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

Asmi vs IronClaw

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

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AsmiHumint Labs, Inc. · Platform F33.3/100#973 of 1010 IronClawNEAR AI · Agent harness B66.7/100#288 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.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

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

IronClaw B

Best for One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 43
  • Security & auth, 66 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 74 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 51

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiIronClawEdge
Reliability16%203067IronClaw +37
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22074IronClaw +54
Agent ergonomics13%16.24369IronClaw +26
Security & auth14%17.54966IronClaw +17
Payments & pricing10%12.53060IronClaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8374IronClaw +71
Transparency & trust7%8.85175IronClaw +24
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 33.3/100B 66.7/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiIronClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.NEAR AI
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTPHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Asmi's Terms of Service (Humint Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective October 2026).MIT OR Apache-2.0
Tools exposed12none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-09-29
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone13k 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.

IronClaw

Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as gmail.send_message, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.

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.

IronClaw

  1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts
  2. Install with the release installer and run ironclaw onboard. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory
  3. Call POST /api/v1/responses with the bearer token from ~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds
  4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them
  5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or IronClaw?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Asmi and IronClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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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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