SandBase Harness

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A local-first runtime for AI agents. Sessions, sandboxed tools, memory, credentials, audit trails, and a built-in Console — all running on your machine or in your own infrastructure.

Why

Agent SDKs handle the model loop. Production agents need more: persistent sessions, tool governance, sandbox boundaries, credential handling, memory, auditability, and a UI for humans to inspect what happened. managed-agents is that runtime layer — not a visual workflow builder and not another model SDK.

Need	What Harness provides
Run generated code safely	Local, Docker, Kubernetes, and self-hosted worker sandboxes
Inspect long-running agents	Persistent sessions, resumable event streams, audit, and replay
Control tool access	MCP toolsets, credential vaults, permission policies, and approvals
Operate any model	OpenAI, Anthropic, MiniMax, and OpenAI-compatible providers, including DeepSeek V4
Keep infrastructure yours	Local-first SQLite and file storage with no required hosted control plane

Features

• Claude Managed Agents-style /v1 API and local Console
• SQLite metadata by default for agents, sessions, environments, credential vaults, memory stores, files, skills, and API keys — local file/skill bytes in the workspace state directory
• Resumable Server-Sent Events for session replay and debugging
• One active model provider boundary configured through Settings V2
• Sandbox backends: local process, Docker (per-session containers), Kubernetes (kubectl exec/cp), self-hosted worker queue
• MCP toolsets, permission policies, built-in tools, and skill packages
• TypeScript SDK at managed-agents/sdk
• Release gate: npm run release:check

Quick Start

Requirements: Node.js 22+, npm 10+, and a model provider API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, MiniMax, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint). Docker is optional and only needed for Docker-backed sandboxes.

git clone --branch v0.3.8 --depth 1 https://github.com/sandbaseai/sandbase-harness.git
cd sandbase-harness
npm ci
npm run build
mkdir ../my-agents && cd ../my-agents
node ../sandbase-harness/dist/index.js init
node ../sandbase-harness/dist/index.js start

init writes a workspace into the directory you run it from: an agent, a skills folder, and config.yaml, whose provider reference is the ${OPENAI_API_KEY} environment variable. start serves the API and the Console on http://127.0.0.1:3000.

Two steps finish the setup, both on Settings > Setup at http://127.0.0.1:3000/dashboard:

1. The provider. Paste your API key into the provider form and save. The page then reports that the saved configuration is not active yet, so restart the runtime — stop it with Ctrl+C and run the start command again, or use the restart button. A saved setting only takes effect at startup. If your provider is not in the list, choose the OpenAI-compatible vendor and set its base URL.
2. The model. In the Agent models panel, set the model ID your provider actually serves — deepseek-chat for DeepSeek, for example. An agent carries its own model ID, so the gpt-4o that init writes is not valid for every provider, and a wrong ID fails the turn with model_not_found.

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