ByteRover is memory that you and your agents curate, kept as files you own and shared by space. Harbor learns from where the team already decides, in Slack threads, PR reviews and docs, and serves the rules that apply. ByteRover covers more agents and runs locally. Harbor captures from other people's work, counts what was used and blocks risky commands.
Harbor is in early access, and we let teams in by hand. Every line about ByteRover is from its own pages, read on 1 October 2026.
Three things Harbor does for the team behind the agents, each beside what ByteRover's own pages say about the same job.
Manual, Hybrid or Auto. Whatever you pick, a contradiction waits for a person.
In ByteRoverSpaces set who can read and write, from owner to viewer. Through its company brain plugin, what an agent learns is a proposal that stays pending until someone reviews it.
Every rule shows how often it was served and how often an answer cited it.
In ByteRoverEach recall shows the sources it came from.
Block rules refuse it before it runs, in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
In ByteRoverNot part of the product.
| Harbor | ByteRover | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A company brain for a team's coding agents. It learns the rules your team decides and serves the ones that apply to each session. | Shared memory for coding agents: a desktop app, a CLI and agent skills that save decisions, fixes and rules as context files and share them across agents and teammates. |
| Where the knowledge comes from | Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Google Drive and Granola, plus what agent sessions record. | What you and your agents choose to save during sessions. |
| Who decides what gets in | You set the gate. Manual holds everything for a person, Hybrid adds routine rules and holds the important ones, Auto adds everything else. A contradiction always waits for a person. | Spaces set who can read and write, from owner to viewer. Through its company brain plugin, what an agent learns is a proposal that stays pending until someone reviews it. |
| How it reaches the agent | Hooks add the rules that apply to the session before the agent writes a line. The same rules are on an MCP server, the CLI and /harbor in Slack. | Agents query memory through its skills, and each recall comes with links to its sources. |
| When a decision changes | When a push deletes the file a rule is about, the rule is retired, or flagged if other repos still use it. A newer decision that contradicts a rule waits for a person. | A cleanup pass proposes merges and pruning, and the agent applies them. |
| Seeing what was used | Every rule shows how often it was served and how often an answer cited it. | Each recall shows the sources it came from. |
| Stopping a risky command | Block rules refuse a command before it runs, in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and hand the agent something to run instead. | Not part of the product. |
| Agents | Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. | Ten named, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Windsurf. |
| Open source and hosting | The CLI, harborloop, is MIT licensed on npm. The service is hosted. | Its CLI repo is under the Elastic License 2.0, though its site says MIT. Local-first with cloud sync, and on-prem on Enterprise. |
| Price | In early access: join the waitlist and we let teams in by hand. Free costs nothing for your whole team on one source, Pro is $24 per person a month billed yearly or $30 monthly, and Premium is $36, or $45 monthly. | A free tier, then Pro at $15 a month billed yearly, $19 monthly. Enterprise is custom. |
| Best for | Engineering teams who want every coding session to start with what the team decided. | Developers who want agent memory as local files they own and edit. |
ByteRover's side comes from its own pages, read on 1 October 2026: byterover.dev · ByteRover CLI · ByteRover plugin · ByteRover docs. Out of date? Tell us.
Both put shared rules in front of coding agents, so most teams would pick one. The split is whether the rules come from your agents or from your team.
Harbor is in early access, and we let teams in by hand: leave an address and the people who build it will write to you. ByteRover can be signed up for today.
The CLI, harborloop, is MIT licensed on npm. The service is hosted. ByteRover: Its CLI repo is under the Elastic License 2.0, though its site says MIT. Local-first with cloud sync, and on-prem on Enterprise.
From ByteRover's own public pages, read on 1 October 2026, which are listed under the table. Products move, so if a line is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
Nothing to migrate and nothing to write. Two weeks in, you see which rules your agents were given and which ones they cited. Leave an address and the people who build it will be in touch.