{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "earendil-pi", "name": "Pi", "vendor": "Earendil", "vendorUrl": "https://pi.dev", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Pi is an open-source terminal coding agent from Earendil, run on the owner's machine with any of 15 or more model providers. It has interactive, print, JSON and RPC modes, a TypeScript SDK and a built-in MCP client.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/earendil-pi.json", "repo": "https://github.com/earendil-works/pi", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No Pi account needed. Model providers are connected with `/login` (a subscription or an API key, stored in `~/.pi/agent/auth.json`) or with environment variables such as `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`. MCP servers take headers, bearer tokens from the environment or OAuth, with tokens kept in `~/.pi/agent/mcp-auth.json`. Radius, the optional hosted gateway, needs its own sign-in or `RADIUS_API_KEY`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with no paid edition of the harness. The owner pays the model provider. Radius, Earendil's optional hosted gateway, is an early alpha sold by prepaid credits, and no public price list was found (checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the repository or the docs (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 113417, "npmWeekly": 5201697, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://pi.dev/docs/latest", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "typescript", "mcp", "json-output", "rpc", "no-sandbox" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 232, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 60, "reliability": 75, "schema": 84, "security": 61, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-06-08. GHSA-jfgx-wxx8-mp94 (CVE-2026-54328, high). Temporary extension installs used predictable paths under the system temp directory, so another local user on a shared Linux host could plant extension code that Pi then loaded. Fixed in 0.78.1. Fixed, published and four months old, -2. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories/GHSA-jfgx-wxx8-mp94", "2026-06-08. GHSA-mqxh-6gq7-558m (CVE-2026-54325, medium). Before 0.79.0 Pi loaded a repository's `.pi` settings and extensions without asking, so starting it in a cloned repository could run that repository's code. Fixed in 0.79.0 with project trust. Fixed and published, -2. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories/GHSA-mqxh-6gq7-558m", "2026-06-08. GHSA-7v5m-pr3q-6453 (CVE-2026-54326, low, XSS in HTML session exports) and GHSA-r95r-rj6r-c39x (CVE-2026-54327, low, a race in `auth.json` permissions). Both fixed in 0.78.1. Recorded without a deduction. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories" ], "verdict": "Four default tools, a JSONL event stream, an RPC mode and MCP tools kept out of the model's declarations by default keep context small and scripting simple. Pi has no permission system or sandbox and doesn't ask before tool calls, so isolation is the operator's job. Version 1.0.0 is dated 1 October 2026.", "bestFor": "Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container.", "strengths": [ "Four default tools (read, bash, edit, write), with MCP tools reachable through codemode scripts and not declared to the model by default", "`--mode json` streams JSONL events and `--mode rpc` takes JSONL commands, both documented record by record, with a Python client example", "Built-in MCP client for stdio and streamable HTTP servers with OAuth, per-tool exposure settings and a conformance job in CI", "Project trust stops a repository's `.pi` settings, extensions and MCP servers loading until approved, and non-interactive modes skip them by default", "npm releases carry SLSA provenance from GitHub Actions trusted publishing, and the installer pins transitive dependencies" ], "weaknesses": [ "No permission system or sandbox. Tool calls run with the user's rights and without an approval prompt", "An anonymous install and update ping to pi.dev and a latest-version request are on by default", "Four advisories published on 8 June 2026, one rated high and one medium, all fixed by 0.79.0", "No privacy policy for pi.dev or the CLI found, and pi.dev has no security.txt", "Eight of the last 15 CI runs on main failed on 7 and 8 October 2026, and a breaking provider rename shipped in patch release 1.0.3" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run Pi inside a container or VM for unattended work. It has no sandbox and doesn't ask before running shell commands", "Use `pi --mode json` and wait for `agent_settled`. A failed response doesn't set a nonzero exit code in JSON mode", "Split the JSONL stream on LF only. Node's `readline` also splits on U+2028 and U+2029, which are valid inside JSON strings", "Pass `--no-approve` or `--approve` in scripts to make the project trust decision explicit", "Set `PI_TELEMETRY=0` and `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK=1`, or `PI_OFFLINE=1`, to stop the default requests to pi.dev" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 60, "reliability": 75, "schema": 84, "security": 61, "transparency": 64 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh # or: npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent", "headless": { "command": "pi --mode json --no-session --no-approve \"$TASK\"", "env": { "PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK": "1", "PI_TELEMETRY": "0" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/earendil-pi" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Earendil Inc.", "domain": "pi.dev", "domainRegistered": "2024-01-30", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://pi.dev/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The pi.dev and earendil.com footers read Earendil Inc. The Radius alpha terms of 1 September 2026 name Earendil Works Co., and the README calls the company Earendil Works.", "We found no terms or privacy page for pi.dev or the CLI. pi.dev/terms, pi.dev/privacy and earendil.com/privacy return 404. Terms exist only for Radius, at radius.earendil.com/terms.", "pi.dev/.well-known/security.txt and earendil.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. SECURITY.md gives security@earendil.com and GitHub private reporting.", "RDAP for pi.dev gives a registration date of 2024-01-30 with Cloudflare as registrar. The README says the domain was donated by exe.dev.", "The repository moved from badlogic/pi-mono to earendil-works/pi, and the npm package from @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent to @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent at 0.74.0, per the advisories." ], "score": 63 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.json", "live": { "slug": "earendil-pi", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "earendil-works/pi", "version": "v1.3.0", "released": "2026-10-15", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:46:05.672383527Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent", "version": "1.3.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T01:46:05.215722484Z" } ], "githubStars": 115743, "npmWeekly": 4145028, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://pi.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:51:29.308856623Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "pi.dev", "registered": "2024-01-30", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/pi.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:19:49.150714299Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://pi.dev/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:27.814844587Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:28:32.441702707Z", "fingerprint": "2c7a827b9676" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:27.814844587Z" } }, "answer": "Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "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" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "harnessrouter/harnessrouter" } ], "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": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": 3075, "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" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "apache-2.0", "api-key", "usage", "openapi", "llms-txt", "docker", "python", "streaming", "cloud-agent", "agent-skill" ], "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 }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 53.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 25, "reliability": 35, "schema": 83, "security": 58, "transparency": 78 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "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}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/harnessrouter" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "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" } ], "provenance": { "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." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.json", "live": { "slug": "harnessrouter", "probe": { "target": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:42.280344324Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 265, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 275, "p95ms24h": 359, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:11:55.703224248Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "783aeda2cd75" }, { "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/pricing.md", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:57.613043138Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "fa9a36e3c1ac" }, { "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:53.558727976Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "af87474c34e0" }, { "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:55.591250792Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "501a6366c745" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:42.280344324Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Earendil", "b": "HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "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.", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk", "b": "3.1k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "3.3/5 (4)", "b": "2.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Pi or HarnessRouter?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Pi is open source (MIT). 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.).", "question": "Are Pi and HarnessRouter open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 35", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 72" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container.", "slug": "earendil-pi", "watchFor": "No permission system or sandbox. Tool calls run with the user's rights and without an approval prompt" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 64" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "harnessrouter", "watchFor": "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" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Aider vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Aider vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Amp vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Amp vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Claude Code vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Cline vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Cline vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Devin vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Devin vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-gemini-cli.json", "title": "Pi vs Gemini CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-gemini-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-github-copilot-cli.json", "title": "Pi vs GitHub Copilot CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-github-copilot-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-goose.json", "title": "Pi vs goose", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-goose" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Pi vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Pi vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Pi vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Pi vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Pi vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Pi vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Pi vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Pi vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Pi vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "goose vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-opencode.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openhands.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Harness vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 40, "earendil-pi": 75, "edge": "earendil-pi", "harnessrouter": 35, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "earendil-pi": 84, "edge": "earendil-pi", "harnessrouter": 83, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "earendil-pi": 76, "edge": "earendil-pi", "harnessrouter": 73, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "earendil-pi": 61, "edge": "earendil-pi", "harnessrouter": 58, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 35, "earendil-pi": 60, "edge": "earendil-pi", "harnessrouter": 25, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "earendil-pi": 87, "edge": "earendil-pi", "harnessrouter": 72, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "earendil-pi": 64, "edge": "harnessrouter", "harnessrouter": 72, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "earendil-pi": "Four default tools, a JSONL event stream, an RPC mode and MCP tools kept out of the model's declarations by default keep context small and scripting simple. Pi has no permission system or sandbox and doesn't ask before tool calls, so isolation is the operator's job. Version 1.0.0 is dated 1 October 2026.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Pi: grade B, 68.4/100, rank #232 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/earendil-pi.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### Pi (B)\n\nGood for: Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No permission system or sandbox. Tool calls run with the user's rights and without an approval prompt\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- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\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 | Pi | HarnessRouter | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 35 | Pi +40 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 84 | 83 | Pi +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 73 | Pi +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 58 | Pi +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 25 | Pi +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 72 | Pi +15 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 72 | HarnessRouter +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -4 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.4 · B** | **53.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Pi | HarnessRouter |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Earendil | 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 | MIT | 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 | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\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 | 113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk | 3.1k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Pi.** Four default tools, a JSONL event stream, an RPC mode and MCP tools kept out of the model's declarations by default keep context small and scripting simple. Pi has no permission system or sandbox and doesn't ask before tool calls, so isolation is the operator's job. Version 1.0.0 is dated 1 October 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### Pi\n\n1. Run Pi inside a container or VM for unattended work. It has no sandbox and doesn't ask before running shell commands\n2. Use `pi --mode json` and wait for `agent_settled`. A failed response doesn't set a nonzero exit code in JSON mode\n3. Split the JSONL stream on LF only. Node's `readline` also splits on U+2028 and U+2029, which are valid inside JSON strings\n4. Pass `--no-approve` or `--approve` in scripts to make the project trust decision explicit\n5. Set `PI_TELEMETRY=0` and `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK=1`, or `PI_OFFLINE=1`, to stop the default requests to pi.dev\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, Pi or HarnessRouter?\n\nPi scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Pi and HarnessRouter open source?\n\nYes. Pi is open source (MIT). 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/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"earendil-pi\", \"b\": \"harnessrouter\"}`. 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