Lightspeed (smartcomputer-ai)
Shares rank 8 of 10 agent harnesses by recommenders
Open source agent harness that people call battery-included, with a clear readme. Main caveat: no OpenAI API support.
Open source agent harness that people call battery-included, with a clear readme. Main caveat: no OpenAI API support.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No OpenAI API support
“no OpenAI API support (just Anthropic + openai.com) means I can’t use it for either.”
Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “Grok Bot”
Other agent harnesses people recommend
The four most recommended other agent harnesses, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes Agent by Nous Research | 129 | 32 | 80% | 10 | 1 mo3 owners | Approved |
| Munder Difflin | 11 | 10 | 52% | 1 | — | — |
| Omnigent | 10 | 1 | 91% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Raven | 8 | 3 | 73% | 3 | — | — |
| Lightspeed (smartcomputer-ai)This page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“loved picking up boards in person”
“You wrote your readme yourself. It shows. So refreshing and i was able to finish it too.”
“Your project seems way better than the stuff they built, nice work.”
“I'm betting on this with my open source project, Lightspeed”
“no OpenAI API support (just Anthropic + openai.com) means I can’t use it for either.”
“My harness is decidedly not just another agent SDK, but rather a battery-included product.”
“Lightspeed (also garbage)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.