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      "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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      "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).",
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      "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.",
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      "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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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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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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          "Refining a harness needs no grader, rubric or answer key. The judge module runs only after selection, and nothing in the method imports it",
          "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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          "measured": false
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          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 20,
          "schema": 51,
          "security": 44,
          "transparency": 48
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          "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",
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            "GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT": "\u003cyour-vertex-project\u003e",
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
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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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    "answer": "Qoder CLI scores 59.3 (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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      "slug": "qoder-cli",
      "name": "Qoder CLI",
      "vendor": "Qoder (BRIGHT ZENITH PRIVATE LIMITED)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://qoder.com/cli",
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      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Qoder's terminal coding agent. It reads and edits files, runs commands and calls MCP servers under permission rules, with a `-p` headless mode, an Agent Client Protocol server and a TypeScript and Python Agent SDK. Needs a Qoder account.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qoder-cli",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qoder-cli.md",
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      "license": "Proprietary, under the Qoder Terms of Service (BRIGHT ZENITH PRIVATE LIMITED, last updated 29 April 2026). No source is published, and the Agent SDK's LICENSE file points to the same terms",
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          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@qoder-ai/qodercli"
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        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@qoder-ai/qoder-agent-sdk"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "qoder-agent-sdk"
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      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "`/login` or `qoder login` through a browser on a Qoder account, with background token refresh, or a Personal Access Token in `QODER_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` for CI, ACP clients and the SDK. A PAT is created at qoder.com/account/integrations with chosen permissions and an expiry, and can be revoked. Organisations can use service accounts with scoped tokens.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free gives basic models for a limited number of messages and a 14-day Pro trial with 300 credits. Pro is $20 a month (2,000 credits), Pro+ $60 (6,000) and Ultra $200 (20,000). Credit Packs cost $20 for 1,500 credits and expire after a month. Teams is $40 a seat a month with 3,000 credits, Enterprise $20 a seat with credits bought separately (checked 2026-10-18).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the CLI or SDK docs, the pricing docs or the CLI release notes (checked 2026-10-18).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-18"
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        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "closed-source",
        "mcp",
        "acp",
        "llms-txt",
        "telemetry-default-on",
        "free-tier"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-16",
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        "score": 59.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 609,
        "ranked": true,
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        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 51,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 55,
          "transparency": 64
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-18"
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        "negative": -3,
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          "2026-09-19. CLI 1.1.57 fixed \"a security issue where internal Git calls could execute repository configuration commands\", so opening an untrusted repository could run commands from its Git configuration. Fixed within the month and disclosed only as a release-note line, with no advisory, affected versions or CVE found. Inside six months, -2 (https://docs.qoder.com/release-notes/qoder-cli.md)",
          "2026-07-16. CLI 1.0.47 fixed the PreToolUse hook not taking effect in headless and SDK modes. The permissions page describes that hook as an interception that holds even in YOLO mode, so headless and SDK runs before the fix skipped organisation hooks. Fixed and noted in the release notes. Judgement call, -1 (https://docs.qoder.com/release-notes/qoder-cli.md)"
        ],
        "verdict": "A closed-source terminal agent with a documented headless mode, an ACP server, typed TypeScript and Python SDKs and near-daily releases. Permission rules and modes are detailed, but no local sandbox is documented, usage statistics are on by default, and security fixes appear only as one-line release notes with no advisories or disclosure policy.",
        "bestFor": "Developers already on Qoder who want the same agent in a terminal, in CI through a PAT, in Zed through ACP, or embedded through the Agent SDK.",
        "strengths": [
          "Headless `-p` with text, json and stream-json output, `--max-turns`, and ask turned into deny",
          "Agent SDK for TypeScript and Python that drives the CLI with approval callbacks, hooks and session control",
          "Documented exit codes and Result error subtypes for scripts and SDK hosts",
          "Personal Access Tokens with chosen permissions and expiry, and scoped service accounts for organisations",
          "74 dated releases in the 90 days to 16 October 2026"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "No local sandbox is documented, and `auto` mode approves read-only tools on any path",
          "Usage and AI code statistics are on by default, and content use for improvement depends on the plan",
          "Closed source with no public CI, issue tracker or security advisories, and the audit log leaves out CLI execution",
          "No security.txt, disclosure policy or status page found",
          "Agent SDK release notes stop at 1.0.41 on 15 September while npm has 1.0.53"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `QODER_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` in CI. The browser sign-in can't complete in a headless run",
          "Pass `--permission-mode` with `--allowed-tools` in headless runs. Every ask is denied, and `--yolo` removes all checks",
          "Set `--max-turns` on unattended runs, and branch on exit codes 41 (authentication) and 53 (turn limit)",
          "Set `privacy.usageStatisticsEnabled` and `aiCodeStatistics.enabled` to false in ~/.qoder/settings.json if usage data must stay local",
          "Don't pass `--model lite`. The Lite tier was removed on 18 September 2026 and headless requests naming it fail"
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        "metrics": {
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          "measured": false
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          "reliability": 51,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 55,
          "transparency": 51
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        "install": "curl -fsSL https://qoder.com/install | bash",
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          "env": {
            "QODER_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "\u003ctoken\u003e"
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          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
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          "item": "Credit Pack",
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          "usd": 20,
          "note": "1,500 credits, expires after one month, not refundable"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 40,
          "note": "3,000 credits a seat a month"
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        "domain": "qoder.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2009-08-21",
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        "terms": "https://qoder.com/product-service",
        "privacy": "https://qoder.com/privacy-policy",
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        "changelog": "https://docs.qoder.com/release-notes/qoder-cli.md",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-18",
        "notes": [
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          "We didn't name a parent company, because neither the terms nor the privacy policy names one.",
          "qoder.com/.well-known/security.txt and docs.qoder.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 18 October 2026.",
          "No status page was found, and status.qoder.com didn't resolve.",
          "RDAP (Verisign) gives qoder.com a registration date of 21 August 2009, long before the product.",
          "qoder.com's robots.txt disallows /pricing, so prices come from docs.qoder.com/account/pricing.md."
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        "score": 76
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
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      {
        "a": "2026-10-08",
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        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
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        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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      {
        "a": "2.5/5 (4)",
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        "answer": "Qoder CLI scores 59.3 (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, Harness² or Qoder CLI?"
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      {
        "answer": "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).). No open-source release is listed for Qoder CLI.",
        "question": "Are Harness² and Qoder CLI open source?"
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          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 35"
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          "Open source",
          "No incidents deducted, where Qoder CLI loses 3 points for them"
        ],
        "goodFor": "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.",
        "slug": "harness2",
        "watchFor": "No hosted API, MCP server or tagged release. It installs from a source checkout only, and harness2 isn't on PyPI"
      },
      {
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          "Reliability, 51 against 20",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 51",
          "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 59",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 44",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 36",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 44"
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          "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5"
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        "slug": "qoder-cli",
        "watchFor": "No local sandbox is documented, and `auto` mode approves read-only tools on any path"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harness2.json",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qoder-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qoder-cli.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\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 35\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n- No incidents deducted, where Qoder CLI loses 3 points for them\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### Qoder CLI (C)\n\nGood for: Developers already on Qoder who want the same agent in a terminal, in CI through a PAT, in Zed through ACP, or embedded through the Agent SDK.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 51 against 20\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 59\n- Security \u0026 auth, 55 against 44\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 36\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 44\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.5 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No local sandbox is documented, and `auto` mode approves read-only tools on any path\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Harness² | Qoder CLI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 51 | Qoder CLI +31 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 81 | Qoder CLI +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 80 | Qoder CLI +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 55 | Qoder CLI +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 35 | Harness² +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 36 | 72 | Qoder CLI +36 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 44 | 64 | Qoder CLI +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.6 · E** | **59.3 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Harness² | Qoder CLI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Google (Google Research) | Qoder (BRIGHT ZENITH PRIVATE LIMITED) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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). | Proprietary, under the Qoder Terms of Service (BRIGHT ZENITH PRIVATE LIMITED, last updated 29 April 2026). No source is published, and the Agent SDK's LICENSE file points to the same terms |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 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 | 4.2k stars | 5k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Qoder CLI.** A closed-source terminal agent with a documented headless mode, an ACP server, typed TypeScript and Python SDKs and near-daily releases. Permission rules and modes are detailed, but no local sandbox is documented, usage statistics are on by default, and security fixes appear only as one-line release notes with no advisories or disclosure policy.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Qoder CLI\n\n1. Set `QODER_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` in CI. The browser sign-in can't complete in a headless run\n2. Pass `--permission-mode` with `--allowed-tools` in headless runs. Every ask is denied, and `--yolo` removes all checks\n3. Set `--max-turns` on unattended runs, and branch on exit codes 41 (authentication) and 53 (turn limit)\n4. Set `privacy.usageStatisticsEnabled` and `aiCodeStatistics.enabled` to false in ~/.qoder/settings.json if usage data must stay local\n5. Don't pass `--model lite`. The Lite tier was removed on 18 September 2026 and headless requests naming it fail\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Harness² or Qoder CLI?\n\nQoder CLI scores 59.3 (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 Harness² and Qoder CLI open source?\n\nHarness² 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).). No open-source release is listed for Qoder CLI.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-qoder-cli.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-qoder-cli.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"harness2\", \"b\": \"qoder-cli\"}`. 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