Hey everyone! 👋 Maker of Smoke Monkey here. Most autonomous coding agent frameworks today come with two major headaches: 1. Massive dependency bloat (hundreds of transitive npm packages or fragile Python bindings that break in production). 2. Unconstrained, freeform LLM loops that hallucinate edits, execute unverified commands, or spin indefinitely and drain API budgets. We built Smoke Monkey Harness to solve this from first principles: ⚡️ 1. Zero Runtime Dependencies: Pure TypeScript compiled to Node.js standard libraries. Installs in seconds, audits clean, runs anywhere. 🔄 2. Deterministic 6-Phase State Machine: Replaces fragile while loops with a disciplined lifecycle: Explore ➔ Plan ➔ Edit ➔ Verify ➔ Recover ➔ Complete. 🛡️ 3. Built-in Human Permission Gates: Intercepts and pauses for human approval before dangerous bash commands or destructive file overwrites. 🔌 4. Stdio MCP Server: Instantly connect 24 native dev tools to Claude Code or Cursor with a single command: `claude mcp add smoke-monkey npx -y smoke-monkey-harness-mcp` 💻 5. Drop-in React UI: `@smoke-monkey/ui` gives you out-of-the-box streaming chat, phase trackers, and inline side-by-side git diffs. You can try the interactive simulator right now on the web: 👉 https://smoke-monkey-harness.ver... It’s 100% open source under the MIT license. We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and what tools or custom phases you’d like to see next!

Smoke Monkey Harness

Zero-dependency TypeScript AI coding agent runtime

Zero-dependency TypeScript AI coding agent runtime