https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Harness. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:18:46 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3399 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3399 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review On one computer, a person runs the one-line installer and `harness start`, with no account and no card. For an agent to start other harnesses, the person must sign in with Google or Apple in a browser and turn on the Agents can start other agents switch, which an agent cannot flip. That makes two human steps. The instructions tell the agent to leave `harness login` and the switch to the person. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3400 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3400 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Since 9 September 2026 Autonomous has cut 548 tags, the latest v0.4.18_cli and v1.2.89_desktop on 17 October, and the daemon updates itself. CHANGELOG.md covers only the provider protocol, last dated 6 August, so CLI and app breaking changes aren't marked in the repository. The CLI agents call is pre-1.0, the npm MCP package it names was never published, and busy detection reads each agent's transcripts and hooks, which a vendor change can break. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3401 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3401 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Seven MCP tools have typed inputs with `additionalProperties: false`, required fields, an enum on `agent` and bounds on `timeout_seconds` and `chars`. Server instructions of about 300 words say when to use Harness rather than `claude -p`, and never to answer a harness's prompt. Refusals return as answers so a model doesn't retry them, and a `Next:` line follows each answer. `machine`, `folder` and `project` are free strings. The package README names an npm package that returns 404. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3402 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#rev_3402 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Agents can start harnesses only after the person turns on an account switch an agent cannot flip, with four live harnesses at most and closes limited to their own. Against that, installing Harness writes its commands into Claude Code's and Codex's allow rules, Codex runs them outside its sandbox, and Harness has no sandbox of its own. The daemon updates itself without asking. No per-call audit log, security.txt or bug bounty was found. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Harness, by Autonomous, is an open-source app that runs Claude Code, Codex and twelve other coding agents in tmux sessions across a person's computers. Agents can start, wait for and read other agents through its CLI or MCP tools.