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title: Connect Tools to DigitalOcean Harness Runtime Environments (public)
description: Give an environment governed access to Action Gateway tools and to a team GitHub account.
product: Managed Agents
url: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/how-to/connect-tools/
last_updated: "2026-10-06"
---

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# Connect Tools to DigitalOcean Harness Runtime Environments (public)

Generated on 21 Oct 2026

DigitalOcean Harness Runtime provides managed, hardware-isolated microVM sandboxes with built-in tools such as Chromium to run harnesses and execute arbitrary code. Rich lifecycle APIs preserve conversational history and working state across sessions, letting you pause, resume, and fork work to control costs and adapt to the nonlinear nature of agentic workflows. Scale complete agents such as Claude Code or use sandboxes independently for code execution, all through the same service. See [What You Can Build](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/details/what-you-can-build/index.html.md) for example use cases.

[How to Connect Action Gateway to DigitalOcean Harness Runtime](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/how-to/connect-action-gateway/index.html.md): Connect Harness Runtime to the full Action Gateway catalog or selected tools, with preloading and execution permissions.

[How to Connect GitHub to a DigitalOcean Harness Runtime Session](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/managed-agents/agent-harness-runtime/how-to/connect-github/index.html.md): Connect GitHub accounts with OAuth, select a connection in the environment spec, and revoke connections you no longer need, so a session can clone, commit, and open pull requests.