{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "agent-zero", "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", "dns": "agent-zero.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "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" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python", "mit", "llms-txt", "docker" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1168, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 47, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 60, "reliability": 57, "schema": 64, "security": 54, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -15, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-08-27 to 2026-09-23. Breaking changes in minor releases of the `agent0ai/agent-zero` image with notice only in the release notes of the day. v2.11 (27 August) made LiteLLM default to Chat Completions, v2.12 (9 September) made `hist_add_ai_response` require an `llm_result`, and v2.13 (23 September) dropped `runtime=input` for remote execution with \"No compatibility alias\". Repeats fold into one term, -3 (https://www.agent-zero.ai/p/articles/agent-zero-v2-13/).", "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, -3 (https://github.com/agent0ai/agent-zero/blob/main/security-review/LEDGER.md).", "2026-03-17 to 2026-10-22. Eight CVEs against Agent Zero, counted one by one, none published by the vendor. CVE-2026-97635 (CISA, 22 October, Web UI XSS before 1.15, CVSS 4.0 8.6, fixed) 2. CVE-2026-51852 and CVE-2026-51853 (MITRE, 30 September, file browser directory traversal in 1.7 to 1.10, CISA-ADP 7.5 each, reports closed as completed) 2 each. CVE-2026-30624 (MITRE, 15 April, MCP server configuration runs arbitrary commands in 0.9.8, 8.6, no fix listed) 2. CVE-2026-47118 (VulnCheck, 27 May, image_get path traversal before 1.15, 7.1, fixed) 1. VulDB's CVE-2026-4308 (6.3, fixed in v2.9) and VulnCheck's CVE-2026-47119 (5.3, fixed) are fixed third-party Mediums and cost 0, and VulDB's CVE-2026-4307 (4.3, fix not established) is an unfixed third-party Medium, left uncounted. -9 (https://osv.dev/list?q=agent-zero, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5)." ], "verdict": "Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with seven releases from 12 August to 1 November 2026 and breaking changes listed in minor-release notes. The agent runs shell commands in its container with no approval step, the web interface has no login by default, and eight CVEs from the past year were published by third parties with no vendor 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", "Seven tagged releases from 12 August to 1 November 2026, with 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 whose settings page says what it sends and turns it 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", "Eight CVEs published between 17 March and 22 October 2026, all assigned by third parties, with no vendor advisory, 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 245 files under tests/. The only workflows publish Docker images and close inactive issues", "Minor releases v2.11, v2.12 and v2.13 removed or changed behaviour on release day, one with no compatibility alias" ], "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": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 60, "reliability": 57, "schema": 64, "security": 54, "transparency": 66 }, "provenanceScore": 61, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "lastMoved": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "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": "2026-11-04", "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 still had no SECURITY.md on 4 November 2026.", "robots.txt on www.agent-zero.ai answered 404 again on 4 November 2026, 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." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.json", "live": { "slug": "agent-zero", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "agent0ai/agent-zero", "version": "v2.15", "released": "2026-11-01", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:03:10.585709292Z" } ], "githubStars": 19771, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://agent-zero.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:55.812233933Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.agent-zero.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:31:05.677359332Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "agent-zero.ai", "registered": "2025-01-26", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/agent-zero.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:14:52.629038357Z" }, "github": { "repo": "agent0ai/agent-zero", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:28:32.546659925Z", "stars": 19645, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-01T23:18:27Z", "openIssues": 59, "openPRs": 82, "issuesOpened90d": 71, "issuesClosed90d": 102, "prsMerged90d": 37, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 46, "failure": 3, "other": 1, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-11-01T23:52:44Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 7.5 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:55.812233933Z" } }, "answer": "Agent Zero scores 46 (D) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "verdent", "name": "Verdent", "vendor": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Verdent is a coding agent from Verdent AI, Inc., with a desktop app for macOS and Windows, VS Code and JetBrains extensions and a browser edition. It plans tasks, runs parallel workers in git worktrees and uses MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json", "dns": "verdent.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in to a Verdent account with Google, GitHub or email in a browser. Model use runs on Verdent credits through llm-proxy.verdent.ai, or on the user's own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter key (BYOK). BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI with keys kept on the machine. No API key or token for driving Verdent from another program was found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "From $5 a month (Lite), then $19 Starter, $59 Pro and $179 Max with 320, 1,000 and 3,000 credits a month (doubled by a limited-time bonus). One credit is about $0.059 at provider rates. Top-ups $20 for 340 credits to $200 for 3,400. Free Mode and the free trial ended with v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026.", "priceSummary": "$5 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, pricing page, terms or changelog (checked 2026-11-06). Subscriptions and top-ups go through Stripe.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "closed-source", "desktop", "vscode", "jetbrains", "mcp", "byok", "paid-plans", "no-sandbox" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 39.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1317, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 53, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 35, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 55, "security": 33, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-11-06. The changelog says v2.18.0 of 29 October 2026 retired Free Mode, the free trial and the 100 welcome credits, while the pricing page FAQ read on 6 November still says \"Your free trial includes 100 credits\" and the 1.0 docs overview still lists a free trial. A stale claim on the vendor's own pricing page, 2 points. https://www.verdent.ai/pricing, https://www.verdent.ai/changelog" ], "verdict": "A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.", "bestFor": "A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.", "strengths": [ "Plan Mode is read-only and writes a plan.md for review before Agent Mode makes changes", "Parallel workers each run in their own git worktree, with a review column before work is accepted", "BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys", "Plan, top-up and per-credit prices are public, charged at provider token rates with no markup per the pricing page", "Every current docs page has a Markdown twin, and the changelog is dated by version" ], "weaknesses": [ "No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot", "No sandbox or network restriction documented, and the actions that need approval aren't listed", "Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, while the pricing page FAQ still promises 100 trial credits", "Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods", "SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and there is no bug bounty or security.txt" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode", "Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode", "Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape", "Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox", "Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 39.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 35, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 55, "security": 33, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 62, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "github": { "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/verdent" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lite plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 5, "note": "Eco Mode models and light usage" }, { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "320 credits a month, 480 with the limited-time bonus" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 59, "note": "1,000 credits a month, 1,500 with the bonus" }, { "item": "Max plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 179, "note": "3,000 credits a month, 4,500 with the bonus" }, { "item": "Credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.059, "note": "About $0.059, charged at provider token prices with no markup per the pricing page" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "domain": "verdent.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-05-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The privacy policy names Verdent AI, Inc. as data controller, and the terms choose California law.", "The terms forbid users to crawl, scrape or otherwise harvest data or information from the Services. Public pages were read once each.", "www.verdent.ai/robots.txt allows all crawlers.", "RDAP gives verdent.ai a registration date of 6 May 2025.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.verdent.ai did not answer. No status page found.", "The security page says SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and takes vulnerability reports at hi@verdent.ai with acknowledgement within five business days." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.json", "live": { "slug": "verdent", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://verdent.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:28.662063151Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bac05e4e426e" }, { "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:31.354667853Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3ec1d3c07d70" }, { "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:33.295376926Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "206b6ec23a6a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 40, "category": "payments", "leads": "agent-zero", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the self-hosted rule. No payment protocol in the source (0). Free under MIT with nothing to buy for the software, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. It starts with one Docker command and no account. Model usage is billed by whichever provider the owner configures, or costs nothing with a local model. The vendor's site also describes a beta LLM API whose daily quota depends on staking its A0T token. That is separate from the software and not scored.", "b": "Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 20 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "agent-zero", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading, scored on what a person or program driving it must supply. Skills load on demand, blocked tools are removed from the prompt, chats can be compacted, and the v2.12 notes report Codex input falling from about 16.4K to 11.3K tokens, a vendor figure (18 of 25). An MCP tool timeout of 120 seconds, a limit of five consecutive unusable responses and context-window handling are set by default. No turn or spend limit was found in the reviewed docs (11 of 20). Other programs reach it through `POST /api_message`, an optional MCP server, A2A and an ACP bridge, with request and response shapes left to the source (11 of 20). An error-retry plugin, saved chats, a message queue, backups and Time Travel snapshots with diff and revert (14 of 20). One Docker command starts it and a wizard sets the model, but there is no SDK and the default has no login (8 of 15).", "b": "Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35." }, "scores": { "a": 62, "b": 35 } }, { "by": 21, "category": "security", "leads": "agent-zero", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, the one the Goose calibration dossier uses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. No usage telemetry was found in the source. An update check, on by default, posts the version and a 20-character SHA-256 hash of a random per-install id to api.agent-zero.ai. The Update Checker settings page says only that ID and the version are sent and has an off switch. Something still leaves the machine by default, so the partial is kept (22). The agent works inside a Docker container built on Kali Linux and runs as root there. Tool Access can block tools by project or profile and defaults to allow, host access through the A0 CLI is scoped by read, write and execute permissions, and no approval step was found before a shell command, a file deletion or an outgoing message. The web interface has no login until a username is set (10). Infection Check audits the agent's reasoning with a second model before each tool call and ships disabled. Scanners check plugins, skills and MCP servers before install. The channel allow-lists accept every sender when empty, and the email filter matches the claimed From address only, which the plugin README states (7). Chat logs, visible tool steps and Time Travel snapshots, with no per-call audit log. Per-process log files were removed in v2.5 (9). No SECURITY.md on 4 November, security.txt answered 404 on 12 October, and none of the eight CVEs published from 17 March to 22 October 2026 came from the vendor (VulDB, VulnCheck, MITRE and CISA assigned them). A security-review ledger in the repository records two findings, and the v2.12 notes name both fixes (6, a partial kept).", "b": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33." }, "scores": { "a": 54, "b": 33 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "reliability", "leads": "agent-zero", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read with the local-software lines, as software the owner runs. Installs from the `agent0ai/agent-zero` Docker image, an install script, or a desktop Launcher with builds for macOS, Linux and Windows on x86 and ARM64. The README says it runs wherever Docker runs. The image registry page was not read (17 of 20). The repository holds 245 files under tests/ on 4 November, and its only two workflows still publish Docker images and close inactive issues. The publish workflow runs no tests, so no public CI run shows them passing (5 of 25, a partial kept). 139 open issues and pull requests on 12 October 2026, per that check (GitHub's pages and API weren't read on 4 November). Open reports from September include a crash of `run_ui` after a failed memory consolidation (#1909), a browser worker that hangs the agent turn (#1923) and truncated backups (#1904), each with no reply or one, and a workflow closes anything inactive for 90 days (11 of 25). Release notes for v2.11, v2.12 and v2.13 carry a Breaking Changes section, but breaking changes ship in minor versions, so the numbering is not semver (9 of 15). v2.15, past 1.0 (15).", "b": "Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43." }, "scores": { "a": 57, "b": 43 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "agent-zero", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v2.15 was tagged on 1 November 2026, 3 days before this check (30). Seven releases from 6 August, v2.9 on 12 August to v2.15, read from the clone's tags (20). Of the 40 newest open items read on 12 October, 16 are issues and 14 of those have no comment. Three security reports filed as issues were closed as completed, one in five days and two after three months. GitHub's issue pages weren't read on 4 November, so this is per the 12 October check (10 of 25). The Docker image, the desktop Launcher, the install scripts and the A0 CLI connector come from the same organisation, and the v2.14 notes point the README's Launcher links to v1.9 (10 of 15). A Docker publish workflow builds images from tags, and the v2.14 notes raise dependency security floors for aiohttp, anyio, urllib3, filelock, fsspec and multidict. No public test CI (5 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 75.", "b": "Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 61 } }, { "by": 9, "category": "schema", "leads": "agent-zero", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading of the lines, as the Goose calibration dossier does. No OpenAPI file. The connectivity page lists five external endpoints and the `X-API-KEY` header, then sends readers to the source or DeepWiki for request and response details. Each API handler and tool has a `.dox.md` contract file in the repository, and the MCP client JSON shape is documented (10 of 25). llms.txt at www.agent-zero.ai, and AGENTS.md contract files across the repository (10). Guides say which path to use for a need, with tables that separate the browser, the host connector, MCP and A2A (14 of 20). The v2.12 notes say 15 bundled tools gained argument descriptions in non-strict schemas, and plugin settings are typed YAML with commented examples (8 of 15). Guides carry worked examples and a troubleshooting page, with no documented error responses for the external API (9 of 15). Dated notes on every GitHub release and a release article for each version on the site, with no version prefix on API routes (13 of 15).", "b": "Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55." }, "scores": { "a": 64, "b": 55 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Agent Zero, s.r.o.", "b": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-01", "b": "2026-10-29", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-05-25", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-05-26", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "19k stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Agent Zero scores 46 (D) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Agent Zero or Verdent?" }, { "answer": "Agent Zero is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Verdent.", "question": "Are Agent Zero and Verdent open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 57 against 43", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 64 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 62 against 35", "Security \u0026 auth, 54 against 33", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 61", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 55" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory.", "slug": "agent-zero", "watchFor": "No approval step before shell commands, file changes or outgoing messages. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-verdent.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-verdent.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Orca vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Paseo vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Qoder CLI vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Qwen Code vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Mirror CLI vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rovo-dev-cli-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Rovo Dev CLI vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rovo-dev-cli-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Sculptor vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/t3-code-vs-verdent.json", "title": "T3 Code vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/t3-code-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/traycer-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Traycer vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/traycer-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Verdent vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-warp.json", "title": "Verdent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Clawboo vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-verdent.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Harness vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-verdent.json", "title": "OpenMausBot vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Parallax vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unstoppable-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Unstoppable vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unstoppable-vs-verdent" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "agent-zero": 57, "by": 14, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "verdent": 43, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agent-zero": 64, "by": 9, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "verdent": 55, "weight": 13 }, { "agent-zero": 62, "by": 27, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "verdent": 35, "weight": 13 }, { "agent-zero": 54, "by": 21, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "verdent": 33, "weight": 14 }, { "agent-zero": 60, "by": 40, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "verdent": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agent-zero": 75, "by": 14, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "verdent": 61, "weight": 7 }, { "agent-zero": 64, "by": 9, "edge": "agent-zero", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "verdent": 55, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Agent Zero scores 46 (D) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "agent-zero": "Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with seven releases from 12 August to 1 November 2026 and breaking changes listed in minor-release notes. The agent runs shell commands in its container with no approval step, the web interface has no login by default, and eight CVEs from the past year were published by third parties with no vendor advisory.", "verdent": "A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent.min.md" }, "markdown": "Agent Zero scores 46 (D) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Agent Zero: grade D, 46/100, rank #1168 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agent-zero.json\n- Verdent: grade E, 39.7/100, rank #1317 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Agent Zero (D)\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 43\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 64 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 54 against 33\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 61\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 55\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### Verdent (E)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.\n\nWatch for: No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Agent Zero +40\n\n- Agent Zero (60): Read with the self-hosted rule. No payment protocol in the source (0). Free under MIT with nothing to buy for the software, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. It starts with one Docker command and no account. Model usage is billed by whichever provider the owner configures, or costs nothing with a local model. The vendor's site also describes a beta LLM API whose daily quota depends on staking its A0T token. That is separate from the software and not scored.\n- Verdent (20): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Agent Zero +27\n\n- Agent Zero (62): Harness reading, scored on what a person or program driving it must supply. Skills load on demand, blocked tools are removed from the prompt, chats can be compacted, and the v2.12 notes report Codex input falling from about 16.4K to 11.3K tokens, a vendor figure (18 of 25). An MCP tool timeout of 120 seconds, a limit of five consecutive unusable responses and context-window handling are set by default. No turn or spend limit was found in the reviewed docs (11 of 20). Other programs reach it through `POST /api_message`, an optional MCP server, A2A and an ACP bridge, with request and response shapes left to the source (11 of 20). An error-retry plugin, saved chats, a message queue, backups and Time Travel snapshots with diff and revert (14 of 20). One Docker command starts it and a wizard sets the model, but there is no SDK and the default has no login (8 of 15).\n- Verdent (35): Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Agent Zero +21\n\n- Agent Zero (54): Harness reading of the framework checklist, the one the Goose calibration dossier uses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. No usage telemetry was found in the source. An update check, on by default, posts the version and a 20-character SHA-256 hash of a random per-install id to api.agent-zero.ai. The Update Checker settings page says only that ID and the version are sent and has an off switch. Something still leaves the machine by default, so the partial is kept (22). The agent works inside a Docker container built on Kali Linux and runs as root there. Tool Access can block tools by project or profile and defaults to allow, host access through the A0 CLI is scoped by read, write and execute permissions, and no approval step was found before a shell command, a file deletion or an outgoing message. The web interface has no login until a username is set (10). Infection Check audits the agent's reasoning with a second model before each tool call and ships disabled. Scanners check plugins, skills and MCP servers before install. The channel allow-lists accept every sender when empty, and the email filter matches the claimed From address only, which the plugin README states (7). Chat logs, visible tool steps and Time Travel snapshots, with no per-call audit log. Per-process log files were removed in v2.5 (9). No SECURITY.md on 4 November, security.txt answered 404 on 12 October, and none of the eight CVEs published from 17 March to 22 October 2026 came from the vendor (VulDB, VulnCheck, MITRE and CISA assigned them). A security-review ledger in the repository records two findings, and the v2.12 notes name both fixes (6, a partial kept).\n- Verdent (33): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33.\n\n### Reliability: Agent Zero +14\n\n- Agent Zero (57): Read with the local-software lines, as software the owner runs. Installs from the `agent0ai/agent-zero` Docker image, an install script, or a desktop Launcher with builds for macOS, Linux and Windows on x86 and ARM64. The README says it runs wherever Docker runs. The image registry page was not read (17 of 20). The repository holds 245 files under tests/ on 4 November, and its only two workflows still publish Docker images and close inactive issues. The publish workflow runs no tests, so no public CI run shows them passing (5 of 25, a partial kept). 139 open issues and pull requests on 12 October 2026, per that check (GitHub's pages and API weren't read on 4 November). Open reports from September include a crash of `run_ui` after a failed memory consolidation (#1909), a browser worker that hangs the agent turn (#1923) and truncated backups (#1904), each with no reply or one, and a workflow closes anything inactive for 90 days (11 of 25). Release notes for v2.11, v2.12 and v2.13 carry a Breaking Changes section, but breaking changes ship in minor versions, so the numbering is not semver (9 of 15). v2.15, past 1.0 (15).\n- Verdent (43): Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Agent Zero +14\n\n- Agent Zero (75): v2.15 was tagged on 1 November 2026, 3 days before this check (30). Seven releases from 6 August, v2.9 on 12 August to v2.15, read from the clone's tags (20). Of the 40 newest open items read on 12 October, 16 are issues and 14 of those have no comment. Three security reports filed as issues were closed as completed, one in five days and two after three months. GitHub's issue pages weren't read on 4 November, so this is per the 12 October check (10 of 25). The Docker image, the desktop Launcher, the install scripts and the A0 CLI connector come from the same organisation, and the v2.14 notes point the README's Launcher links to v1.9 (10 of 15). A Docker publish workflow builds images from tags, and the v2.14 notes raise dependency security floors for aiohttp, anyio, urllib3, filelock, fsspec and multidict. No public test CI (5 of 10). 30 + 20 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 75.\n- Verdent (61): Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Agent Zero +9\n\n- Agent Zero (64): Harness reading of the lines, as the Goose calibration dossier does. No OpenAPI file. The connectivity page lists five external endpoints and the `X-API-KEY` header, then sends readers to the source or DeepWiki for request and response details. Each API handler and tool has a `.dox.md` contract file in the repository, and the MCP client JSON shape is documented (10 of 25). llms.txt at www.agent-zero.ai, and AGENTS.md contract files across the repository (10). Guides say which path to use for a need, with tables that separate the browser, the host connector, MCP and A2A (14 of 20). The v2.12 notes say 15 bundled tools gained argument descriptions in non-strict schemas, and plugin settings are typed YAML with commented examples (8 of 15). Guides carry worked examples and a troubleshooting page, with no documented error responses for the external API (9 of 15). Dated notes on every GitHub release and a release article for each version on the site, with no version prefix on API routes (13 of 15).\n- Verdent (55): Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Agent Zero | Verdent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 57 | 43 | Agent Zero +14 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 55 | Agent Zero +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 35 | Agent Zero +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 33 | Agent Zero +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 20 | Agent Zero +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 61 | Agent Zero +14 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 55 | Agent Zero +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -15 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **46 · D** | **39.7 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Agent Zero | Verdent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | Verdent AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-01 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-05-26 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 19k stars | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Agent Zero\n\n- -8.6 on 4 November 2026 (C to D): correction\n- +0.3 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Verdent\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Agent Zero.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with seven releases from 12 August to 1 November 2026 and breaking changes listed in minor-release notes. The agent runs shell commands in its container with no approval step, the web interface has no login by default, and eight CVEs from the past year were published by third parties with no vendor advisory.\n\n**Verdent.** A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.\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### Verdent\n\n1. Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode\n2. Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode\n3. Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape\n4. Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox\n5. Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Agent Zero or Verdent?\n\nAgent Zero scores 46 (D) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Agent Zero and Verdent open source?\n\nAgent Zero is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Verdent.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"agent-zero\", \"b\": \"verdent\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agent-zero verdent`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agent-zero.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Agent Zero or Verdent\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Aider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-aider.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Amp](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-amp.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Antigravity CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-antigravity-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Auggie CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-auggie.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs AXLR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-axlr.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-claude-code.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cline.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Conductor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-conductor.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-crush.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-deepseek-harness.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-deepseek-superagent.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-devin.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Droid CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-droid-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Pi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-earendil-pi.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Emdash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-emdash.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Gemini CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-gemini-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs GitHub Copilot CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-github-copilot-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs goose](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-goose.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Harness²](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harness2.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Junie CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-junie.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Kilo Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-kilo-code-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Kimi Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-kimi-code-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Kiro CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-kiro-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Letta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-letta.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs mini-swe-agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-mini-swe-agent.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs MiniMax Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-minimax-code.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Mistral Vibe CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Muse Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-muse-code.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs OpenAI Agents API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-openai-agents-api.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-openai-codex.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs OpenCode](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-opencode.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs OpenMausBot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-openmausbot.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Orca](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-orca.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Paseo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-paseo.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Qoder CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-qoder-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Rovo Dev CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-rovo-dev-cli.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-sculptor.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs T3 Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-t3-code.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Traycer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-traycer.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Unstoppable](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-unstoppable.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Vibe-Trading](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-vibe-trading.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-warp.md)\n- [Aider vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Amp vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-verdent.md)\n- [AXLR vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Claude Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Cline vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Conductor vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Crush vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Cursor CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-verdent.md)\n- [dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Devin vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Droid CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Pi vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Emdash vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emdash-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Gemini CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [GitHub Copilot CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [goose vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Harness² vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-verdent.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Jules vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Junie CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Kilo Code CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Kimi Code CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Kiro CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Letta vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letta-vs-verdent.md)\n- [mini-swe-agent vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-verdent.md)\n- [MiniMax Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Mistral Vibe CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Muse Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-verdent.md)\n- [OpenAI Agents API vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-agents-api-vs-verdent.md)\n- [OpenAI Codex vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-verdent.md)\n- [OpenCode vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-verdent.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Orca vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Paseo vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Prime Agent vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Qoder CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Qwen Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Mirror CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-verdent.md)\n- [Rovo Dev 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