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Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run

Asmi vs CowAgent

CowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 CowAgentzhayujie · Agent harness C58.5/100#592 of 1010

Which one, for what

Asmi F

Best for An agent that needs phone calls, texts and emails to businesses done for its owner.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 49 against 43
  • Transparency & trust, 51 against 45

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • No incidents deducted, where CowAgent loses 5 points for them

Watch for

Tool JSON Schemas and annotations can't be read before OAuth (unauthenticated initialize returns 401).

CowAgent C

Best for One technical owner who wants an assistant on WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Slack or Discord with memory in local files and a choice of Chinese and Western model providers.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 84 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 67 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 43
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 3

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

Source and Docker installs default to full-access, and no mode asks the owner before a shell command, a file send or an MCP call

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiCowAgentEdge
Reliability16%203084CowAgent +54
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22067CowAgent +47
Agent ergonomics13%16.24359CowAgent +16
Security & auth14%17.54943Asmi +6
Payments & pricing10%12.53060CowAgent +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8383CowAgent +80
Transparency & trust7%8.85145Asmi +6
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 33.3/100C 58.5/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiCowAgent
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.zhayujie
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).MIT
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-09-30
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone47k stars

Verdicts

Asmi

Asmi is a hosted errand service with a 12-tool MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Muse, using OAuth with separate scopes for tracking tasks and for contacting people. Tool schemas sit behind sign-in, the outreach scope is ticked by default, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found.

CowAgent

MIT software with seven releases in 90 days, memory kept as plain files in the owner's workspace and three per-session permission modes. Source and Docker installs default to full-access, no action asks for approval, and an open report of 31 July 2026 says group members could reach the owner's files through the bot.

Before you call either

Asmi

  1. Use the endpoint for your own client (/mcp/claude/, /mcp/openai/ or /mcp/meta/). A token from another client gets 403.
  2. Call discover_search before execute_start, then poll execute_status with the task id instead of starting the task again.
  3. Answer Asmi's questions with execute_advance. Calls already placed can't be recalled by execute_cancel.
  4. Expect outreach_not_permitted if the owner unticked contact people. Ask them to reconnect rather than retrying.
  5. Check billing_status before starting a task, since each outreach task uses one of the month's quota.

CowAgent

  1. Set agent_permission_mode to workspace-write or read-only before connecting any channel. Source and Docker installs default to full-access
  2. Keep the bot out of group chats that include other people. Any member who mentions it reaches the same tools as the owner
  3. Set web_password before changing web_host to 0.0.0.0. The password is empty by default
  4. Set external_api_token to enable POST /v1/chat/completions, and send conversation_id to keep one session. The model field does not select a model
  5. Run it in a container for a hard boundary. The docs and the source both say the permission modes are not isolation

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or CowAgent?

CowAgent scores 58.5 (C) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Asmi leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are Asmi and CowAgent open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. CowAgent is open source (MIT).

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Disclosure

Asmi competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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