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    Added 6/4/2026

    Harness

    AI-powered software delivery platform for the post-code lifecycle.

    Harness is profiled here as a Testing tool for engineering teams. Read about features, pricing, and how it compares to related options in the tools directory.

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    Description

    Tagline (under 10 words): AI-powered software delivery platform for the post-code lifecycle.

    Short Intro: Harness is an enterprise software delivery platform founded in 2017 by Jyoti Bansal, who previously founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7 billion the same year he started Harness. Headquartered in San Francisco with 1,700+ employees across 14 offices, the platform covers the full post-code delivery lifecycle: CI/CD, feature flags, cloud cost management, chaos engineering, security testing, and internal developer portals. In April 2026, Harness launched a Cursor Plugin that connects its Software Delivery Knowledge Graph to Cursor's chat interface through an MCP server, letting developers run pipelines and governance workflows in natural language without leaving their IDE.

    Key Capabilities:

    • CI/CD pipelines with AI-powered canary, blue/green deployments, and automated rollback

    • Feature flags and incremental rollout management

    • Cloud cost management with real-time spend monitoring and optimization

    • Chaos engineering with 225+ pre-built failure experiments embedded in pipelines

    • Security testing orchestration with vulnerability scanning and supply chain security

    • Secure AI Coding integration with Cursor for scanning AI-generated code

    • Cursor Plugin via MCP server for natural language CI/CD and deployment execution

    • Software Delivery Knowledge Graph as the AI substrate for all automation

    • AI agents for DevOps, SRE, release, AppSec, and test workflows

    • Internal developer portal built on Backstage with enterprise governance

    • Infrastructure as code management and database DevOps integration

    • AI test authoring with self-healing test maintenance

    • Drone CI open-source engine and Gitness open-source code hosting

    See Harness Pricing Details →

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