Show HN: A company running in an AI harness

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.

Approved facts, voice and visual language travel with the work. Change a fact and Restless flags what used the old one. BrandVersion 4 · this morning Truth Last Light is a two-player co-op game. The demo is free to play. Launch price $12 Voice Warm and plain. Never hype. Talk about the players, not the studio. Visual language Warm light, rough seas. Hopeful, never horror. Culture Playtest before we polish. Disagree in the brief, not in Discord. Work that uses this identity Store pageCurrent Press kitCurrent Playtest invitationCurrent Correct the launch price to $9 Quality is part of the brief Choose Fast, Thorough, Exceptional or Frontier for the company or for one outcome. It sets how deep agents go. FastThoroughExceptionalFrontier Independent review and another revision when it helps. Investigation 3 of 4 Review passes 3 of 4 Model spend 3 of 4 A real company computer A persistent Linux machine with files, Git, a browser and a desktop you can take over. company@lantern-studio up 41d 07:12:00 game/ docs/brief.md tools/playtest.sh .git/ press/kit.pdf 22:0002:0006:00now InesTheoInesMarlowOmaryouPriyaInes Sessions end. Models change. The machine, its files and its history stay. Illustrative scenes with the README’s example business. The capabilities are real; read how they work in the repository. Bring your people.Bring any model. Codex, Claude, any API provider or gateway. Each agent can use a different model. TheoResearchGoogle GeminiMarlowAccountable leadClaudeInesBuild and QACodex Choose a seat, then a provider. Codex Claude OpenAI Anthropic Google Gemini OpenRouter Groq Mistral DeepSeek xAI Moonshot Z.ai Any OpenAI-compatible gateway Intelligence ChatGPT / CodexSigned in Claude CodeSigned in OpenRouterAPI key Company defaultUsed by agents without an overrideChatGPT / Codexcompany default Theo AIresearchGoogle Geminichosen per agentChange Marlow AIaccountable leadClaudechosen per agentChange Ines AIbuild and qaCodexchosen per agentChange That was a story.This one is real. FrankenSurf is an open-source project with 100 GitHub stars. A Restless company writes its code, ships its releases and markets it. Here it is in the product, as it stood on 23 October 2026. 01I said what I want.Exec turned it into three goals with owners: launch, daily use, a ChatGPT connector. 02The team plans its own work.24 pieces so far. 13 done, 7 stopped and replaced by a better version, 2 waiting. 03Five 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. 04Three things reached me.In four days, out of everything above. Each arrived prepared: what happened, why it’s mine, one call to make.