Is Better Harness safe to use?

Better Harness has an HVTrust score of 79.1/100 (Grade B), ranked #19 of 351 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Better Harness?

Better Harness scores 79.1/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 2.3k GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Skills.

Better Harness

QoderAI/better-harness

An open-source Harness Engineering platform for coding agents—define harnesses as code, run controlled experiments, inspect evidence, and compare outcomes. Turn task evidence into actionable team and organization insights.

Agent Skills JavaScript Listed MIT

Is Better Harness safe? Strong public trust posture, backed by multiple independent signals.

OSSF Scorecard 4.5 / 10

Provenance Attested

Signed commits 10%

Last push 2d ago

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In detail: Better Harness scores 79.1/100 (Grade B), ranked #19 of 351 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: its packages ship with cryptographic provenance; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 4.5/10; 10% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-24. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Better Harness compares in Agent Skills

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Better Harness’s 79.1.

Where the 79.1 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average

79.1 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Better Harness Agent Skills average (351 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

13.6 / 25

5.5 above avg 8.1

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

18.0 / 18

6.6 above avg 11.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

12.3 / 17

in line with avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

19.9 / 20

5.7 above avg 14.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

11.6 / 20

2.6 above avg 9.0

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Increase the share of verified signed commits for clearer maintainer identity.

Recent Changes

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Provenance Added

Package provenance attestation detected

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 4.5/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Increase signed commits Raise the share of verified-signed commits to make maintainer identity and release history easier to trust.

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80.7

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#19

In Agent Skills

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade B reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage B is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (3 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-09-26

Activity & Reach

Stars

2.3k

Forks

185

Last Push

2026-09-24

2 days ago

Commits (4 wk)

261

Downloads (7d)

410

npm

HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▲1

was #20

Analysis

Activity Inputs

80.7 / 100

StarsRepository reach

20.2 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

24.7 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

25 / 25

CommunityFork signal

10.6 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

Verified

npm attestation

OSSF Scorecard

4.5 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 25, 2026

Signed Commits

10%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 0

CI-Tests 7

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 1

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 10

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 0

Packaging 10

Pinned-Dependencies 4

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases 0

Token-Permissions 10

Vulnerabilities 0

Common questions about Better Harness

Public supply-chain signals for Better Harness are strong: it has multiple independent trust indicators in place. This does not replace your own security review, but Better Harness carries less obvious unverified-evidence risk than projects with thin signals.

Does Better Harness publish package provenance?

Yes. Better Harness's package releases carry build provenance attestations, which cryptographically link the published package back to its source repository and CI workflow.

Does Better Harness have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Better Harness has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 4.5/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is Better Harness actively maintained?

Actively maintained. The repository was pushed to within the last 2 day(s).

What license does Better Harness use?

Better Harness ships under MIT. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are Better Harness's commits signed?

10% of the last 100 commits to Better Harness are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

None detected

No MCP server signal detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

medium confidence

1 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Anthropic

Credential signal: No explicit API-key/config marker detected.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

high confidence

Match

Published package metadata matches the tracked repo

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to Better Harness's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Provenance Added

Package provenance attestation detected

Maintain Better Harness?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Better Harness from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: Anthropic

2026-09-23

Provenance Added

Package provenance attestation detected

2026-09-23

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → B

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank rose 224 spots (#244 → #20)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 46.9pts (32.1 → 79.0)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #244

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-12

Grade Changed

Trust grade A → B

2026-09-01

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 5.4/10

2026-09-01

Grade Changed

Trust grade B → A

2026-09-01

Rank Moved

Rank rose 12 spots (#17 → #5)

2026-09-01

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 11.5pts (70.7 → 82.2)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#5 → #15)

2026-08-11

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #3

GitHub → npm: @qoder-ai/better-harness

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