Local infrastructure for coding agents

Choose the harness.
Keep the record.

Coven is the local runtime around your coding agent: project boundaries, supervised sessions, durable event history, and a stable local API.

Harnesses own models and provider authentication. Coven owns what should remain consistent around them: scope, lifecycle, and evidence.

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npx @opencoven/cli doctor

The layer around the agent

A small, local control plane that makes agent work governable without replacing the agent you choose.

Run the coding CLI you already trust. Coven leaves provider credentials and model choice with that harness.

The local daemon verifies the project root and working directory before it launches a session.

Keep a replayable event record across process exits, then attach, archive, or remove it deliberately.

Build your own local client against the versioned socket contract without bypassing the authority boundary.

Install Coven, verify a harness, and launch from the project you want to protect.