Harness MCP Server

MCP server for Harness API integration

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What is the Harness MCP server?

If you already use Harness, the harness mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. MCP server for Harness API integration.

What the server does

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for integrating Harness with GenAI applications.

  • Comprehensive Harness API coverage
  • Multiple authentication methods
  • Enterprise-ready with rate limiting
  • Full error handling and retry logic
  • Async support for better performance

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

  • Enterprise — ready with rate limiting

Installation

Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at harness-mcp-server on PyPI and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.

Where it fits

Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Harness's toolset — Enterprise — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by asklokesh; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Worth knowing first

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
Enterpriseready with rate limiting

How to install the Harness MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "server-harness": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["harness-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Harness to Enterprise.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Harness to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Enterprise) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Harness directly.