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    "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)",
    "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/",
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-14",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/",
    "methodology": "0.4",
    "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json",
    "preview": false,
    "run": "2026-10-01",
    "runLabel": "October 2026 research run"
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    "slug": "del",
    "name": "Del",
    "vendor": "Human Interface, Inc.",
    "vendorUrl": "https://www.withdel.com",
    "kind": "platform",
    "category": "personal-assistants",
    "summary": "Del is a hosted personal assistant and task workspace reached by text over iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord or Slack. It keeps tasks, notes and reminders, reads and edits calendars, and handles Gmail and web tasks.",
    "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del",
    "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md",
    "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.min.md",
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    "license": "Closed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 2026).",
    "transports": [],
    "packages": [],
    "auth": "mixed",
    "authNotes": "\"No app, no login, just text Del\" to start, with a web app for the workspace (https://www.withdel.com). Google access uses the calendar.events and gmail.modify scopes. gmail.modify cannot permanently delete messages, and disconnecting deletes the stored tokens (https://www.withdel.com/privacy). Website logins are kept in a Vault (https://www.withdel.com/updates).",
    "pricing": "paid",
    "pricingNotes": "\"Free to get started\" with a 14-day trial that needs no card, per the home page and the updates page (https://www.withdel.com and https://www.withdel.com/updates, checked 14 October 2026). The updates page records the monthly price lowered from $20 to $14.99 and names Standard and Pro plans, with web browsing tasks limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro. No pricing page was found.",
    "priceSummary": "$14.99 / mo",
    "where": "local",
    "x402": {
      "level": "no",
      "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on withdel.com, llms.txt or the terms, checked 14 October 2026.",
      "endpoints": []
    },
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    "popularity": {
      "githubStars": null,
      "npmWeekly": null,
      "pypiWeekly": null,
      "asOf": "2026-10-14"
    },
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      "assistant.messaging",
      "assistant.accounts",
      "assistant.memory",
      "messaging.rcs",
      "messaging.whatsapp",
      "messaging.inbound",
      "mailbox.read",
      "mailbox.send",
      "calendar.write",
      "browser.hosted",
      "tasks.create",
      "memory.user"
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      "hosted",
      "official",
      "closed-source",
      "paid",
      "llms-txt",
      "no-card"
    ],
    "lastRelease": "2026-10-07",
    "graded": true,
    "disclosure": "Del competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.",
    "competesWith": "localghost",
    "anchor": {
      "graded": true,
      "score": 20.6,
      "grade": "F",
      "agentReady": false,
      "rank": 991,
      "ranked": true,
      "rankOf": 1010,
      "categoryRank": 28,
      "methodology": "0.4",
      "run": "2026-10-01",
      "scores": {
        "ergonomics": 0,
        "maintenance": 60,
        "payments": 30,
        "reliability": 25,
        "schema": 10,
        "security": 0,
        "transparency": 57
      },
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        "performance",
        "tasks"
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        {
          "key": "reliability",
          "name": "Reliability",
          "weight": 16,
          "effectiveWeight": 20,
          "score": 25,
          "points": 5,
          "reason": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found. status.withdel.com answers with a hosting not-found page (0). No readable incident history (5). The updates page sets web browsing tasks at five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro, the Marmot reading for plan limits with numbers and no per-call figures (10 of 15). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). Del takes sign-ups and isn't labelled beta (10)."
        },
        {
          "key": "performance",
          "name": "Performance",
          "weight": 10,
          "effectiveWeight": 0,
          "pending": true,
          "points": 0,
          "reason": "Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes."
        },
        {
          "key": "schema",
          "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
          "weight": 13,
          "effectiveWeight": 16.25,
          "score": 10,
          "points": 1.63,
          "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Del has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people. withdel.com/llms.txt and llms-full.txt describe the product, channels and capabilities (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15), the reading the 12 October audit applied to every listing without an agent interface."
        },
        {
          "key": "ergonomics",
          "name": "Agent ergonomics",
          "weight": 13,
          "effectiveWeight": 16.25,
          "score": 0,
          "points": 0,
          "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Del has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people."
        },
        {
          "key": "security",
          "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
          "weight": 14,
          "effectiveWeight": 17.5,
          "score": 0,
          "points": 0,
          "reason": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Del, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For the record, Google access uses the calendar.events and gmail.modify scopes, website logins and cards sit in a Vault, and the updates page records Del saving Gmail drafts (29 September 2026) and sending email when the owner is the only recipient (28 September 2026) without asking. withdel.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20)."
        },
        {
          "key": "payments",
          "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
          "weight": 10,
          "effectiveWeight": 12.5,
          "score": 30,
          "points": 3.75,
          "reason": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). There's no pricing page. The updates page records the monthly price lowered from $20 to $14.99 and names Standard and Pro plans, so a public plan price (10). The updates page announces a card-free 14-day trial and the home page says try free for 2 weeks (20). A person starts by texting Del (0)."
        },
        {
          "key": "tasks",
          "name": "Task success",
          "weight": 10,
          "effectiveWeight": 0,
          "pending": true,
          "points": 0,
          "reason": "Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored."
        },
        {
          "key": "maintenance",
          "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
          "weight": 7,
          "effectiveWeight": 8.75,
          "score": 60,
          "points": 5.25,
          "reason": "Read for a closed service. Updates page entry on 7 October 2026 (30). Dated entries on most days since July, including 2 October, 30 September and 29 September (20). A near-daily public changelog and a contact address in the terms (evan@withdel.com), which we didn't test (10 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0)."
        },
        {
          "key": "transparency",
          "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
          "weight": 7,
          "effectiveWeight": 8.75,
          "score": 57,
          "points": 4.99,
          "note": "editorial 54, provenance 59",
          "reason": "Closed service under terms updated on 5 August 2026 naming Human Interface, Inc. (15). The privacy policy of 30 September 2026 says conversations, tasks, notes and connected data don't train generalised models and binds AI providers likewise, keeps data while the account is active, deletes it at once on account deletion with backups overwritten after a short period, and discloses Vercel Analytics. The terms and privacy policy agree that an employee may review a request and that Del says so in the conversation (22 of 30). Material term changes get notice, with no deprecation policy (3 of 20). Subprocessors are named with regions (Vercel, Supabase and Telnyx in the United States), and AI providers only as US-based (14 of 20)."
        }
      ],
      "assessment": {
        "date": "2026-10-14",
        "basis": "public evidence",
        "confidence": "medium",
        "notes": {
          "ergonomics": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. Del has none, so context cost, pagination, errors, retries and defaults have nothing to score (0 on each line). This says nothing about the service for people.",
          "maintenance": "Read for a closed service. Updates page entry on 7 October 2026 (30). Dated entries on most days since July, including 2 October, 30 September and 29 September (20). A near-daily public changelog and a contact address in the terms (evan@withdel.com), which we didn't test (10 of 15). No MCP server or SDK (0). No package or CI to judge (0).",
          "payments": "Read with the hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). There's no pricing page. The updates page records the monthly price lowered from $20 to $14.99 and names Standard and Pro plans, so a public plan price (10). The updates page announces a card-free 14-day trial and the home page says try free for 2 weeks (20). A person starts by texting Del (0).",
          "reliability": "Read with the hosted lines. No status page found. status.withdel.com answers with a hosting not-found page (0). No readable incident history (5). The updates page sets web browsing tasks at five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro, the Marmot reading for plan limits with numbers and no per-call figures (10 of 15). No overload or retry guidance (0). No SLA (0). Del takes sign-ups and isn't labelled beta (10).",
          "schema": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use, as GRADER.md asks. Del has no API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an agent, so the contract, description, typed-input and example lines score nothing (0 of 25, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15). That is a statement about agent access, not about the service for people. withdel.com/llms.txt and llms-full.txt describe the product, channels and capabilities (10). The versioning and changelog line versions an agent interface, and with none there is nothing to version, so it scores nothing (0 of 15), the reading the 12 October audit applied to every listing without an agent interface.",
          "security": "Graded on the interface an outside agent can use. With none for Del, the credential, least-privilege, injection and audit lines score nothing (0 of 30, 0 of 20, 0 of 15, 0 of 15), whatever the service does for its owner. The security programme line doesn't need an interface and is scored. For the record, Google access uses the calendar.events and gmail.modify scopes, website logins and cards sit in a Vault, and the updates page records Del saving Gmail drafts (29 September 2026) and sending email when the owner is the only recipient (28 September 2026) without asking. withdel.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and no security contact, disclosure policy, bug bounty, certification or advisories were found (0 of 20).",
          "transparency": "Closed service under terms updated on 5 August 2026 naming Human Interface, Inc. (15). The privacy policy of 30 September 2026 says conversations, tasks, notes and connected data don't train generalised models and binds AI providers likewise, keeps data while the account is active, deletes it at once on account deletion with backups overwritten after a short period, and discloses Vercel Analytics. The terms and privacy policy agree that an employee may review a request and that Del says so in the conversation (22 of 30). Material term changes get notice, with no deprecation policy (3 of 20). Subprocessors are named with regions (Vercel, Supabase and Telnyx in the United States), and AI providers only as US-based (14 of 20)."
        },
        "sources": [
          {
            "what": "homepage",
            "url": "https://www.withdel.com",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "updates",
            "url": "https://www.withdel.com/updates",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "privacy policy",
            "url": "https://www.withdel.com/privacy",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "terms",
            "url": "https://www.withdel.com/terms",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "llms-full.txt",
            "url": "https://www.withdel.com/llms-full.txt",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "status subdomain",
            "url": "https://status.withdel.com",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "llms.txt",
            "url": "https://withdel.com/llms.txt",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          },
          {
            "what": "status subdomain (404)",
            "url": "https://status.withdel.com/",
            "seen": "2026-10-14"
          }
        ],
        "openQuestions": [
          "Prices of the Standard and Pro plans separately.",
          "Which AI providers host the open-source models."
        ]
      },
      "negative": 0,
      "verdict": "Del is a hosted texting assistant and task workspace across iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord and Slack, with a near-daily public changelog and a card-free 14-day trial. No outside agent can call it, no status page or security contact was found, and recent updates let some email actions skip approval.",
      "bestFor": "People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use.",
      "disclosure": "Del competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.",
      "strengths": [
        "Dated changelog entries on most days, the latest on 7 October 2026.",
        "Card-free 14-day trial.",
        "The privacy policy names hosting providers and regions, and says user content doesn't train generalised models.",
        "Gmail access uses the modify scope, which can't permanently delete messages."
      ],
      "weaknesses": [
        "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.",
        "Since late September Del saves Gmail drafts, and sends email when the owner is the only recipient, without asking.",
        "No pricing page, and Standard and Pro aren't priced separately.",
        "No status page, security.txt or security contact found.",
        "A Human Interface employee may review requests, which Del discloses in the conversation."
      ],
      "agentNotes": [
        "Don't plan to call Del from another agent. It answers only the owner's messaging threads and web workspace.",
        "Tell the owner web browsing tasks are limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro."
      ],
      "metrics": {
        "kind": "remote",
        "measured": false
      },
      "reviewCount": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "history": [
        {
          "basis": "public evidence",
          "confidence": "medium",
          "grade": "F",
          "methodology": "0.4",
          "pending": [
            "performance",
            "tasks"
          ],
          "run": "2026-10-01",
          "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
          "score": 20.6
        }
      ],
      "editorialScores": {
        "ergonomics": 0,
        "maintenance": 60,
        "payments": 30,
        "reliability": 25,
        "schema": 10,
        "security": 0,
        "transparency": 54
      },
      "provenanceScore": 59
    },
    "connect": {},
    "letme": {
      "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.messaging",
      "tool": "https://letme.dev/del"
    },
    "notable": [
      "Channels are iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord and Slack (https://withdel.com/llms-full.txt)",
      "Integrations named are Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Gmail, Notion, Google Drive, Linear, Granola and GitHub (https://withdel.com/llms-full.txt and https://www.withdel.com/updates)",
      "The updates page records Del saving Gmail drafts \"without asking for your approval first\" (29 September 2026) and sending emails without approval when the owner is the only recipient (28 September 2026) (https://www.withdel.com/updates)",
      "The terms say a Human Interface employee may review a request or guide Del, and that Del discloses that involvement in the conversation (https://www.withdel.com/terms)",
      "The privacy policy (30 September 2026) says Del uses open-source models hosted by US-based providers, does not use conversations, tasks, notes or connected data to train generalised models, and binds its AI providers not to train on them (https://www.withdel.com/privacy)",
      "Subprocessors named are Vercel, Supabase, US-based AI service providers and Telnyx for SMS (https://www.withdel.com/privacy)",
      "Account deletion takes effect at once and removes tasks, notes, chat history, SMS records and calendar tokens from active systems, with backups overwritten after a short period (https://www.withdel.com/privacy)",
      "The updates page is dated entry by entry, the latest on 7 October 2026 (https://www.withdel.com/updates)"
    ],
    "area": "frameworks",
    "details": [
      {
        "label": "Surface listed",
        "value": "Del's texting assistant and web workspace, read from withdel.com, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the terms, privacy policy and updates page on 14 October 2026. No account was created."
      },
      {
        "label": "Where it runs",
        "value": "A cloud service on Vercel and Supabase in the United States, with US-hosted open-source models and Telnyx for SMS (https://www.withdel.com/privacy)."
      },
      {
        "label": "What it acts on",
        "value": "Tasks, notes and reminders, Google and Outlook calendar events, Gmail reading, drafting, sending, labelling and archiving, Notion pages and web tasks with saved Vault credentials (https://www.withdel.com/privacy and https://www.withdel.com/updates)."
      },
      {
        "label": "Outside agent access",
        "value": "None found."
      },
      {
        "label": "Company",
        "value": "Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation (https://www.withdel.com/terms)."
      }
    ],
    "unitPrices": [
      {
        "item": "Del subscription",
        "unit": "month",
        "usd": 14.99,
        "note": "Lowered from $20, per the updates page. Plan tier not stated for this price."
      }
    ],
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      "legalEntity": "Human Interface, Inc.",
      "domain": "withdel.com",
      "domainRegistered": "2026-05-14",
      "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
      "terms": "https://www.withdel.com/terms",
      "privacy": "https://www.withdel.com/privacy",
      "statusPage": "",
      "changelog": "https://www.withdel.com/updates",
      "securityTxt": "none",
      "checked": "2026-10-14",
      "notes": [
        "The terms were last updated on 5 August 2026 and the privacy policy on 30 September 2026.",
        "withdel.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page was found.",
        "robots.txt carries Content-Signal search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=yes.",
        "RDAP gives a registration date of 2026-05-14 for withdel.com."
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      "score": 59,
      "checks": [
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          "check": "Legal entity named",
          "value": "Human Interface, Inc.",
          "points": 20,
          "max": 20,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "Domain age",
          "value": "withdel.com, registered 2026-05-14 (under a year)",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 15,
          "state": "no"
        },
        {
          "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain",
          "value": "no hosted endpoint",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 0,
          "state": "na"
        },
        {
          "check": "Terms of service",
          "value": "published",
          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
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        {
          "check": "Privacy policy",
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          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
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          "check": "Status page",
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          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
        },
        {
          "check": "Changelog",
          "value": "published",
          "points": 10,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "ok"
        },
        {
          "check": "security.txt",
          "value": "not found",
          "points": 0,
          "max": 10,
          "state": "no"
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