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omnigent

A meta-harness for all your AI agents. Omnigent provides a common layer over Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and the agents you write yourself: swap or combine harnesses without rewriting, keep them in check with policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time on the same live session, from any device.

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Aug 2026

Omnigent puts one layer over all your AI coding agents so switching between them stops being a rewrite. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi, and custom agents defined in YAML run through a single harness with shared policy controls, and you can mix several in one session or swap mid-conversation. Agent choice becomes a config line. Apache 2.0.

Access has broadened past the terminal: browser, phone, and desktop all reach the same session, which is the feature that matters when an agent has been grinding for twenty minutes and you walked away from your desk. Install is a single curl command, or Python 3.12+ manually. Run the server locally, or deploy it with Docker Compose to Render, Railway, Fly.io, Modal, or Cloudflare.

The sandbox story is the other reason to look. Agent execution can be pushed into Modal, Daytona, E2B, or Kubernetes instead of running against your filesystem, with credentials hidden from the agent. Solo developers running two or three agents get the policy controls alone worth the setup. Small and medium teams get the most from shared sessions and remote access. Large teams should read the policy model closely first.

The catch is that a meta-harness inherits every underlying harness's quirks and adds its own. Each agent still has features the abstraction does not fully expose, and when something breaks you have two layers to debug. The project moves fast with a large open issue queue, so pin your version.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

fully free

What's Free

All of it. Apache 2.0. Multi-agent orchestration, policy controls, the security sandbox, real-time collaboration, and access from terminal, browser, phone, and desktop. No paid tier and no hosted commercial offering from the project.

Deployment Cost

  • Local: $0. Run the server on your own machine.
  • Self-hosted cloud: Docker Compose deploys to Render, Railway, Fly.io, Hugging Face Spaces, Modal, Cloudflare, or Databricks. Expect $5-20/mo on a small instance.

The Real Cost

Two meters, and neither belongs to Omnigent. First, the agents themselves: you still pay Anthropic, OpenAI, or whoever for every token the underlying agent burns, and running multiple agents in one session multiplies that rather than dividing it. Second, optional cloud sandboxes (Modal, Daytona, E2B) bill per second of execution.

The $0 Path

Run the server locally, sandbox to a local container, and pay only your existing agent subscriptions. That covers most solo and small-team use with no new bill at all.

The Real Consideration

Version churn, not money. This is a fast-moving project with a large open issue and pull request queue. Pin your version and read release notes before upgrading.

Free and Apache 2.0 with no paid tier. Your bill is the underlying agent subscriptions you already pay, plus per-second charges if you opt into cloud sandboxes.

What to do by team size

Solo
free; run it locally and pay only your existing agent subscriptions
Small team
free; the shared session and remote access are the real draw
Medium team
free; self-host on a small instance and use the policy controls
Large team
free, but read the policy model closely before you standardize on it
Self-hosting ops:moderate

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Adoption23/30
Maintenance25/25
Community7/20
License15/15
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