Omnigent: Open-Source Meta-Harness for AI Agents | Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia · Databricks · Aug 10, 2026
Databricks CTO launches Omnigen, an open-source meta-harness orchestrating multiple AI agents with shared governance.
“we built this layer that kind of wraps existing agents and lets you easily work with many of them, whether you're composing many agents to solve the same task, or you're trying to control them more centrally”
[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer
Matei Zaharia · Latent Space Blog · Jun 25, 2026
Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia is betting on Omnigent, an open-source pluggable meta-harness architecture for coding and knowledge-work agents.
“some open source architecture that looks like this will probably win, if only because it is currently being independently rediscvoered at 1000 AI native shops”
Introducing Omnigent: an open meta-harness – Matei Zaharia, Co-founder and CTO, Databricks
Matei Zaharia · Databricks · Jun 24, 2026
Databricks launched Omnigent, an open-source 'meta-harness' layer on top of the agentic stack to make agents effective at scale.
“we call it a meta harness of harnesses, if you know what an agent harness is.”
Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks
Matei Zaharia · Latent Space Blog · Jun 24, 2026
Databricks open-sources Omnigent, a meta-harness to combine, control, and share agents across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.
“CDC is brittle enough to joke that it means “continuous data corruption,””