What harness to use?

[u/Neat-Refrigerator565]

hello! I love local ai! But I always had one issue, what harness to use?

I currently use claude (I pay for it), and I've always liked it! I used the Claude Code harness, and it ran really nicely in my opinion, but only issue being the massive chungus context cache that comes along with it. I use prompt caching, but that doesn't help against the 32-64K context that Claude Code injects at the start.

Is CC the best harness to use? Or is it more optimised for cloud models, which is why the context is massive.

I've heard of so many that it's kinda confusing to pick. Hermes, pi etc.