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

Asmi vs OpenClaw

OpenClaw scores 67.1 (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 OpenClawOpenClaw Foundation · Agent harness B67.1/100#270 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
  • No incidents deducted, where OpenClaw loses 8 points for them

Watch for

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

OpenClaw B

Best for A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 75 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 84 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 77 against 43
  • Security & auth, 74 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 86 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 51

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiOpenClawEdge
Reliability16%203075OpenClaw +45
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22084OpenClaw +64
Agent ergonomics13%16.24377OpenClaw +34
Security & auth14%17.54974OpenClaw +25
Payments & pricing10%12.53060OpenClaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8386OpenClaw +83
Transparency & trust7%8.85168OpenClaw +17
Negative events≤150-8
TotalF 33.3/100B 67.1/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiOpenClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.OpenClaw Foundation
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
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 releasenone2026-10-12
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
Popularitynone392k 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.

OpenClaw

Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical.

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.

OpenClaw

  1. Set a session permission mode of guarded or workspace, or tools.exec.mode, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval
  2. Turn on agents.defaults.sandbox for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default
  3. Set tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders and allowWithinProvider to false to confine sends to the current conversation
  4. Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny gateway, cron, sessions_spawn and sessions_send for it
  5. Run openclaw security audit after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. POST /tools/invoke accepts it with full operator access

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or OpenClaw?

OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Asmi and OpenClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. OpenClaw 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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