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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": []
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      "toolCount": 0,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 3075,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
      },
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      "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"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "self-hosted",
        "open-source",
        "apache-2.0",
        "api-key",
        "usage",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker",
        "python",
        "streaming",
        "cloud-agent",
        "agent-skill"
      ],
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      "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
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          "tasks"
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        "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": [
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            "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}'"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/harnessrouter"
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      "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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      "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
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      "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,
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          "p95ms24h": 359,
          "samples24h": 24,
          "samples30d": 24,
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            {
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              "ok": 3
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            "url": "https://unifiedharnessprotocol.org/changelog",
            "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": "Qwen Code scores 72.4 (BB) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "slug": "qwen-code",
      "name": "Qwen Code",
      "vendor": "Alibaba (Qwen team)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-docs/en/users/overview/",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Open-source coding agent from Alibaba's Qwen team for the terminal, with desktop, browser and editor interfaces. It runs Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini-compatible models or a local one, and runs headless with `qwen -p`.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen-code.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@qwen-code/qwen-code"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@qwen-code/sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "qwen-code-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "ghcr.io/qwenlm/qwen-code"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "No account of its own. A model key goes in an environment variable or `~/.qwen/settings.json`, for Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Coding Plan, Token Plan or a standard key), a listed third-party provider, or any OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini-compatible endpoint including a local server. Vertex AI credentials also work. The Qwen OAuth sign-in was discontinued on 15 April 2026.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy for the CLI. The owner pays the model provider, or nothing with a local model. The Qwen OAuth free tier ended on 15 April 2026. Alibaba Cloud sells a fixed-fee Coding Plan and a usage-billed Token Plan for it, and we couldn't load their price pages on 8 October 2026.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-08).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 28362,
        "npmWeekly": 104819,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-docs/en/users/overview/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-docs/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "open-source",
        "typescript",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "telemetry-default-on",
        "pre-1.0",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "local",
        "docker"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-05",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 72.4,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 107,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1133,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 85,
          "maintenance": 88,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 91,
          "security": 53,
          "transparency": 63
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-08"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Apache-2.0 with no account of its own, any OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini-compatible endpoint, and headless runs bounded by turn, tool-call and wall-time budgets with distinct exit codes. Out of the box, Auto mode lets an LLM classifier approve tool calls, with the sandbox and folder trust both off. Usage statistics are on by default.",
        "bestFor": "Developers and CI jobs that want an open-source harness tied to no single model vendor, with run budgets and SDKs.",
        "strengths": [
          "Apache-2.0, with CI on main showing 12 passes and 3 cancelled runs in the last 15, none failed",
          "Headless `qwen -p` with json and stream-json output, and exit codes 53 for the turn limit and 55 for a wall-time or tool-call budget",
          "Works with any OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini-compatible endpoint, including a local server, with keys set by environment variable",
          "39 stable releases in the 90 days to 8 October 2026, each with a Breaking Changes heading in a generated changelog",
          "A Linux tool sandbox (Bubblewrap or Landlock) with `network: closed`, plus Seatbelt, Docker and Podman"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The default approval mode is Auto, where an LLM classifier approves tool calls, and sandboxing and folder trust are both off by default",
          "Usage statistics are on by default and go to an Alibaba Cloud endpoint that the docs don't name",
          "SECURITY.md points only to an Alibaba Cloud console portal, with no response time, and the repository has no published advisories",
          "Pre-1.0 at 0.25.0, with breaking changes shipped in patch releases such as 0.23.4 and 0.24.1",
          "1,402 open issues and 334 open pull requests on 8 October 2026",
          "The Qwen OAuth free tier ended on 15 April 2026, so every run needs a paid key or a local model"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Pass `--approval-mode` on every run. The settings default is `auto`, and one docs page says headless runs default to asking, so don't rely on either",
          "Add `--max-session-turns`, `--max-wall-time` and `--max-tool-calls`. All three are unlimited by default. Exit 53 is the turn limit and 55 a budget",
          "`--yolo` doesn't turn on a sandbox. Add `--sandbox`, or on Linux set `tools.executionSandbox` with `network` set to `closed`",
          "Set `QWEN_USAGE_STATISTICS_ENABLED=false` to stop usage statistics",
          "Authenticate with `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_BASE_URL` and `OPENAI_MODEL` in CI. The browser sign-in is discontinued"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.8,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 72.4
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 88,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 69,
          "schema": 91,
          "security": 53,
          "transparency": 77
        },
        "provenanceScore": 48
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest   # or: brew install qwen-code",
        "headless": {
          "command": "qwen -p \"$TASK\" --output-format json --approval-mode auto-edit --max-session-turns 30 --max-wall-time 10m",
          "env": {
            "OPENAI_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e",
            "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "\u003cendpoint\u003e",
            "OPENAI_MODEL": "\u003cmodel\u003e",
            "QWEN_USAGE_STATISTICS_ENABLED": "false"
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/qwen-code"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Qwen team, Alibaba Group (no legal entity is named in the repository or the docs)",
        "domain": "qwenlm.github.io",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-docs/en/users/support/tos-privacy/",
        "privacy": "https://qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-docs/en/users/support/tos-privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-08",
        "notes": [
          "The project's own Terms of Service and Privacy Notice is one page. It covers usage statistics and the Chrome extension, and maps each sign-in method to the model provider's terms and privacy policy. The project publishes no separate privacy policy for the CLI, so both fields point at that page.",
          "The LICENSE file carries Copyright 2025 Google LLC and Copyright 2025 Qwen. The docs describe the project as Alibaba's, and SECURITY.md sends reports to an Alibaba Cloud console portal.",
          "The docs are on GitHub Pages. qwen.ai returned its application page for /.well-known/security.txt, so no security.txt was found. alibabacloud.com couldn't be reached from our network on 8 October 2026.",
          "The qwen.ai terms and privacy pages render only with JavaScript and weren't read."
        ],
        "score": 48
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "qwen-code",
        "versions": [
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            "registry": "github",
            "name": "QwenLM/qwen-code",
            "version": "sdk-typescript-v0.1.20",
            "released": "2026-10-15",
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            "version": "0.25.2",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:13:00.668665965Z"
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://qwenlm.github.io/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
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        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://qwenlm.github.io/qwen-code-docs/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:23:02.637345654Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "github.io",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:19:41.334156159Z"
        },
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          {
            "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QwenLM/qwen-code/main/CHANGELOG.md",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen-code.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- Security \u0026 auth, 58 against 53\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 63\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### Qwen Code (BB)\n\nGood for: Developers and CI jobs that want an open-source harness tied to no single model vendor, with run budgets and SDKs.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 69 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 83\n- Agent ergonomics, 85 against 73\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 25\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 72\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where HarnessRouter loses 5 points for them\n\nWatch for: The default approval mode is Auto, where an LLM classifier approves tool calls, and sandboxing and folder trust are both off by default\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HarnessRouter | Qwen Code | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 69 | Qwen Code +34 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 91 | Qwen Code +8 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 85 | Qwen Code +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 53 | HarnessRouter +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 25 | 60 | Qwen Code +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 88 | Qwen Code +16 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 63 | HarnessRouter +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **53.2 · D** | **72.4 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HarnessRouter | Qwen Code |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) | Alibaba (Qwen team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | API key | API 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. | Apache-2.0 |\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 |  | 2026-10-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 3.1k stars | 28k stars, 105k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |\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**Qwen Code.** Apache-2.0 with no account of its own, any OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini-compatible endpoint, and headless runs bounded by turn, tool-call and wall-time budgets with distinct exit codes. Out of the box, Auto mode lets an LLM classifier approve tool calls, with the sandbox and folder trust both off. Usage statistics are on by default.\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### Qwen Code\n\n1. Pass `--approval-mode` on every run. The settings default is `auto`, and one docs page says headless runs default to asking, so don't rely on either\n2. Add `--max-session-turns`, `--max-wall-time` and `--max-tool-calls`. All three are unlimited by default. Exit 53 is the turn limit and 55 a budget\n3. `--yolo` doesn't turn on a sandbox. Add `--sandbox`, or on Linux set `tools.executionSandbox` with `network` set to `closed`\n4. Set `QWEN_USAGE_STATISTICS_ENABLED=false` to stop usage statistics\n5. Authenticate with `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_BASE_URL` and `OPENAI_MODEL` in CI. The browser sign-in is discontinued\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, HarnessRouter or Qwen Code?\n\nQwen Code scores 72.4 (BB) on agent readiness against HarnessRouter's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. HarnessRouter leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are HarnessRouter and Qwen Code 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.). Qwen Code is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-qwen-code.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"harnessrouter\", \"b\": \"qwen-code\"}`. 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