amosblomqvist/learnharness

What is it?

Key features

• 01Diagnoses your current understanding before each lesson and plans a dependency path to your goal.
• 02Lets you explain your reasoning by typing or dictating, and adapts teaching to your answers.
• 03Runs separate practice sessions with varied problems and adaptive hints.
• 04Stores learned ideas in a persistent knowledge graph linked to source sessions.
• 05Supports 30+ model provider options, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and OpenRouter.
• 06Keeps chats, graph, settings, and API keys on your local machine, with system prompts visible and editable.

Use cases

• Learning a dense technical subject where you need prerequisites filled in first.
• Studying a difficult topic over many sessions with a persistent record of progress.
• Importing your own notes so the agent can build on what you already wrote.
• Practicing recall of concepts you have been taught, without being told the terms first.

Quick start

1. 1

   Download the app from learnharness.ai or the GitHub Releases page

2. 2

   Add your provider API key and choose your models in the app

3. 3

   To run from source, install dependencies

   npm install
4. 4

   Start the development server at http://localhost:3000

   npm run dev

Things to know

• !Model costs are paid to your own AI providers, which requires an API key.
• !Windows installer is unsigned and may trigger SmartScreen warnings.
• !Licensed under AGPL-3.0, a copyleft license that requires sharing modified source when distributed or served over a network.
• !Models, web research, and dictation send data to external services, so local storage does not mean offline processing.

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FAQ

What is learnharness?

A desktop app that uses AI agents to diagnose what you already understand and teach you toward a goal, with a persistent knowledge graph. LearnHarness is a desktop app for learning difficult subjects with AI agents. Before teaching, it measures where your understanding ends for each prerequisite of the lesson, then builds a dependency map from that starting point to your goal. Each step builds on what you already understand: you make predictions, receive explanations, and check your understanding, with confusions repaired before new material depends on them.

Is learnharness free to use? What license does it have?

learnharness is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Check the license terms before using it in commercial products.

Is learnharness still maintained?

Actively maintained. The last commit to learnharness was on Nov 4, 2026.

What can I use learnharness for?

Learning a dense technical subject where you need prerequisites filled in first. Studying a difficult topic over many sessions with a persistent record of progress. Importing your own notes so the agent can build on what you already wrote. Practicing recall of concepts you have been taught, without being told the terms first.

How do I install learnharness?

Download the app from learnharness.ai or the GitHub Releases page Add your provider API key and choose your models in the app To run from source, install dependencies: npm install Start the development server at http://localhost:3000: npm run dev

Where can I get learnharness?

The source code and installation instructions are on GitHub: https://github.com/amosblomqvist/learnharness