Phone Harness (YC F26) — Let your agent control your phone
Phone Harness is the most popular open-source harness for phone automation with 3,800+ GitHub stars. We enable agents to tap, type, and scroll on your personal phone or cloud-hosted phones.
Phone Harness is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Let your agent control your phone. The founder listed is Shawn Pana (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, October 20, 2026).
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What it does Let your agent control your phone (source)
Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “The Q2 2026 earnings report, published August 19, 2026, showed adjusted EPS of $2.46 against an expected $2.33” Source: CNBC
Phone Harness is the most popular open-source harness for phone automation with 3,800+ GitHub stars. We enable agents to tap, type, and scroll on your personal phone or cloud-hosted phones. Supports iPhone and Android. No jailbreak, API, or app installation needed.
ShawnPanaaccount linked from the company's own record
Let your AI agent tap, type, and scroll through the apps on your iPhone or Android. Open source. No jailbreak, no API.
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Shawn Pana
Founder/CEO
Founder/CEO at Phone Harness (YC F26). Previously Head of Growth at Browser Use, leading product launches and developer partnerships. Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego.
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Example from a real report (our sample on Target): “The Q2 2026 earnings report, published August 19, 2026, showed adjusted EPS of $2.46 against an expected $2.33” Source: CNBC
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