{"slug": "show-hn-a-company-running-in-an-ai-harness", "title": "Show HN: A company running in an AI harness", "summary": "An open-source project called Restless, presented as a Show HN submission, runs a simulated company inside an AI harness in which five agents — including a product strategist and a claims auditor — plan and execute work against a shared identity of approved facts, voice and visual language, and flag artifacts that used a fact when it changes. The demo cites FrankenSurf, an open-source project with 100 GitHub stars, whose code, releases and marketing are written by a Restless company; as of 23 October 2026 the team had generated 24 pieces of work, with 13 done, 7 stopped and replaced by a better version, and 2 waiting, and only three items reached the human operator in four days. The harness runs on a persistent Linux machine with files, Git, a browser and a desktop, and lets each agent use a different model from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Moonshot, Z.ai or any OpenAI-compatible gateway.", "body_md": "Approved facts, voice and visual language travel with the work. Change a fact and Restless flags what used the old one.\n\nBrandVersion 4 · this morning\n\nTruth\n\nLast Light is a two-player co-op game.\n\nThe demo is free to play.\n\nLaunch price $12\n\nVoice\n\nWarm and plain. Never hype.\n\nTalk about the players, not the studio.\n\nVisual language\n\nWarm light, rough seas.\n\nHopeful, never horror.\n\nCulture\n\nPlaytest before we polish.\n\nDisagree in the brief, not in Discord.\n\nWork that uses this identity\n\nStore pageCurrent\n\nPress kitCurrent\n\nPlaytest invitationCurrent\n\nCorrect the launch price to $9\n\nQuality is part of the brief\n\nChoose Fast, Thorough, Exceptional or Frontier for the company or for one outcome. It sets how deep agents go.\n\nFastThoroughExceptionalFrontier\n\nIndependent review and another revision when it helps.\n\nInvestigation\n\n3 of 4\n\nReview passes\n\n3 of 4\n\nModel spend\n\n3 of 4\n\nA real company computer\n\nA persistent Linux machine with files, Git, a browser and a desktop you can take over.\n\ncompany@lantern-studio\n\nup 41d 07:12:00\n\ngame/\n\ndocs/brief.md\n\ntools/playtest.sh\n\n.git/\n\npress/kit.pdf\n\n22:0002:0006:00now\n\nInesTheoInesMarlowOmaryouPriyaInes\n\nSessions end. Models change. The machine, its files and its history stay.\n\nIllustrative scenes with the README’s example business. The capabilities are real; read how they work in the repository.\n\nBring your people.Bring any model.\n\nCodex, Claude, any API provider or gateway. Each agent can use a different model.\n\nTheoResearchGoogle GeminiMarlowAccountable leadClaudeInesBuild and QACodex\n\nChoose a seat, then a provider.\n\nCodex\n\nClaude\n\nOpenAI\n\nAnthropic\n\nGoogle Gemini\n\nOpenRouter\n\nGroq\n\nMistral\n\nDeepSeek\n\nxAI\n\nMoonshot\n\nZ.ai\n\nAny OpenAI-compatible gateway\n\nIntelligence\n\nChatGPT / CodexSigned in\n\nClaude CodeSigned in\n\nOpenRouterAPI key\n\nCompany defaultUsed by agents without an overrideChatGPT / Codexcompany default\n\nTheo AIresearchGoogle Geminichosen per agentChange\n\nMarlow AIaccountable leadClaudechosen per agentChange\n\nInes AIbuild and qaCodexchosen per agentChange\n\nThat was a story.This one is real.\n\nFrankenSurf is an open-source project with 100 GitHub stars. A Restless company\nwrites its code, ships its releases and markets it. Here it is in the product, as it stood on 23 October 2026.\n\n01I said what I want.Exec turned it into three goals with owners: launch, daily use, a ChatGPT connector.\n\n02The team plans its own work.24 pieces so far. 13 done, 7 stopped and replaced by a better version, 2 waiting.\n\n03Five agents, each with a job.The product strategist leads the team. The claims auditor checks every number FrankenSurf says in public before it goes out.\n\n04Three things reached me.In four days, out of everything above. Each arrived prepared: what happened, why it’s mine, one call to make.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-company-running-in-an-ai-harness", "canonical_source": "https://restless.run/", "published_at": "2026-11-11 02:06:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 02:23:00.159772+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Restless", "FrankenSurf", "GitHub", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Google Gemini", "OpenRouter", "Codex"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-company-running-in-an-ai-harness", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-company-running-in-an-ai-harness.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-company-running-in-an-ai-harness.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-a-company-running-in-an-ai-harness.jsonld"}}