# Introducing AURA: Building an Open Agentic harness for production AI

DevFeed: [Introducing AURA: Building an Open Agentic harness for production AI](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/introducing-aura-building-an-open-agentic-harness-for-production-ai-12137.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://platformengineering.org/blog/aura-building-open-agentic-harness-for-production-AI>)

Author: Henry Andrews

Published: 2026-07-23T05:40:01Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Platform Engineering Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/platform-engineering-blog.md>)

Topics: [Agent Harness](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-harness.md>), [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [building](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/building.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [open](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platforms.md>), [rag](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rag.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/source.md>)

## AI overview

AURA is Mezmo's open-source, Rust-based agent harness for running production AI workflows. It provides declarative composition, multi-agent orchestration, MCP tool integration, RAG pipelines, and observability-oriented context for operational investigations.

## Source excerpt

AI agents need production infrastructure. AURA is Mezmo's open-source agentic harness, offering declarative composition, multi-agent orchestration, and deep observability