Agentic Engineering Framework is an open-source orchestration harness and governance layer developed by Dimitri Geelen. It is designed to constrain, supervise, and track terminal-based AI coding agents (such as Claude) across multi-step software engineering tasks. The framework operates via shell-level hooks, repository governance scripts, and PreToolUse enforcement gates. In day-to-day development, it enforces task-tracked workflows where every agent session is bound to structured task IDs, session-scoped focus files, and observation logs. It validates agent actions in real time, preventing uncommitted regressions or out-of-scope file modifications before commands or git operations execute. What distinguishes this harness is its focus on deterministic engineering governance rather than unconstrained autonomy. It introduces guardrails against concurrent worktree overwrites, vendor synchronization checks to prevent governance regressions, and explicit state verification for CLI agent workflows. The project is available as an open-source repository on GitHub, operating directly within local development environments and git repositories without requiring external SaaS orchestration.
Tags: agent harness, ai agent, cli, coding agent, developer tools, OpenSource