Omnigent
Open-source “meta-harness” that sits above the coding agents you already use and adds policies, sandboxing, composition and shared sessions. Tier A in a 2026 community tier list, blurb “strong controls, but still alpha” (both confirmed).
What it is
Omnigent orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi and custom agents so you can swap or combine harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from terminal, browser, phone or desktop. Databricks announced and open-sourced it (Databricks blog by Matei Zaharia and colleagues, 2026-06-13); the GitHub org is omnigent-ai.
Key facts
- Licence: Apache-2.0. Python codebase. Needs Python 3.12+, Git, Node.js 22+ and tmux on macOS/Linux; Windows runs natively in a degraded mode (server, web UI and SDK-based harnesses work; tmux/PTY terminal wrappers and bwrap/seatbelt sandboxing are not available).
- Status: alpha (repo badge and Databricks blog). Repo created 2026-06-11; latest release v0.17.0 on 2026-10-06 (v0.16.0 was 2026-09-29); about 10.6k stars on 2026-10-07.
- Agents/harnesses (README): Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi, Antigravity, Grok Build, Devin, plus custom agents defined in YAML; model gateways such as OpenRouter, Ollama and Azure.
- Controls: policies at server, per-agent and per-session level; shell approval gates, tool-call limits, spending budgets that pause an agent; OS-level isolation via bwrap (Linux) or seatbelt (macOS); cloud sandboxes (Modal, Daytona, Databricks, Kubernetes, E2B per the README/blog).
- Collaboration: invite teammates to a live session to view, comment and send commands; web UI, macOS desktop app, mobile via web.
- Example agents: the repo ships Polly and Debby (plus deep-research) under
examples/; the README names them as good first sessions (what each does is not re-checked, see Open items). Cloud sandboxes in the README also include Blaxel, Islo, Gensee, CoreWeave, OpenShell, Boxlite and microsandbox.
How it differs
Governance-first: where Herdr, Emdash and Jean manage terminals or worktrees for one developer, Omnigent targets teams that need approval gates, spend caps and sandboxing across mixed vendors. Related: Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenCode.
Open items
- Polly/Debby behaviour (earlier note text described worktree delegation and cross-vendor review) is not stated in the README; unverified and removed.
- The tier-list placement and blurb come from the owner’s community tier list, not a web source.
Sources (fetched 2026-10-05; re-checked 2026-10-07)
- https://github.com/omnigent-ai/omnigent
- https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-omnigent-meta-harness-combine-control-and-share-your-agents
- https://api.github.com/repos/omnigent-ai/omnigent and /releases (2026-10-07: created_at, Apache-2.0, stars, v0.17.0)
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omnigent-ai/omnigent/main/README.md (2026-10-07: alpha badge, harnesses, sandboxes, Windows, prerequisites)
- https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/06/omnigent-open-source-ai-agent-framework/ (search listing only, not opened)