AgorvsDeepSeek Harness
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Agor
Preset · Agent harness
MCP
Panel
6.32 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 5.5
“Multiplayer with live cursors, so your colleagues can now watch you argue with a robot in real time.”
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 | Agor | DeepSeek Harness |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local, sandbox | local, sandbox |
| Platforms | macos, linux, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | YesExecution is configurable as trusted local, a fail-closed sandbox, or delegated to an external runner; Docker is one documented install path. | Yes |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | via managed agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) | DeepSeek, providers via pi-ai route |
| Bring your own model | YesAgor ships no model of its own; the model comes from whichever agent CLI or SDK the session is configured to use. | 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 | No | Yes |
| License | BSL-1.1 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 1,420 | 241,869 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Agor | DeepSeek Harness | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.5 | DeepSeek Harness — Pick DeepSeek Harness if you already pay DeepSeek by the token and want a local web UI with plan mode and subagents; pick pi if you want a smaller harness you can read in an afternoon. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 5.8 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.0 | Agor — Sessions form an explicit genealogy: forking copies context forward, spawning a subsession starts a fresh window, and the distinction is a real design decision. |
| La Inversora | 6.3 | 6.3 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 6.3 | 5.8 | Agor — Self-hosted with role-based access scoped to branches, which is a real access-control answer, and there is no unattended execution, so it never becomes a pipeline. |
| El Hacker | 6.3 | 6.8 | DeepSeek Harness — MIT, an MCP client, and a plugin contract I can write my own tool against, but the only routes are DeepSeek and pi-ai, so my local box has no first-class door. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.