AgentrovevsDeepSeek Harness
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Agentrove
Mng-dev-ai · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.32 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.3
- Longevity
- 5.3
“There is a native iOS app, so you can now supervise a Docker container from a beach and call it a working holiday.”
DeepSeek Harness
DeepSeek · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.23 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.3
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 6.8
- Longevity
- 6.0
“Ships a PowerShell tool plugin, so the agent can now break things on Windows with the same confidence.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Agentrove | DeepSeek Harness |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, sandbox | local, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | YesFiles are changed by the ACP agent running in the workspace; Agentrove supplies the editor, diffs and sandbox. | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | YesEach workspace gets its own Docker sandbox, or a host sandbox if you prefer. | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode | DeepSeek, providers via pi-ai route |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 330 | 241,869 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Agentrove | DeepSeek Harness | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.5 | Agentrove — Pick it if your team has settled on no single agent and wants all seven behind one door; pick the vendor's own app if you already made the choice. |
| El Crítico | 5.5 | 5.8 | DeepSeek Harness — Two hundred thousand stars on a developer preview whose README promises compatibility-breaking changes in capital letters, which is a star count without a stable release. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.0 | Agentrove — Isolation is structural rather than advisory: each workspace receives its own Docker or host sandbox, and parallel work runs in separate git worktrees instead of one shared checkout. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 6.3 | DeepSeek Harness — A lab-owned harness with no price tag is a distribution channel for DeepSeek tokens, and the pi-ai route is the hedge that lets it survive if the lab's own model falls behind. |
| La Jefa | 5.8 | 5.8 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 7.0 | 6.8 | Agentrove — Apache-2.0 and self-hosted, and the bundled MCP server exposes send_message, get_messages, list_models and list_personas, so the whole instance is scriptable from outside. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.