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Overview of Harness AI

Learn about how AI improves your experience on the Harness platform.

Harness AI brings intelligence to every stage of the software delivery lifecycle. The Harness Platform leverages Harness AI by combining AI capabilities with DevOps tools, features, and practices to accelerate the software delivery lifecycle. Create pipelines with natural language, troubleshoot failures with root cause analysis, optimize cloud costs with AI-powered governance, and automate code review with autonomous agents running inside your pipelines.


What you will learn in this topic

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:


Before you begin

Before you enable Harness AI, ensure you have the following:

  • Harness account access: Account-level permissions to enable Harness AI. See, Getting started with Harness Platform for more information on creating or accessing your account.

  • Account Settings permissions: Permission to modify account settings to enable AI features.


Enable AI

Enable Harness AI to use AI-powered features across all Harness modules.

  1. Navigate to Account Settings.

  2. Under General, select Default Settings.

  3. Select the Harness AI tile.

  4. Enable the Harness AI setting.

  5. Optional: Select Allow Overrides to let organizations and projects enable or disable Harness AI independently.


Harness AI features

Harness AI provides capabilities across platform, code repository, and module-specific features. The following table lists all available AI features organized by module.

Module
Feature
Description
Availability

Platform

Autonomous AI agents that run inside pipelines, building, deploying, testing, remediating, and optimizing the software delivery lifecycle from commit to production.

Generally available

Platform

Agentic AI assistant that creates and manages pipelines, stages, steps, services, environments, connectors, and secrets through natural language prompts.

Generally available

Platform

AI-powered root cause analysis for pipeline failures with automated fix recommendations and YAML auto-repair.

Generally available

Platform

Generate and integrate Open Policy Agent (OPA) Rego policies to meet compliance standards.

Generally available

Platform

AI-generated natural language summaries of pipelines, executions, and dependent resources.

Generally available

Platform

Create Services, Environments, Connectors, and Secrets through conversational AI prompts.

Generally available

Platform

Configure account, organization, project, and personal rules that guide Harness AI output for pipelines, builds, security, cost, code, and other SDLC workflows.

Generally available

Platform

Personalize Harness AI responses with private user-level context captured from chat interactions.

Generally available

Platform

AI-powered first line of support that answers product and documentation questions with contextual examples from the knowledge base.

Generally available

Platform

Craft customized dashboards with widget-level control through interactive AI prompts.

Generally available

Platform

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with 11 tools and 139 resource types enabling integration with external AI tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, and VS Code.

Generally available

Platform

Harness Unified CLI is the officially supported command-line tool for the Harness platform. It replaces module-specific CLIs with a single interface. Built for secure DevSecOps, it provides a consistent workflow for developers and reliable execution for AI agents.

Public Beta

Code Repository

AI-generated pull request descriptions with code change analysis, file-level summaries, and impact assessment to facilitate code review.

Generally available

Platform

Monitor Harness pipelines, view logs, manage approvals, and use AI-assisted debugging in Visual Studio Code.

Generally available

CI

Resolve build failures with Harness AI DevOps Agent root cause analysis.

Generally available

CI

AI DevOps Agent creates CI, CD, IaCM, IDP, SCS, STO, DB DevOps, and Chaos Engineering pipelines and stages.

Generally available

CD

Resolve deployment failures with AI root cause analysis.

Generally available

CD

AI-powered management of 13 GitOps resource types including applications, ApplicationSets, agents, clusters, and repositories. Query status, sync, inspect events and logs, and manage resources through natural language.

Generally available

IaCM

AI DevOps Agent creates Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) pipelines for provisioning infrastructure with Terraform and other IaC tools.

Generally available

CCM

Generate rules for asset governance with detailed descriptions to optimize cloud spend.

Generally available

STO

AI-powered vulnerability analysis and remediation recommendations to secure applications.

Generally available

SCS

AI-powered dependency analysis of repository-generated SBOMs with actionable remediation recommendations to secure applications.

Generally available

CE

Generate conditions for chaos experiments with ChaosGuard.

Generally available

FME

AI-powered release intelligence with documentation summarization and experiment result analysis.

Generally available

AIDI

AI-powered analysis of developer productivity, AI tool adoption impact, and engineering metrics including DORA and SPACE frameworks.

Generally available

AI SRE

Automated incident documentation with real-time communication monitoring across Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams.

Generally available

AI Test Automation

Natural language test generation with intent-driven testing, automated step decomposition, and AI assertions.

Generally available


AI models

Harness AI features use the following AI models:

  • DevOps Agent: Claude Opus 4.6, hosted through AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

  • Support Agent: Claude Opus 4.6, hosted through AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

  • OPA Agent: Claude Opus 4.6, hosted through AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

  • Error Analyzer: Claude Opus 4.6, hosted through AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.


Terms and data privacy

Visit the following Harness Legal pages for information about Harness AI data privacy and terms of use:


FAQ

What natural languages does Harness AI support?

Harness AI can generate in widely used languages including English, Dutch, Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Korean, and Mandarin.

Does Harness AI support code translation between programming languages?

Yes. Harness AI provides code translation capabilities powered by large language models (LLMs). You can convert logic from one programming language to another using natural language prompts directly within your IDE.

Example prompts:

  • "Convert this Python script to Java"

  • "Refactor this C++ logic into Go"

The system achieves high-fidelity translations through specialized models that understand language-specific idioms and framework equivalences.

Supported languages and versions:

Programming Language
Version

Java

8, 11, 17, 21

Python

2.7, 3.6-3.12

JavaScript/TypeScript

ES6+, TypeScript 4.x-5.x

C#

.NET Framework 4.x, .NET Core 3.x, .NET 5+

C/C++

C11/C14/C17, C++11/14/17/20

COBOL

IBM Enterprise COBOL

FORTRAN

77, 90, 2003, 2008

Go

1.16+

Rust

2018, 2021 editions

Ruby

2.x, 3.x

PHP

5.x, 7.x, 8.x

Kotlin

1.4+

Swift

5.x

Does Harness support LLM-powered translation?

Yes. Harness AI uses the following large language models to generate and adapt code:

  • OpenAI GPT-4o

  • Google Gemini Flash

  • Claude Opus 4.6

Are domain-specific use cases supported?

Yes. Harness AI supports domain-specific tasks such as DevOps policy creation, YAML generation, and semantic validation using specialized language models. This ensures high relevance and accuracy for industry-specific needs.

Does Harness AI support runtime awareness features?

Harness AI offers comprehensive runtime awareness capabilities that empower developers and DevOps teams to manage, automate, and optimize software delivery processes with precision. Runtime interaction features are fully integrated into the Harness platform and IDE-based workflows.

Which application delivery features does Harness AI support?

Harness AI supports the following application delivery features:

  • In-line autocomplete in IDE

  • Multi-file edits and code generation via chat

  • Agentic task completion (for example, refactoring)

  • Build file generation

  • Non-code artifact generation

  • Prompt-to-app (create and deploy from a prompt)

Harness AI uses an open architecture that allows teams to bring their own AI model and templates tailored to internal frameworks or delivery pipelines.

What agentic features does Harness support?

Harness AI natively supports event-based triggers like commits, bug creation, or test failures. These workflows can be configured through integrations with Git hooks, issue trackers, or CI/CD pipelines, allowing organizations to build automated assistants that react to defined events.

Does Harness support multi-modal input for debugging?

Harness AI supports comprehensive multi-modal debugging:

  • Stack traces: Advanced parsing and analysis of stack traces with context-aware identification of root causes, even in complex distributed systems. The system correlates traces with codebase history to identify recently changed components that may have introduced issues.

  • UI errors: Visual analysis of UI error screenshots, DOM structures, and console logs to pinpoint frontend issues. The system can identify responsive design breakages, JavaScript exceptions, and CSS conflicts.


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