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Omnigent

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Ranked 3 of 10 agent harnesses by recommenders

Lets you manage sessions and workflows across multiple AI models, providers and agent harnesses from one place, with ACP support. The most common caveat is that it is still alpha.

Lets you manage sessions and workflows across multiple AI models, providers and agent harnesses from one place, with ACP support. The most common caveat is that it is still alpha.

11 people gave an opinion

recommend it
10
criticize it
1
approval share
91%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 4 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: not recommended
  4. February 2026: not recommended
  5. March 2026: not recommended
  6. April 2026: not recommended
  7. May 2026: not recommended
  8. June 2026: recommended
  9. July 2026: recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)

Why it carries the badge

  • 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
  • 10 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.

Why people recommend it

Each mark is one comment

  • One place for sessions across providers

    “The main draw for me is that I can keep my sessions in one database regardless of the model/provider I use.”

    Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%”

    “It's a single pane for you to work across multiple sessions across multiple providers and harnesses.”

    Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents”
  • Search all conversations in one place

    “The main draw for me is that I can keep my sessions in one database regardless of the model/provider I use.”

    Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%”

    “It's a single pane for you to work across multiple sessions across multiple providers and harnesses.”

    Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents”

    “I can see this being useful if only for the fact I can search all my conversations”

    Comment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents”
  • Multi-harness workflows with ACP support

    “Omnigent has out of the box ACP support and it's trivial to use that to add first-class support for any harness out there.”

    Comment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI”

    “check out omnigent for building workflows across multiple harnesses”

    Comment from 21 Jun 2026 in “Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8”

What people warn about

Each mark is one comment

  • Still alpha

    “it's still alpha at present”

    Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%”

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.

Omnigent compared with 4 alternatives
ProductRecommendCriticizeApprovalMonthsOwnedBadge
Hermes Agent by Nous Research1293280%101 mo3 ownersApproved
Munder Difflin111052%1——
OmnigentThis page10191%4—Approved
Raven8373%3——
Gambit agent harness80100%2——
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What people said

8 of the 12 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“Omnigent has out of the box ACP support and it's trivial to use that to add first-class support for any harness out there.”

RecommendsComment from 29 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI”

“The main draw for me is that I can keep my sessions in one database regardless of the model/provider I use.”

RecommendsComment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%”

“it's still alpha at present”

MixedComment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%”

“I don't use new products whose websites don't resize properly on mobile”

CriticizesComment from 15 Jul 2026 in “Grok Build Is OSS”

“check out omnigent for building workflows across multiple harnesses”

RecommendsComment from 21 Jun 2026 in “Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8”

“The things it adds are exactly that machinery.”

RecommendsComment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents”

“It's a single pane for you to work across multiple sessions across multiple providers and harnesses.”

RecommendsComment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents”

“I can see this being useful if only for the fact I can search all my conversations”

RecommendsComment from 13 Jun 2026 in “Omnigent: A Meta-Harness to Combine, Control and Share Your Agents”

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