tau alternatives
Curated alternatives to tau — and why you'd switch.
mini-swe-agent
The 100-line agent from the SWE-bench team: >74% on SWE-bench Verified with no tools but bash, no config sprawl — the reference minimal harness, adopted by Meta, NVIDIA and Ramp.
Why switchThe two readable coding agents, at different altitudes: mini-swe-agent is the 100-line loop that proves harness complexity optional; Tau is the layered harness that teaches where the boundaries go when you DO add TUI, sessions and skills.
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