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      "name": "Agent Zero",
      "vendor": "Agent Zero, s.r.o.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.agent-zero.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Agent Zero is an open-source agent framework that runs in a Docker container with a Linux desktop, a browser, a task scheduler and memory. Its owner reaches it through a web interface, Telegram, WhatsApp or email.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agent-zero.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero",
      "license": "MIT",
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "agent0ai/agent-zero"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account. The web interface has no login until the owner sets a username and password in Settings or as `AUTH_LOGIN` and `AUTH_PASSWORD`, which are stored in `/a0/usr/.env` (https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/blob/main/docs/setup/vps-deployment.md). The external API takes an `X-API-KEY` header, and the optional MCP server and A2A endpoint carry the same token in the URL path. The token is derived from the instance id and the login, so it changes when either changes (https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/blob/main/docs/guides/a2a-setup.md). Model access uses provider API keys or OAuth sign-in to ChatGPT (Codex), GitHub Copilot, Google Cloud Gemini or xAI (https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/blob/main/plugins/_oauth/README.md).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT, with nothing to buy for the software. The owner pays the model provider they configure, or nothing with a local model. A beta LLM API on the vendor's site gives a daily quota to people who stake its A0T token and is separate from the software (checked 2026-10-12).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 19429,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/tree/main/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.agent-zero.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client"
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      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "python",
        "mit",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-09-23",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
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        "score": 54.2,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 775,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1146,
        "categoryRank": 29,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 62,
          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 57,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 54,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -6,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-03-17. CVE-2026-4307 (path traversal in `get_abs_path`, CVSS 4.3) and CVE-2026-4308 (server-side request forgery in document queries, CVSS 6.3), both against 0.9.7, with public exploits. The NVD entries say the vendor was contacted and did not respond. The v2.9 notes of 12 August 2026 list a fix for an SSRF regression under CVE-2026-4308. Whether CVE-2026-4307 is fixed was not established. -2. https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2026-4308",
          "2026-05-27. CVE-2026-47119, stored cross-site scripting through SVG files served by the `image_get` endpoint, CVSS 6.1, in versions before 1.15. The report (#1609) was closed as completed on 12 May 2026. Fixed, and no GitHub advisory was published. -1. https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/issues/1609",
          "2026-09-30. CVE-2026-51852 and CVE-2026-51853, directory traversal in the file browser of versions 1.7 to 1.10, CVSS 7.5 each. Reported as issues #1539 and #1540 on 20 April 2026 and closed as completed on 24 July 2026. The file browser still starts at the container root by design. -1. https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/issues/1540",
          "2026-09-09. Two flaws recorded in the project's own security-review ledger and fixed in v2.12 the same day. An unauthenticated Telegram webhook accepted forged updates, and WhatsApp document names could overwrite files outside the media cache before the sender check ran. The ledger rates both high. Named in the release notes, with no advisory. -2. https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/blob/main/security-review/LEDGER.md"
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        "verdict": "Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with nine releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026 and breaking changes listed in the release notes. The agent runs shell commands in its container with no approval step, the web interface has no login by default, and five CVEs from the past year have no published GitHub advisory.",
        "bestFor": "A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT licence, with prompts, tools, plugins and settings readable and editable in one public repository",
          "Nine tagged releases between 17 July and 23 September 2026, and Breaking Changes sections in the v2.11, v2.12 and v2.13 notes",
          "Memory dashboard to search, edit, delete and bulk-delete entries, with memory kept apart for each project by default",
          "No usage telemetry found in the source. The one call home is an update check that a setting turns off",
          "Tool Access policy can allow or block each built-in and MCP tool for a project or an agent profile"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No approval step before shell commands, file changes or outgoing messages. Tool Access defaults to allow",
          "The web interface has no login until the owner sets a username, and the README command publishes port 80",
          "Five CVEs published between 17 March and 30 September 2026, none as a GitHub advisory, and no SECURITY.md or security.txt",
          "Infection Check, the prompt-injection audit before tool calls, ships turned off",
          "Empty allow-lists in the Telegram, WhatsApp and email integrations accept messages from anyone",
          "No public CI runs the 191 test files. The only workflows publish Docker images and close inactive issues"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set a UI login and password in Settings before publishing the port or opening a tunnel. The default has none",
          "Fill `allowed_users`, `allowed_numbers` or `sender_whitelist` before enabling a channel. An empty list accepts every sender",
          "Enable the Infection Check plugin when the agent reads mail, web pages or MCP results. It ships disabled",
          "Run v2.12 or later. It fixes a Telegram webhook authentication bypass and a WhatsApp media path traversal",
          "Call `POST /api_message` with the `X-API-KEY` header. The token changes when the UI login or password changes"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 54.2
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 75,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 57,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 54,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "provenanceScore": 53
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        "install": "docker run -p 80:80 -v a0_usr:/a0/usr agent0ai/agent-zero   # or: curl -fsSL https://bash.agent-zero.ai | bash"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/agent-zero"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Agent Zero, s.r.o.",
        "domain": "agent-zero.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The site footer names Agent Zero, s.r.o., ID no. 231 46 508, Nové sady 988/2, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic, and the `LICENSE` file carries the same company's copyright.",
          "No terms or privacy policy for the software was found. The site's terms page covers its community platform and its cookie page covers the website, so neither is linked here and the MIT licence stands in.",
          "`/.well-known/security.txt` on www.agent-zero.ai answered 404 on 12 October 2026, and the repository has no SECURITY.md.",
          "robots.txt on www.agent-zero.ai answered 404, read as no rules. agent-zero.ai redirects to www.agent-zero.ai.",
          "There is no hosted endpoint. An instance answers on its owner's own host.",
          "The domain's registration date was not looked up."
        ],
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      },
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            "registry": "github",
            "name": "agent0ai/agent-zero",
            "version": "v2.14",
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        ],
        "githubStars": 19498,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://agent-zero.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:54:26.814980788Z"
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        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://www.agent-zero.ai/llms.txt",
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          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T14:23:51.894640817Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "agent-zero.ai",
          "registered": "2025-01-26",
          "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/agent-zero.ai",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:33:13.502705155Z"
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    },
    "answer": "Agent Zero scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "slug": "junie",
      "name": "Junie CLI",
      "vendor": "JetBrains",
      "vendorUrl": "https://junie.jetbrains.com",
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      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "JetBrains' coding agent for the terminal, run as `junie`. It plans, edits files, runs commands and calls MCP servers, with an action allowlist, one-shot headless runs with JSON output for CI and an ACP mode for editors.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/junie.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/JetBrains/junie",
      "license": "Proprietary, JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service. The GitHub repository holds the README, release binaries and the issue tracker, not source",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@jetbrains/junie"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A JetBrains Account through a browser, a Junie API key (`JUNIE_API_KEY` or `--auth`) created at junie.jetbrains.com/cli for headless runs, or BYOK provider keys and custom endpoints, which need no JetBrains AI subscription.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Junie Lite is free with any JetBrains account, needs no card and has no published quota. JetBrains AI Pro is $10 a month ($100 a year) with 10 AI Credits and AI Ultimate $30 a month ($300 a year) with 35, where one credit is US$1. BYOK use is billed by the provider with no JetBrains markup. Per-model credit rates weren't found (checked 2026-10-18).",
      "priceSummary": "$10 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Junie docs, the JetBrains AI terms or the pricing on junie.jetbrains.com (checked 2026-10-18).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": 3153,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-18"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli.html",
      "llmsTxt": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "closed-source",
        "mcp",
        "acp",
        "llms-txt",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "hooks",
        "subagents"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-16",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 53.2,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 804,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1146,
        "categoryRank": 31,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 55,
          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 42,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 62,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 78
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-18"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-15. CVE-2026-111091, high (CVSS 7.8, CWE-829). Code execution was possible through an untrusted project's MCP server configuration in Junie CLI before 26.8.3. Fixed and published through NVD and JetBrains' fixed-issues page, inside six months (https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=Junie). -2",
          "2026-04-17. CVE-2026-41153, medium (CVSS 5.8 from JetBrains). Command execution through a malicious project file in JetBrains Junie before 252.549.29, a plugin build number. Judgement call, 1 point, since the IDE plugin and the CLI run the same agent per JetBrains' 17 June 2026 post. Fixed and published (https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?keywordSearch=Junie). -1"
        ],
        "verdict": "Runs headless with JSON output, speaks ACP, and works with JetBrains AI plans, a free Junie Lite tier, the owner's own provider keys or a local endpoint. Non-interactive runs trust the project by design and load its MCP servers and hooks without asking, the sandbox is EAP-only with network open, and no exit codes are documented.",
        "bestFor": "Teams on JetBrains IDEs who want the same agent in a terminal, CI and ACP editors, and people who want a free tier or their own model keys and local endpoints.",
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          "An action allowlist that asks before terminal commands, MCP tools, outside edits and secret-file reads, and checks each part of chained and nested commands",
          "Headless runs with text, json or json-stream output, piped JSON input, `--session-id` and `--resume`",
          "ACP mode (`junie --acp true`) for editors, plus a GitHub Action and GitLab CI integration",
          "Junie Lite is a free model tier with no card, and BYOK keys or a local endpoint avoid JetBrains billing",
          "Install scripts check SHA-256 sums from a published release feed, and releases ship weekly"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "One-shot, piped, ACP and Gateway runs trust the project by design and load its MCP servers, hooks, agents and skills without a prompt",
          "Sandbox mode is EAP-only, off by default, absent on Windows, and leaves network access open by default",
          "No documented exit codes, output schema or turn and spend cap for headless runs",
          "CVE-2026-111091 (published 15 October 2026, high) allowed code execution through an untrusted project's MCP configuration before 26.8.3",
          "Closed source, and the CLI's default for anonymous usage statistics isn't stated"
        ],
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          "Run headless only in repositories you trust. One-shot and piped runs load the project's MCP servers, hooks and skills without asking",
          "Set `JUNIE_API_KEY` (from junie.jetbrains.com/cli) or a provider key such as `JUNIE_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in CI. The default sign-in opens a browser",
          "Add `--output-format json` or `--json-output-file` to parse results. Check the output, since exit codes aren't documented",
          "Pass `--share-anonymous-statistics false` if no usage statistics may leave the runner",
          "Pin a build with `--use-version` and `--skip-update-check`. The CLI updates itself on start by default"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.8,
        "history": [
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 53.2
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 72,
          "payments": 42,
          "reliability": 45,
          "schema": 62,
          "security": 56,
          "transparency": 57
        },
        "provenanceScore": 99
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://junie.jetbrains.com/install.sh | bash",
        "headless": {
          "acp": "junie --acp true",
          "review": "junie --auth=\"$JUNIE_API_KEY\" --review",
          "run": "junie --auth=\"$JUNIE_API_KEY\" \"Fix any failing tests\""
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      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/junie"
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      "sameCompany": [
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      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "JetBrains AI Pro",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 10,
          "note": "per user, 10 AI Credits every 30 days, $100 a year"
        },
        {
          "item": "JetBrains AI Ultimate",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 30,
          "note": "per user, 35 AI Credits every 30 days, $300 a year"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "JetBrains s.r.o.",
        "domain": "jetbrains.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2001-11-09",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai-service/",
        "privacy": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/privacy/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://status.jetbrains.cloud",
        "changelog": "https://junie.jetbrains.com/whats-new",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-18",
        "notes": [
          "The README says JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, with use under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service (version 2.1, effective 30 September 2025, titled for AI Assistant and Junie).",
          "RDAP (Verisign) gives jetbrains.com a registration date of 2001-11-09. Junie's site is junie.jetbrains.com.",
          "www.jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt has a Contact and a Policy line and no Expires line, which RFC 9116 requires. The site's tracker reads a file with a Contact and no Expires as valid. junie.jetbrains.com/.well-known/security.txt answers 404.",
          "status.jetbrains.cloud (incident.io) covers JetBrains AI and its model providers, with no Junie component.",
          "The CLI runs on the owner's machine. Model calls go to JetBrains AI, the owner's provider or a local endpoint, so there is no single vendor endpoint."
        ],
        "score": 99
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "junie",
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.jetbrains.cloud",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T00:05:24.10584297Z"
        },
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            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:12.838843498Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
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            "kind": "privacy",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:44:49.759359206Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.jetbrains.com/legal/docs/terms/jetbrains-ai-service/",
            "kind": "terms",
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        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Agent Zero, s.r.o.",
        "b": "JetBrains",
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      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
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      {
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        "name": "Transports"
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      {
        "a": "None",
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        "name": "Auth"
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        "a": "Free",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "no",
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        "b": "2026-06-12",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
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        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
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        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
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        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
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        "a": "19k stars",
        "b": "487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "2.8/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
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    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Agent Zero scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Agent Zero or Junie CLI?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Agent Zero is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Junie CLI.",
        "question": "Are Agent Zero and Junie CLI open source?"
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  "markdown": "Agent Zero scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Agent Zero: grade C, 54.2/100, rank #775 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agent-zero.json\n- Junie CLI: grade D, 53.2/100, rank #804 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/junie.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Agent Zero (C)\n\nGood for: A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 57 against 45\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 42\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No approval step before shell commands, file changes or outgoing messages. Tool Access defaults to allow\n\n### Junie CLI (D)\n\nGood for: Teams on JetBrains IDEs who want the same agent in a terminal, CI and ACP editors, and people who want a free tier or their own model keys and local endpoints.\n\nAhead on:\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 78 against 55\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: One-shot, piped, ACP and Gateway runs trust the project by design and load its MCP servers, hooks, agents and skills without a prompt\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Agent Zero | Junie CLI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 45 | Agent Zero +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 62 | Agent Zero +2 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 55 | Agent Zero +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 56 | Junie CLI +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 42 | Agent Zero +18 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 72 | Agent Zero +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 78 | Junie CLI +23 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -6 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.2 · C** | **53.2 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Agent Zero | Junie CLI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | JetBrains |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary, JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service. The GitHub repository holds the README, release binaries and the issue tracker, not source |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-12 |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | 19k stars | 487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Agent Zero.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with nine releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026 and breaking changes listed in the release notes. The agent runs shell commands in its container with no approval step, the web interface has no login by default, and five CVEs from the past year have no published GitHub advisory.\n\n**Junie CLI.** Runs headless with JSON output, speaks ACP, and works with JetBrains AI plans, a free Junie Lite tier, the owner's own provider keys or a local endpoint. Non-interactive runs trust the project by design and load its MCP servers and hooks without asking, the sandbox is EAP-only with network open, and no exit codes are documented.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Agent Zero\n\n1. Set a UI login and password in Settings before publishing the port or opening a tunnel. The default has none\n2. Fill `allowed_users`, `allowed_numbers` or `sender_whitelist` before enabling a channel. An empty list accepts every sender\n3. Enable the Infection Check plugin when the agent reads mail, web pages or MCP results. It ships disabled\n4. Run v2.12 or later. It fixes a Telegram webhook authentication bypass and a WhatsApp media path traversal\n5. Call `POST /api_message` with the `X-API-KEY` header. The token changes when the UI login or password changes\n\n### Junie CLI\n\n1. Run headless only in repositories you trust. One-shot and piped runs load the project's MCP servers, hooks and skills without asking\n2. Set `JUNIE_API_KEY` (from junie.jetbrains.com/cli) or a provider key such as `JUNIE_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` in CI. The default sign-in opens a browser\n3. Add `--output-format json` or `--json-output-file` to parse results. Check the output, since exit codes aren't documented\n4. Pass `--share-anonymous-statistics false` if no usage statistics may leave the runner\n5. Pin a build with `--use-version` and `--skip-update-check`. The CLI updates itself on start by default\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Agent Zero or Junie CLI?\n\nAgent Zero scores 54.2 (C) on agent readiness against Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Agent Zero and Junie CLI open source?\n\nAgent Zero is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Junie CLI.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-junie.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-junie.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"agent-zero\", \"b\": \"junie\"}`. 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