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cli-manager\", \"b\": \"harness-autonomous\"}`. 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