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Databricks Open Sources Omnigent to Put a "Meta-Harness" Above AI Agents

Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia and Kasey Uhlenhuth open-sourced Omnigent, an Apache 2.0 alpha project described as a "meta harness" for AI agents. The tool sits above existing agent harnesses like Claude Code and Codex, making them composable, controllable, and shareable through a single interface.

read1 min publishedJun 13, 2026

Matei Zaharia (@matei zaharia), Databricks' co founder and CTO, and Kasey Uhlenhuth are open sourcing Omnigent, an Apache 2.0 alpha project that Databricks describes as a "meta harness" for AI agents. The pitch is not another model wrapper. Omnigent is meant to sit above the agent harnesses engineers already use, including Claude Code, Codex, the Pi agent and custom agents, and make them composable, controllable and shareable through one interface. Zaharia said in an X thread that Databricks ...

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