Harness

What it does

Harness is standalone desktop apps that talk to any AI agent through localhost APIs. Not a plugin, not a platform. Just apps on your machine. The agent reads your kanban board, respects your "don't do" list, sends you alerts, leaves async questions, and checks how much time it has left. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or anything that can make HTTP requests. Drop a markdown file in your project and the agent knows the apps exist. No accounts, no cloud, no tracking.

Desktop apps that sit between you and your AI agent. No settings, no accounts, no complexity. A kanban board both you and the agent can see. Cards move through Backlog, Active, Review, and Done. Set dependencies between cards. The agent reads the board, creates cards, moves them forward — and knows what's blocked. Drag cards between columns or let the agent do it via the API. A built-in dependency graph shows what's ready and what's waiting. Timeline view tracks everything that happened. A shared list between you and the agent. Two columns — things to do, and things not to do. The agent can read both columns but can only write to the first. The "don't" list is yours alone — guardrails the…from harnessapps.com

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  Hi HN, I'm Zach, one of the co-founders of Adam (https://adam.new). We've been on HN twice before with text-to-CAD/3D experiments [1][2]. The honest takeaway from those threads: prompt-to-3D model web apps are fun, but serious mechanical engineers don't want a black box that spits out an STL. They want help inside the CAD tool they already use, with full visibility and control over the feature tree. So we built that. Adam is now a harness that integrates directly with your CAD. It reads your parts, understands the existing feature tree, and edits it for you agentically. We are…

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