// WHY HARPER

Don’t just prototype. Build production software.

Agents can generate code in seconds. Getting that code to production is the hard part, it needs infrastructure, security, and operational trust. Harper gives agents a contained runtime where the entire stack is in the code. What they build locally is what you deploy. No credentials to hand over, no services to wire up, no gap between prototype and production.

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Ship Fast Apps Fast

Harper gets you to production faster, and what you deploy already performs at scale. No gap between prototype speed and production performance because it's the same runtime the whole way through. No glue code, service orchestration, database wiring, or manual infra. Harper collapses all of that into one runtime.

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Scale Without Overhead

Deploying AI-generated applications across regions shouldn't require a platform team. Harper Fabric deploys your application across distributed geographies in minutes, increasing capacity, throughput, and resilience while driving down global latency as new regions come online.

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Enterprise Proven

Most enterprises can’t hand agents the keys to their cloud provider, database, or caching layer. With Harper, they don’t have to. The entire stack runs locally in a single runtime, agents never touch production infrastructure directly. Trusted by some of the world’s largest enterprises.

// JUST TRY IT

Agentic Engineering with Harper

copy the below prompt

Scaffold this project with npm create harper@latest

Build everything with Harper. Check out the /skills files to learn more.

As the project progresses, write updates and key decisions to a context file so it stays current.

Copy & Paste | Start with a Prompt

Pick your coding agent. Copy the prompt. Describe what you want to build. Harper and your agent handles the rest.

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Try Harper Agent

OPEN ALPHA

Where skills teach external agents about Harper, Harper Agent is built to think in it. It scaffolds and codes entire projects contextually, generating structurally sound applications grounded in Harper's architecture from the first command.

Bring your own model API key to use this CLI-based tool. Harper Agent supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and local models via Ollama.

Generates Harper schemas, resources, and config grounded in runtime conventions

Detects existing Harper projects and works within established structure

Supports session persistence for long-running development workflows

Non-interactive mode for piping prompts from specs or task files

Install Harper Agent

Terminal

# Install globally
$ npm install -g @harperfast/agent

# Start in your project directory
$ harper-agent

Working directory: ~/Code/my-app
Harper app detected: Yes

Harper: What do you want to do together today?

> Create a support knowledge base that stores documents as blobs, indexes them with vector embeddings for semantic search, and pushes new article alerts via pub/sub.

# Or pipe a spec non-interactively
$ cat spec.md | harper-agent

Built Different

For most stacks, infrastructure lives outside the code, agents can’t reach it safely. On Harper, the entire application surface is declarative and in-repo so agents control everything without touching production infra.

Layered Harper application platform stack showing GraphQL, API, REST, WebSocket, and MQTT on top of cache and in-memory layers, with database, NoSQL, blob, and vector storage beneath, and AI coding tools above.

TYPICAL
ARCHITECTURE

Configuration Model

config.yamlDeclrative, editable by AI

Distributed configs (Terraform, cloud consoles, service dashboards)

API Definition

schema.graphqlAuto-generated API layer

Custom server setup + framework wiring

Business Logic

resource.jsExecuted within unified runtime

Separate service, separate runtime, separate deploy

Database Provisioning

Built-in (NoSQL, Blob, Vector, Cache)

Manual provisioning (MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, etc.)

Deployment Model

Harper Fabric deploys directly from Harper configuration

CI/CD pipelines + cloud infra coordination

Multi-Region Deployment

Native, built into Harper Fabric

Complex setup across providers

AI Agent Control Surface

Entire stack accessible through files AI can modify

Infra lives outside code; AI cannot provision safely

Human-in-the-Loop Required

Yes (DevOps + cloud permissions required)

Operational Complexity

Minimal, single runtime

High, service coordination and integration overhead

P95 Server Latency

1–10 ms

50–200 ms typical

Production Readiness

Includes all core services

Requires stitching multiple services together

Open Source

Yes

Varies

What Makes This Possible?
Declarative files give agents full control of the stack, without full access to your credentials or data.

Unified Runtime for Agentic Engineering