Paweł Huryn releases Mini Harness, a 1,200-line open-source coding harness
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Paweł Huryn releases Mini Harness, an open-source coding harness of about 1,200 lines of Python that he built as an alternative to Claude Code.
He says it includes /goal mode, permissions with auto mode, skills, MCP servers, and Anthropic's server-side compaction.
In a Terminal-Bench 2.0 chart Huryn shares, Mini Harness passed 9.2 of 10 hidden tests with Claude Haiku 5.5 at high effort, ahead of seven other harnesses. The chart is Huryn's own report, and the project is hosted on GitHub at phuryn/mini-harness.
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Paweł Huryn@PawelHurynXPaweł Huryn releases Mini Harness, a 1,200-line open-source coding harnessAIPaweł Huryn introduces Mini Harness, an open-source coding harness of about 1,200 lines of Python that he built as a Claude Code alternative. He says it includes /goal mode, permissions with auto mode, skills, MCP servers, and Anthropic's server-side compaction. In a Terminal-Bench 2.0 chart he shares, Mini Harness passed 9.2 of 10 hidden tests with Claude Haiku 5.5 at high effort, ahead of seven other harnesses.

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