A quick resource center to get you started with exploring concepts related to Agent Harness and Memory

New to agents?

  1. Hugging Face Agents Course- free, certified, hands-on. The best on-ramp. → https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course
  2. OpenAI: A Practical Guide to Building Agents- what an agent actually is: model + tools + instructions. → https://openai.com/business/guides-and-resources/a-practical-guide-to-building-ai-agents/
  3. Anthropic: Building Effective Agents- workflows vs agents, and why simple beats complex. → https://www.anthropic.com/research/building-effective-agents
  4. Anthropic: Effective Context Engineering for AI Agents the core skill: managing a finite context window. → https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
  5. Mem0 Quickstart- give an agent memory in a few lines of code. → https://docs.mem0.ai
  6. Agent Memory, hands-on- 30 runnable notebooks on memory techniques. → https://github.com/NirDiamant/Agent_Memory_Techniques

The two workshop stacks

Workshop Stack Where to look
Agent Harness Engineering (Saurabh) Google ADK https://github.com/google/adk-python · https://google.github.io/adk-docs
Memory & Context Engineering (Jitendra) Mem0 + OpenClaw https://docs.mem0.ai · https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

Agent Harnesses

Harness What it is Link
OpenClaw Local-first personal agent gateway: channels, skills, plugins https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
Hermes Agent Nous Research's MIT agent runtime: persistent memory + skills https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com
Google ADK Code-first framework with real built-in context management https://github.com/google/adk-python
Claude Code Anthropic's agentic coding harness https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/claude-code
OpenHands Full autonomous dev environment: browse, code, test, open PRs https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands
SWE-agent Minimal coding agent; pioneered the agent-computer interface https://github.com/SWE-agent/SWE-agent
smolagents Hugging Face minimalist framework; agents write Python, not JSON https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents
Goose Block's extensible agent, MCP-first https://github.com/block/goose
LangGraph Stateful graph runtime; durable, checkpointed agents https://github.com/langchain-ai/langgraph

Memory- Mem0

Resource What Link
Mem0 Universal memory layer: vector + graph + key-value, self-editing https://github.com/mem0ai/mem0
Docs + quickstart Add memory in a few lines https://docs.mem0.ai
Mem0 paper Production-ready long-term memory (co-authored by Taranjeet & Deshraj) https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19413
memory-benchmarks Open evaluation suite for memory systems https://github.com/mem0ai/memory-benchmarks

The interop layer