ormus agent harness · field guide

The harness field guide

A model answers. A harness is everything around it that lets the answer become an action on your machine, under your rules, with an off switch. These pages teach the vessel piece by piece, using a real one you can read: the Ormus Agent Harness.


01 · start here

Anatomy of a harness

Ten layers, forty organs. Click any piece for what it is, the scar that made it necessary, the requirements it must satisfy, and the files that implement it. Includes a self-check mode.

02 · the craft

Demystifying harness engineering

What a harness engineer actually decides, the eight questions every harness must answer, the myths, and the discipline that keeps the thing simple enough to own.

03 · the words

Glossary

Every term on these pages in plain language, with a pointer to where it lives in the code. Searchable.

04 · the field

Comparison matrix

Ours against hermes-agent, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, rakazo and gbrain on stack and capability. Every row explains why the dimension matters and how to read the cells.

05 · the honest list

What is missing

Live gap view generated from the repo at each deploy: partial and missing capabilities, what we refuse on purpose, open issues and pull requests, stamped with the tip.


Reading order

  1. Anatomy first, in Learn mode. Walk the ten layers top to bottom once.
  2. Engineering for the questions behind the layers. Come back to the anatomy when a question names an organ.
  3. Glossary whenever a word stops you. Each entry links back to its organ.
  4. Comparison once the rows mean something, then Gaps to see what is still open. Every organ on the anatomy links to its source, its test, and its doc in the repo.

Sources: docs/architecture.md, docs/synthesis.md, docs/trajectory.md, docs/comparison-matrix.md, NETER.md in the repo. Nothing on this site tracks you.