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      "summary": "Droid CLI is Factory's closed-source coding agent for the terminal. It runs interactively or headless through `droid exec`, connects MCP servers, runs multi-agent Missions, and can be driven by TypeScript and Python SDKs. A paid Factory plan is required.",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory",
      "license": "Proprietary, under Factory's Terms and Conditions. The `droid` npm package is marked `UNLICENSED` and the public repository holds documentation only. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0",
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@factory/droid-sdk"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "droid-sdk"
        }
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      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A Factory account is required. The interactive CLI signs in through a browser with OAuth, and the docs say stored tokens rotate every 30 days. Headless runs set `FACTORY_API_KEY` to a key starting `fk-` created on the API keys page in Factory settings. Organisations can use service accounts whose keys can be rotated and revoked through an API.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Pro is $20 a month, Plus $100 and Max $200, each with the CLI, the Factory App and the SDK. Teams is $60 a month per team plus $40 a seat, and Business and Enterprise are by quote. Usage is capped by rolling 5-hour, 7-day and 30-day rate limits stated without numbers. Extra usage is prepaid credit from $10. No free tier or trial was found (checked 2026-10-09).",
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        "endpoints": []
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        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
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        "llms-txt",
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        "sandbox",
        "telemetry-default-on"
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      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 16,
        "methodology": "0.4",
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          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 10,
          "reliability": 49,
          "schema": 79,
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          "transparency": 64
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        "verdict": "`droid exec` is read-only unless `--auto` raises the autonomy level, with command rules, an optional kernel-enforced sandbox, JSON output and documented exit codes. No free tier, status page or security.txt was found, the source is closed, and usage metrics go to Factory by default.",
        "bestFor": "Teams that want a terminal coding agent with tiered autonomy, command rules and an optional sandbox, and that will pay for a Factory plan.",
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          "`droid exec` is read-only by default. `--auto low`, `medium` or `high` opens edits and commands by risk tier, and a run that exceeds its level exits non-zero",
          "Optional OS sandbox using Seatbelt on macOS and bubblewrap with seccomp on Linux, with writes limited to the working directory and network limited to allowed domains",
          "Text, JSON and JSON-RPC output, exit codes 0, 1 and 2, session resume and fork, and tool lists that can be restricted per run",
          "llms.txt with a Markdown copy of every docs page, and a dated changelog with 62 entries between 11 July and 8 October 2026",
          "The install script verifies a SHA-256 checksum, and the `droid` npm package is published from GitHub Actions through a trusted publisher"
        ],
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          "No free tier or trial was found. Plans start at $20 a month and included usage is stated only as rolling rate limits without numbers",
          "The sandbox is off until `sandbox.enabled` is set, and `--skip-permissions-unsafe` skips every permission prompt",
          "Usage metrics go to Factory's collector by default. The pages read give no opt-out outside an airgapped deployment",
          "Closed source on a 0.x version line with near-daily releases. The public tracker had 33 open issues on 9 October 2026, most with no reply",
          "No status page and no security.txt were found. The trust centre is drawn by script and was not read",
          "The individual terms forbid using the service for benchmarking or competitive analysis, which matters before any probe is run"
        ],
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          "Set `FACTORY_API_KEY` (starts `fk-`) from the API keys page in Factory settings for headless runs. Interactive use signs in through a browser",
          "Start with `droid exec` and no flags for analysis. Add `--auto low` for edits and `--auto medium` for installs, tests and local commits",
          "Use `--output-format json` and read `is_error`, `num_turns` and `session_id`. Treat a non-zero exit code as failure",
          "Set `sandbox.enabled` to true before running on untrusted code. In `droid exec` a sandbox violation is denied without a prompt",
          "Pin the version in CI with `npm install -g droid@\u003cversion\u003e`, or set `FACTORY_DROID_AUTO_UPDATE_ENABLED=false` on standalone installs, which update themselves"
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            "confidence": "medium",
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            "methodology": "0.4",
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 79,
          "payments": 10,
          "reliability": 49,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 63,
          "transparency": 55
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        "provenanceScore": 72
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            "FACTORY_API_KEY": "fk-..."
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
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          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "rolling rate limits, numbers not published"
        },
        {
          "item": "Plus plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 100,
          "note": "about 5 times Pro usage"
        },
        {
          "item": "Max plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "about 10 times Pro usage"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 40,
          "note": "plus $60 a month per team, up to 10 seats"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "The San Francisco AI Factory, Inc.",
        "domain": "factory.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1999-03-09",
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        "terms": "https://factory.com/legal/terms-individual",
        "privacy": "https://factory.com/privacy-policy",
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          "The Terms and Conditions for Individual Plans (last updated 14 July 2026) name The San Francisco AI Factory, Inc., a Delaware corporation in San Francisco. The privacy policy (last updated 20 August 2026) names the same company.",
          "RDAP (Verisign) gives factory.com a registration date of 1999-03-09, long before the company.",
          "The CLI installs from app.factory.ai and downloads.factory.ai and signs in to app.factory.ai, a second domain of the vendor's.",
          "factory.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 9 October 2026.",
          "No status page is linked from the home page, the docs support page or the other pages read. factory.com/sla states a 99 per cent availability target.",
          "The terms linked are those for individual plans. Organisation plans are sold under separate orders, which we did not read."
        ],
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    "answer": "Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Harness²'s 41.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Harness² leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Harness² is Google Research's open-source Python framework that has an editor model rewrite an agent's harness (prompts, guardrails, memory, tools, skills, subagents, scripts and plugins) for each task and keeps lessons for later tasks, with model weights fixed.",
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      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness2.md",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harness2.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/google-research/harness2",
      "license": "Apache-2.0. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation).",
      "transports": [],
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      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No Harness² account or key. Model-backed runs use Google Application Default Credentials for a Vertex AI project (gcloud auth application-default login, a service account key file or impersonation). The optional Codex bridge generates its own local access key.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy. Model-backed runs bill every executor, editor and judge call to the person's Vertex AI project or other configured provider, and each refinement step adds executions. The local demo needs no credentials.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, docs or source (checked 2026-10-18). The software has nothing to buy.",
        "endpoints": []
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        "githubStars": 4200,
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/google-research/harness2/tree/main/docs",
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          "payments": 40,
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          "confidence": "medium",
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        "bestFor": "Researchers who want to reproduce or extend the paper's per-task harness refinement on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench with OpenCode or Codex on Vertex AI.",
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          "Edits reach eight harness components, from the system prompt and guardrails to skills, scripts, subagents and plugins, not only the prompt",
          "Apache-2.0, with upstream checkouts pinned by commit, a hash list for bundled files and each third-party runner's licence and provenance",
          "Rerunning a command resumes it, failed grades stay unscored rather than zero, and `--dry-run` previews task selection without model calls",
          "Each editor session's prompt, response, model and cost are written to an audit folder beside the run"
        ],
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          "No hosted API, MCP server or tagged release. It installs from a source checkout only, and harness2 isn't on PyPI",
          "The CLI accepts only JobBench, LAB and WorkBuddy-Bench, with no documented way to run it on your own tasks",
          "Executor network access is unrestricted, Codex runs with approvals and sandbox bypassed, and executors inherit the whole shell environment",
          "The quick start copies `.env.example`, which the repository doesn't contain, and no .gitignore keeps a filled-in .env out of commits",
          "No CI, and 41 outside pull requests and 6 issues open on 18 October 2026 with no outside change merged"
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          "Don't plan to call Harness² as a service. It's a research CLI run from a clone, on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench only",
          "Ask the person for a Vertex AI project, model IDs and `gcloud auth application-default login` before any model-backed run, and start with `--max-tasks 1`",
          "Run executors behind an egress firewall and block huggingface.co and github.com after setup, as the docs advise, so rubrics can't be fetched",
          "Write .env yourself with GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT, HARNESS2_SOLVER_MODEL and HARNESS2_JUDGE_MODEL, since .env.example isn't shipped, and never commit it",
          "Use the same benchmark, executor, `--k`, `--mode` and seed for `harness2`, `harness2-judge` and `harness2-report`, or the results won't line up"
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          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
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        "avgRating": 2.5,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
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          "maintenance": 36,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 20,
          "schema": 51,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 48
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        "headless": {
          "command": "harness2-setup lab \u0026\u0026 harness2-check --bench lab \u0026\u0026 harness2 --bench lab --k 1 --mode parallel --only-domains antitrust-competition --max-tasks 1",
          "env": {
            "GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT": "\u003cyour-vertex-project\u003e",
            "HARNESS2_JUDGE_MODEL": "\u003cmodel-id\u003e",
            "HARNESS2_SOLVER_MODEL": "\u003cprovider/model\u003e"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
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        "legalEntity": "Google LLC",
        "domain": "harness2.github.io",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "domainNote": "A project page on GitHub Pages, not a registered domain. The code is in the google-research organisation on GitHub.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-18",
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          "LICENSE is Apache-2.0, and pyproject.toml and every source file name Google LLC. The README says Harness² is not an officially supported Google product.",
          "No terms or privacy policy govern the package or the project page. Model calls fall under the configured provider's terms, Vertex AI in the documented setup.",
          "The repository has no SECURITY.md, and harness2.github.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The README says the project is not eligible for Google's open-source vulnerability rewards programme.",
          "No changelog, tags or GitHub releases. The version is 0.1.0 in pyproject.toml.",
          "The software runs on the owner's machine, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page.",
          "The project page has no robots.txt and carries a noindex, nofollow robots meta tag. It was read once as a public page."
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      },
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        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
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        "a": "Factory",
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        "a": "no (local only)",
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      },
      {
        "a": "",
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        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
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        "a": "Paid",
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "Proprietary, under Factory's Terms and Conditions. The `droid` npm package is marked `UNLICENSED` and the public repository holds documentation only. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0",
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      },
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        "a": "yes",
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        "a": "yes",
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        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
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      },
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        "a": "none",
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        "answer": "Droid CLI scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Harness²'s 41.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Harness² leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Droid CLI or Harness²?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Droid CLI. Harness² is open source (Apache-2.0. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation).).",
        "question": "Are Droid CLI and Harness² open source?"
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    ],
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          "Reliability, 49 against 20",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 51",
          "Agent ergonomics, 72 against 59",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 44",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 36",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 44"
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        "goodFor": "Teams that want a terminal coding agent with tiered autonomy, command rules and an optional sandbox, and that will pay for a Factory plan.",
        "slug": "droid-cli",
        "watchFor": "No free tier or trial was found. Plans start at $20 a month and included usage is stated only as rolling rate limits without numbers"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness2.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harness2.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 354 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Droid CLI (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want a terminal coding agent with tiered autonomy, command rules and an optional sandbox, and that will pay for a Factory plan.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 49 against 20\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 44\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 36\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 44\n\nWatch for: No free tier or trial was found. Plans start at $20 a month and included usage is stated only as rolling rate limits without numbers\n\n### Harness² (E)\n\nGood for: Researchers who want to reproduce or extend the paper's per-task harness refinement on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench with OpenCode or Codex on Vertex AI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 10\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No hosted API, MCP server or tagged release. It installs from a source checkout only, and harness2 isn't on PyPI\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Droid CLI | Harness² | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 49 | 20 | Droid CLI +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 79 | 51 | Droid CLI +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 72 | 59 | Droid CLI +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 63 | 44 | Droid CLI +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 40 | Harness² +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 36 | Droid CLI +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 44 | Droid CLI +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.1 · C** | **41.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Droid CLI | Harness² |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Factory | Google (Google Research) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary, under Factory's Terms and Conditions. The `droid` npm package is marked `UNLICENSED` and the public repository holds documentation only. The Python SDK is Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation). |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-14 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-20 | no document linked |\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 | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |\n| Popularity | 49 stars, 7.8k npm/wk | 4.2k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Droid CLI.** `droid exec` is read-only unless `--auto` raises the autonomy level, with command rules, an optional kernel-enforced sandbox, JSON output and documented exit codes. No free tier, status page or security.txt was found, the source is closed, and usage metrics go to Factory by default.\n\n**Harness².** Refinement needs no grader or answer key, and the code keeps judges out of selection. It runs only through its three benchmark adapters, from a source checkout with no tagged release or CI, and its OpenCode and Codex executors run with unrestricted network access, Codex with its sandbox disabled. The benchmark gains are the authors' claims.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Droid CLI\n\n1. Set `FACTORY_API_KEY` (starts `fk-`) from the API keys page in Factory settings for headless runs. Interactive use signs in through a browser\n2. Start with `droid exec` and no flags for analysis. Add `--auto low` for edits and `--auto medium` for installs, tests and local commits\n3. Use `--output-format json` and read `is_error`, `num_turns` and `session_id`. Treat a non-zero exit code as failure\n4. Set `sandbox.enabled` to true before running on untrusted code. In `droid exec` a sandbox violation is denied without a prompt\n5. Pin the version in CI with `npm install -g droid@\u003cversion\u003e`, or set `FACTORY_DROID_AUTO_UPDATE_ENABLED=false` on standalone installs, which update themselves\n\n### Harness²\n\n1. Don't plan to call Harness² as a service. It's a research CLI run from a clone, on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench only\n2. Ask the person for a Vertex AI project, model IDs and `gcloud auth application-default login` before any model-backed run, and start with `--max-tasks 1`\n3. Run executors behind an egress firewall and block huggingface.co and github.com after setup, as the docs advise, so rubrics can't be fetched\n4. Write .env yourself with GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT, HARNESS2_SOLVER_MODEL and HARNESS2_JUDGE_MODEL, since .env.example isn't shipped, and never commit it\n5. Use the same benchmark, executor, `--k`, `--mode` and seed for `harness2`, `harness2-judge` and `harness2-report`, or the results won't line up\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Droid CLI or Harness²?\n\nDroid CLI scores 59.1 (C) on agent readiness against Harness²'s 41.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Harness² leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Are Droid CLI and Harness² open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Droid CLI. Harness² is open source (Apache-2.0. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation).).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-harness2.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-harness2.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"droid-cli\", \"b\": \"harness2\"}`. 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