Why We Built Dhara — An Open Protocol Standard for AI Agents, Not Another Product

Coding agents today are products , not platforms. Every single one ships as a bloated, all-in-one package that forces you into its way of working. Claude Code wants you to use their plugin system. Codex wants you to use their workspace model. Pi wants you to write TypeScript extensions. Opencode wants you to configure a dozen YAML files before you can do anything useful. We built Dhara because we got tired of adapting to someone else's opinionated harness. The agent loop itself — LLM calls tools