Introducing Omnigent: an open meta-harness – Matei Zaharia, Co-founder and CTO, Databricks
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.”— Matei Zaharia
Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia introduced Omnigent, an open-source meta-harness released over the weekend that sits on top of existing agent harnesses (like Claude Code and Codex) to address management, security, and scaling challenges. It matters because it signals a major data platform vendor staking out a new infrastructure layer for orchestrating agents in production.