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      "slug": "harnessrouter",
      "name": "HarnessRouter",
      "vendor": "HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://harnessrouter.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "HarnessRouter runs complete agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code and Hermes behind one HTTP API, the Unified Harness Protocol, with sessions, streaming, files and artifacts. It comes as a hosted cloud or a self-hosted Community Edition.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/HarnessRouter/harnessrouter",
      "license": "Apache-2.0 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides.",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "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
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        ],
        "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"
        }
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        "legalEntity": "Lumentree Corporation",
        "domain": "harnessrouter.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-06-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://harnessrouter.ai/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-17",
        "notes": [
          "The terms name Lumentree Corporation, a California corporation at 201 Spear Street, San Francisco, as the contracting party. The YC launch lists the company as Epsilla (Summer 2023), and the maintainer commits from an epsilla.com address.",
          "harnessrouter.ai was registered on 18 June 2026 and unifiedharnessprotocol.org on 12 August 2026 (registry RDAP, checked 2026-10-17).",
          "No status page. status.harnessrouter.ai doesn't resolve and harnessrouter.ai/status answers 404.",
          "harnessrouter.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. A disclosure policy is at /legal/security, and SECURITY.md in the repository names GitHub private reporting and contact@harnessrouter.ai.",
          "The changelog is the UHP specification's. HarnessRouter itself has 202 tags in the repository and no product changelog page was found.",
          "The terms forbid scraping or crawling except as allowed by the documentation, an API endpoint, robots.txt or written permission. robots.txt on harnessrouter.ai and unifiedharnessprotocol.org allows all paths."
        ],
        "score": 65
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.json",
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        "slug": "harnessrouter",
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          "target": "https://api.harnessrouter.ai",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:30:53.014238813Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 297,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 275,
          "p95ms24h": 359,
          "samples24h": 27,
          "samples30d": 27,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-18",
              "probes": 6,
              "ok": 6
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            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:11:55.703224248Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://harnessrouter.ai/pricing.md",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:03:57.613043138Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "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",
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    },
    "answer": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "paperclip",
      "name": "Paperclip",
      "vendor": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://paperclip.ing",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Paperclip is an open-source, self-hosted server and web interface that organises AI agents into a company with an org chart, tasks, budgets and approvals. It drives Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and other harnesses through adapters.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "paperclipai"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@paperclipai/mcp-server"
        },
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "No Paperclip account. The default `local_trusted` mode needs no login on loopback. Authenticated mode uses browser sessions for people, board API keys for scripts, and agent API keys or short-lived run JWTs as bearer tokens.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, self-hosted, with nothing to buy. The owner pays each harness's model provider or subscription. Paperclip Cloud is a waitlist with no published price.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the site or the server source (checked 2026-10-08). The only mention in the repository is a link to a third-party skill in a planning note.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 98666,
        "npmWeekly": 59684,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.paperclip.ing",
      "llmsTxt": "https://paperclip.ing/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.multi-agent",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker",
        "mcp",
        "typescript"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-05",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 59,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 620,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 17,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 78,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 65
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": -10,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-04-10 to 2026-04-16. Ten advisories published in a week, four of them critical, among them GHSA-68qg-g8mg-6pr7 (CVE-2026-41679, 10.0, unauthenticated remote code execution through an import authorisation bypass) and two cross-tenant agent key flaws rated 9.9. All ten list 2026.416.0 as the fix. Fixed and published, a little under six months old, -5. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories",
          "2026-07-22. GHSA-x8hx-rhr2-9rf7 (9.6), drive-by remote code execution against the default `local_trusted` mode through DNS rebinding. The advisory names no patched version. The current source applies the hostname guard to `local_trusted` private deployments, so we read it as fixed without a documented version, -3. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories/GHSA-x8hx-rhr2-9rf7",
          "2026-04-16. GHSA-gqqj-85qm-8qhf (8.7), a `codex_local` agent inherited a Gmail connector from the owner's ChatGPT account and sent real email. The advisory names no patched version, and `codex_local` still defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, -2. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories/GHSA-gqqj-85qm-8qhf"
        ],
        "verdict": "Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026.",
        "bestFor": "Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.",
        "strengths": [
          "One deployment runs agents on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and OpenClaw through adapters, under one org chart",
          "Board approvals gate agent hires and the CEO agent's strategy, and connection actions can be set to Allowed, Ask first or Off",
          "Budgets by company, agent and project pause an agent at 100 per cent of recorded spend",
          "The running server publishes its REST surface as OpenAPI at `/api/openapi.json`, and the docs site answers every page as Markdown at `.md`",
          "Eleven stable releases between 20 July and 5 October 2026, each with dated notes and an upgrade guide"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "`claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host",
          "Twelve published security advisories since April 2026, five critical, including CVE-2026-41679 (unauthenticated remote code execution, fixed in 2026.416.0)",
          "Anonymous usage telemetry is on by default and goes to telemetry.paperclip.ing until an opt-out is set",
          "2,849 open issues on 8 October 2026, 1,396 of them with no comment, and 78 closed in 30 days against 686 opened",
          "Calendar versions with no 1.0, and release 2026.916.0 carried five breaking changes"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default",
          "Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider",
          "Install with Node.js 24.11 or newer, and install and sign in to each harness CLI on the host first. Paperclip assumes they are there",
          "Use `--bind lan` or `--bind tailnet` at onboarding for anything beyond one machine. The default `local_trusted` mode treats every request as the board admin",
          "Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 59
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 78,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 81,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 73
        },
        "provenanceScore": 56
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npx paperclipai@latest onboard --yes   # Node.js 24.11 or newer",
        "http": "curl http://localhost:3100/api/health",
        "headless": {
          "command": "npx paperclipai issue create --title \"$TASK\" --json",
          "env": {
            "PAPERCLIP_API_KEY": "\u003cboard or agent key\u003e",
            "PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED": "1"
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/paperclip"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.",
        "domain": "paperclip.ing",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-03-02",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://paperclip.ing/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://paperclip.ing/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://paperclip.ing/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (effective 1 April 2026, updated 23 July 2026) and the privacy policy (effective 23 July 2026) name Paperclip Labs, Inc. and Delaware law. The licence file in the repository reads Copyright (c) 2025 Paperclip AI.",
          "RDAP at the .ing registry gives a registration date of 2026-03-02 for paperclip.ing, with Cloudflare as registrar. The GitHub repository was created the same day.",
          "paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt and docs.paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. SECURITY.md sends reports to GitHub private advisories.",
          "The software is self-hosted, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check. status.paperclip.ing did not answer.",
          "The privacy policy says it governs the hosted services, and that a self-hosted deployment processes data on the owner's infrastructure."
        ],
        "score": 56
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "paperclip",
        "versions": [
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            "name": "paperclipai/paperclip",
            "version": "v2026.1012.0",
            "released": "2026-10-12",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:08:44.31745139Z"
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          {
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            "name": "@paperclipai/mcp-server",
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            "name": "paperclipai",
            "version": "2026.1012.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:08:42.095685664Z"
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        ],
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        "npmWeekly": 48653,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:35.65906303Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://paperclip.ing/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:22:56.210629559Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "paperclip.ing",
          "registered": "2026-03-02",
          "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/paperclip.ing",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:14:53.975891006Z"
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        "pages": [
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            "kind": "changelog",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.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### 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 65\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### Paperclip (C)\n\nGood for: Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 58\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: `claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HarnessRouter | Paperclip | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 66 | Paperclip +31 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 81 | HarnessRouter +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 70 | HarnessRouter +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 64 | Paperclip +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Paperclip +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 78 | Paperclip +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 65 | HarnessRouter +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -10 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.2 · D** | **59 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HarnessRouter | Paperclip |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) | Paperclip Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | 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. | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated |  | 2026-07-23 |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-07-23 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |\n| Popularity | 3.1k stars | 99k stars, 60k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Paperclip.** Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Paperclip\n\n1. Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default\n2. Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider\n3. Install with Node.js 24.11 or newer, and install and sign in to each harness CLI on the host first. Paperclip assumes they are there\n4. Use `--bind lan` or `--bind tailnet` at onboarding for anything beyond one machine. The default `local_trusted` mode treats every request as the board admin\n5. Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, HarnessRouter or Paperclip?\n\nPaperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are HarnessRouter and Paperclip open source?\n\nYes. 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.). Paperclip is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"harnessrouter\", \"b\": \"paperclip\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare harnessrouter paperclip`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/harnessrouter.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json\n\n## Other comparisons with HarnessRouter or Paperclip\n\n- [Agent Zero vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Aider vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Amp vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Claude Code vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Cline vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Cursor CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Devin vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Droid CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Pi vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Gemini CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [GitHub Copilot CLI vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [goose vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Kilo Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kilo-code-cli.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Kiro CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-kiro-cli.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Muse Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-muse-code.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openai-codex.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenCode](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-opencode.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openhands.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n- [Amp vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Claude Code vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [CLI Manager vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [CLI Manager vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Cline vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Devin vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Droid CLI vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Gemini CLI vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [GitHub Copilot CLI vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [goose vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Harness vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Harness vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Parallax](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-parallax-agents.md)\n- [Kilo Code CLI vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Kiro CLI vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Muse Code vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [OpenCode vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Paperclip](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-paperclip.md)\n- [Paperclip vs Parallax](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.md)\n- [Paperclip vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Paperclip vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [Paperclip vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n",
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