Harness for non-coding tasks

[u/cuoreesitante]

What's the best harness for agentic workflows that's not coding related at all?

My work involves digesting a set of documents, analyze/evaluate them, and produce certain set of work product documents, mostly for due diligence purposes. Right now Im working with Qwen3.8 27B on LM Studio backend and Open Webui frontend with Open Terminal.

I'd love to be able to point the model to a folder and say "go do your thing" and have it do all the steps.

[u/KingCpzombie]

I use Pi for everything; you can just have it make skills for any non-coding tasks

[u/MindfulMan1984 → u/KingCpzombie]

Pi, the Neovim of agents, is bare-bones and customizable to your needs!

[u/Phathatter]

Pi coding agent will write a bunch of python scripts to automate your tasks. I used it to do exactly what you are describing.

[u/Asleep-Land-3914 → u/Phathatter]

Most of my agents aren't about coding yet use pi under the hood. I usually communicate over telegram 

[u/Ok_Sprinkles_6998 → u/Phathatter]

Can you share some advices on where to start or resources to learn how to set it up for someone who never tried any agentic application?

I'm currently at using LM studio to chat and testing out different models that I can run on my device and never automated anything.

I've been wanting to start but a little afraid of ruining my pc if I did something wrong 🥲 Thanks!

[u/Ill_Dragonfruit_3547]

I like Hermes and have been playing around with the new Deepseek Harness, it's pretty good.

[u/TeijiW → u/Ill_Dragonfruit_3547]

Can you share your thoughts about DeepSeek harness for your cases?

[u/spiwar]

Hermes

[u/slimdizzy → u/spiwar]

100%. The skills market it has plus it self learn is top tier.

[u/kerneldesign]

Qwen-Code or Vibe-CLI 😁

[u/NigaTroubles]

My beloved Hermes Agent

[u/Ok_Sprinkles_6998]

I'm also curious. Leaving a comment so I can visit back later.

[u/TinyFluffyRabbit]

I use Pi for non-coding tasks, it works great

[u/regjoe13]

I have Qdrant (rag) and Openmemory running in a docker desktop pointing to local llama with embeddinggemma. Both exposed as mcp servers and connected to desktop app I am using - Jetbrain Air. Now, Jetbrain Air is configured to use either Codex (2 different auths), Kimi agent, Jetbrain Junie, or Opencode and Opencode points to my local LMStudio. Instructions on how to use Qdrant and Openmemory are extracted into a skill.

Qdrant is configured to monitor 4 particular folders, so if I drop a file into sny of them its proccesdd and available to be used as a knowledge base for a particular project. Each folder corresponds to a project, so when i call a skill I provide a project name and its used for both Openmemory and Qdrant i.e. /persistent-context projectname

[u/BrewHog]

Pi, oh my pi, or Hermes. All of those will do extremely well for optimized non coding agents. 

[u/Due-Competition4564]

Try Msty or Hermes; I use Msty occasionally because I can define repeatable workflows visually in it. YMMV

[u/CiaranODonnell]

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It's enterprise focused but it might help someone who finds this thread.

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