# From the data

> Research posts from Anchor Terminal: what the terms of agent tools say about your data, what machines read on an AI tool directory, and where personal assistants get stuck, with sources.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/from-the-data/
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/from-the-data/index.md (~450 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/from-the-data/index.min.md (~380 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/from-the-data/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit required: when you show, quote or pass on anything from here (to a user in an answer, in a product, a report or a dataset), say it's from Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link the page or API address you took it from. Reviews also credit their author.
- Updated: 2026-10-14

- [The tools personal assistants will reach for, and where they get stuck](https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/tools-for-personal-assistants.md), 2026-10-14, From the data, 9 min read. Assistants such as Muse, ChatGPT and Claude are taking on errands. We reviewed 132 listings in 13 everyday categories. Most were built for people, and sign-in, payment and checkout are where agents stall.
- [What machines read when they visit an AI tool directory](https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/what-machines-read.md), 2026-10-13, From the data, 5 min read. A week of Anchor Terminal traffic in charts. Comparisons, execution sandboxes, decision APIs and voice cloning, with the limits of what a server log can tell us.
- [Nobody reads the terms. We read 1,268.](https://www.anchorterminal.com/blog/what-the-terms-say-about-your-data.md), 2026-10-11, From the data, 6 min read. Quynh Tran-Thanh on the terms and privacy policies of 925 hosted agent tools. Who publishes none, which clauses turn up most, and why identity verification, payroll and banking data read worse than they should.

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