Observed arrival · 2026-08-23
UHP: A Protocol for Driving Complete Agent Harnesses
The Unified Harness Protocol is a draft open standard for running agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes through one interoperable HTTP interface.
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UHP treats an agent task as a job rather than a single model completion, covering sessions, streaming, files, cancellation, and errors. It also publishes OpenAPI 3.1 and JSON Schema definitions alongside a 52-check conformance suite—an unusually concrete attempt to make the agent-infrastructure layer interchangeable.
The Unified Harness Protocol is a draft open standard for running agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes through one interoperable HTTP interface.
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