Observed arrival · 2026-09-29
Karya, the coding agent that asks first
An open-source Go harness for running a coding agent in the terminal, with approval gates for file edits and shell commands.
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- Engineers who want approval-gated terminal coding agents
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- Reads run automatically; edits and shell commands pause for approval, with shell execution described as sandboxed and network-off by default.
Field notes
The page describes a sequential agent loop with one request in flight, plus a provider interface that can be switched using HARNESS_MODEL. It says sessions use append-only JSONL logs keyed to the Git remote and record tokens, cost, and duration per turn. Shell isolation is described separately for macOS and Linux; these are site-stated capabilities, not independently verified here.
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