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title: "Designed for the agents you already use"
canonical_url: https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/
description: "Auteur is a full studio in its own right, and it does not need an outside agent to run. Drive it on its own, from its dashboard, from the Control Deck on a…"
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# Designed for the agents you already use

Auteur is a full studio in its own right, and it does not need an outside agent
to run. Drive it on its own, from its dashboard, from the Control Deck on a
tablet, or from Telegram on your phone, in plain language, with hands-on control
over every part of a build, a campaign, a film, or a novel. Or seat the AI
harness you already use, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Grok, on top of it for a
familiar, fire-and-forget way to make progress. The harness is optional, never
required.

That is the real choice this page is about. Bring a harness and Auteur lends it
the power of essentially every major AI platform at once, orchestrated, governed,
and receipted. Bring none and the studio still runs, entirely on local models if
you want, with no frontier harness in the loop at all. Either way Auteur is an
amplification and accountability layer, never a replacement: the agent can
change, or there may be no agent at all, and the project, process, authority, and
evidence remain.

Anyone can hand an agent an MCP connection; that part is commonplace now. What
matters is what travels across it. Auteur bakes premade, engineered toolsets
straight into the harness you already use, so the agent is not left rooting
around your application, guessing at what to do and burning tokens and time to
rediscover it every session. It arrives with a roadmap: the shortcuts to the
result you asked for in plain language, with the technical steps already solved
behind software-engineered guardrails that keep the harness from overreaching,
misfiring, or taking a destructive action. Think of it as three things your
agent does not have on its own: an efficiency layer that removes the trial and
error, a memory layer that already knows your project, and pre-built,
battle-tested toolsets that make reaching the right result simpler, faster, and
safer.

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## Every harness, one project

Chat harnesses and coding harnesses seat here side by side. Each one keeps
its own page, its own measured status, and its own session mockup:

- **[Claude Code](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/claude-code/)**, the conductor's chair:
  long-context planning, cross-family review, and orchestration.
- **[Codex](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/codex/)**, the workhorse: the most-used builder in
  our own ledger, housed on your subscription.
- **[Cursor](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/cursor/)**, the editor that keeps its editor:
  campaign structure and cross-model review around the tool you code in.
- **[Grok](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/grok/)**, the improviser with a studio: receipts,
  reach, and order over multi-agent chaos.
- **[Google Antigravity](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/antigravity/)**, Gemini's agentic
  environment, with vision that parses footage in intake and review.
- **[OpenClaw](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/openclaw/)**, **[Hermes](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/hermes/)**,
  and **[any spec-compliant MCP client](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/generic-mcp/)** at
  their published status.

## How they interact

The point is not eight separate integrations. It is one project where they
work each other's blind spots:

- **Orchestrator and builders.** One harness conducts a campaign while
  others build inside it: separate worktrees, allowlists, and spend
  ceilings per seat.
- **No seat grades its own homework.** Diffs and drafts from one family are
  reviewed by another. The 16 seat failures caught on this site's own build
  were caught exactly this way.
- **Shared memory, shared receipts.** Whatever seat did the work, the
  project remembers it: canon, decisions, costs, and verification live in
  one ledger every harness can read.
- **Handoffs without loss.** Start a scene in Claude Code at the desk,
  approve renders from Grok on your phone, let Codex run the overnight
  build: the project, not the chat scroll, is the continuity.

## Three ways a harness connects

Every harness below is a designed seat for Auteur over the Model Context
Protocol; each mode's current, measured state lives in its chips.

- **Client**, the harness is your interface and calls Auteur as an MCP control
  surface. Auteur holds the project, the authority, and the evidence.
- **Executor**, Auteur drives the harness as a campaign seat under an executor
  profile. Requires headless operation and a machine-readable output stream.
- **Direct model**, Auteur calls the vendor's API directly for measured,
  accounted work, with no harness in the loop.

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## The harnesses

Each harness row lists its designed connection modes - client, executor, or
both - with per-mode state carried by the chips.

- [Grok](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/grok/)
- [Claude Code](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/claude-code/)
- [Codex](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/codex/)
- [Cursor](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/cursor/)
- [Google Antigravity](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/antigravity/)
- [OpenClaw](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/openclaw/)
- [Hermes](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/hermes/)
- [Generic MCP client](https://auteurintelligence.com/integrations/generic-mcp/)

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## What every harness page tells you

The same eleven things, in the same order, at the same depth, for every harness:
what it does well, what Auteur adds, how it connects, which products it reaches,
what is measurable, what the integration does **not** do, the security and
authority boundary, the current status, the proof, how to set it up, and the
affiliation statement.

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## What is measurable

Auteur measures the work that flows through it. When a harness runs as an Auteur
executor or a direct-model lane, token and cost accounting is derived from the
record. When work happens outside Auteur's visibility, Auteur never invents
missing usage data; missing = unknown, never zero.

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## Affiliation

Auteur is designed to connect with the tools named on these pages. No
partnership, endorsement, or certification is claimed, and none exists.

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## Proof

Status source: `site_data/integration_page_schema.yaml` · Claims: COND-004,
COND-003, COND-001, BUILD-002, BUILD-004, PLAT-007, PLAT-005 · Evidence: harness
registry, MCP release packet, and campaign history · Verified: 2026-08-28.
