Custom or General Purpose Harness? Wrong Question.
Why the real AI agent harness choice is not custom versus general-purpose, but closed versus composable, transparent, and safely supervised.
Agent Zero Articles
Articles, guides, research, and practical insights from Agent Zero.
Agent Zero v2.5: Global Model Presets, Launcher Host Access, & LaTeX Chat
v2.5 unifies model presets, adds LaTeX chat rendering and Launcher-owned host access, expands the Editor, hardens Desktop sessions, and improves runtime, extension, and WebUI reliability.
Agent Zero v2.4: Crash-Safe Chats, Gemini Orchestration, & Interface Controls
v2.4 protects chat data and agent loops, expands orchestration and provider choices, adds responsive interface controls, and makes terminal, command, OAuth, preset, and self-update behavior more dependable.
Agent Zero v2.3: Faster Browser Streaming, Orchestration, & Goals
v2.3 delivers faster, more resilient Browser streaming, flexible per-chat and host-browser controls, three new built-in workflow plugins, cleaner skill and project context, and broad provider, tool, and WebUI reliability improvements.
Agent Zero v2.2: In-Chat Model Setup, Streaming Fallbacks, & UI Polish
v2.2 smooths first-run model setup, makes provider choices more explicit, hardens streamed fallback behavior, and polishes everyday chat, memory, and WebUI workflows.
Agent Zero v2.1: Responses Fallbacks, MCP Images, & Reliability Fixes
v2.1 is a focused reliability release for provider compatibility, multimodal MCP output, streamed tool parsing, message replay, backups, and skills tooling.
Agent Zero v2.0: Parallel Tools, Responses API, & MCP Redesign
v2.0 is a major release focused on stronger tool orchestration, native model transport, richer project configuration, safer skill workflows, and a more polished WebUI for daily agent work.
Agent Zero v1.20: Document Query Reuse, OAuth Slots, & Editor Polish
v1.20 makes repeated document queries faster, improves file and folder attachment workflows, tightens browser and connector behavior, adds more flexible OAuth model slots, and polishes Editor and File Browser controls.
Agent Zero v1.19: Remote Control, Document Query, & Desktop Reliability
v1.19 expands Remote Control connectivity, turns Document Query into a standalone plugin, makes screenshots durable in chat history, improves structured desktop control, and tightens coding, memory, OAuth, UI, and self-update behavior.
One markdown file fixes AI coding's biggest problem
How DOX uses hierarchical AGENTS.md files to give AI coding agents durable, project-wide context with no runtime or dependencies.
It's Plugins All the Way Down
Why Agent Zero implements core capabilities as replaceable plugins—and how users can override, extend, and verify the agent.
Agent Zero v1.18: Skills Controls, MCP Media, & Browser DOM Capture
v1.18 is a focused polish release for skills, MCP media handling, complex browser pages, chat input sizing, and self-update reliability.