Harbor vs Unblocked

With Unblocked, the agent has to ask. With Harbor, it already knows.

Unblocked answers questions on demand from everything your engineers have written. Harbor holds the decisions your team made and puts the ones that apply into every session before the agent asks. Unblocked argues that context should not depend on people curating it. Harbor lets you choose what waits for a person, and shows which rules were used.

Harbor is in early access, and we let teams in by hand. Every line about Unblocked is from its own pages, read on 1 October 2026.

Why teams pick Harbor

Decide what gets in. See what gets used.

Three things Harbor does for the team behind the agents, each beside what Unblocked's own pages say about the same job.

You set the gate

Manual, Hybrid or Auto. Whatever you pick, a contradiction waits for a person.

In UnblockedNobody approves rules: it learns strongly supported conventions from recurring review feedback, and anyone in the org can correct or remove a shared memory.

You see what got used

Every rule shows how often it was served and how often an answer cited it.

In UnblockedAdmins see MCP tool calls by coding agent, and answer ratings.

You block a risky command

Block rules refuse it before it runs, in Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.

In UnblockedNot part of the product.

Side by side

Harbor and Unblocked, row by row.

HarborUnblocked
What it isA company brain for a team's coding agents. It learns the rules your team decides and serves the ones that apply to each session.A context engine for engineering teams. It reads code, conversations, issues and docs and gives people and agents reconciled answers with citations.
Where the knowledge comes fromSlack, GitHub, GitLab, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear, Google Drive and Granola, plus what agent sessions record.About 45 connectors: code and PRs, Slack and Teams, docs, issue trackers, CI and runtime tools, plus corrections people make.
Who decides what gets inYou 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.Nobody approves rules: it learns strongly supported conventions from recurring review feedback, and anyone in the org can correct or remove a shared memory.
How it reaches the agentHooks 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.The agent asks through MCP tools or the CLI. People ask in Slack, on the web or through the API.
When a decision changesWhen 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.Answers weigh current code, recency and expertise, a conflict it cannot settle is shown, and a cited source can be archived with a reason.
Seeing what was usedEvery rule shows how often it was served and how often an answer cited it.Admins see MCP tool calls by coding agent, and answer ratings.
Stopping a risky commandBlock 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.
AgentsClaude Code, Cursor and Codex.Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Codex, OpenCode and any MCP agent.
Open source and hostingThe CLI, harborloop, is MIT licensed on npm. The service is hosted.Hosted, with on-prem on Enterprise. A few small tools are open source under MIT.
PriceIn 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.$29 per user a month billed yearly, $35 monthly, after a 21-day trial. No free plan.
Best forEngineering teams who want every coding session to start with what the team decided.Engineers who want answers on demand from everything the team has written.

Unblocked's side comes from its own pages, read on 1 October 2026: getunblocked.com · Unblocked pricing · Unblocked MCP · Unblocked docs. Out of date? Tell us.

Which one

Pick the one built for your job.

Pick Harbor if

  • You want the rules in the session from the first turn, not fetched when the agent thinks to ask.
  • You want to choose what waits for a person before it reaches every agent.
  • You want to see which rules were used, rule by rule, not only how often the tool was called.
  • You want a free plan, or block rules that stop a command before it runs.
Get early access

Pick Unblocked if

  • You want answers synthesised on demand from code, Slack, docs and tickets, with nobody curating rules.
  • You need SSO, SCIM and SOC 2 Type II now.
  • Your engineers also use Windsurf or GitHub Copilot.
  • You want code review and CI failure agents from the same vendor.
Can I run Harbor and Unblocked together?

They overlap more than the others on this list: both read Slack, code and docs for coding agents. Most teams would pick one.

Can I start with Harbor today?

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. Unblocked can be signed up for today.

Is Harbor open source?

The CLI, harborloop, is MIT licensed on npm. The service is hosted. Unblocked: Hosted, with on-prem on Enterprise. A few small tools are open source under MIT.

Where do the claims about Unblocked come from?

From Unblocked'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.

Decide once.
Every agent knows.

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.

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