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

Asmi vs PicoClaw

PicoClaw scores 46.1 (D) 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 PicoClawSipeed · Agent harness D46.1/100#883 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 PicoClaw loses 7 points for them

Watch for

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

PicoClaw D

Best for A person who wants a chat-app assistant on a cheap Linux board, an old Android phone or a home server, with reminders, web search and file memory, and who accepts running software its maker calls pre-production.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 54 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 51 against 20
  • Agent ergonomics, 66 against 43
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 22 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 56 against 51

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No commit on main since 19 August 2026 and no release since v0.3.1 on 3 July 2026. An issue of 6 October calls the repository unmaintained, with no reply

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAsmiPicoClawEdge
Reliability16%203054PicoClaw +24
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.22051PicoClaw +31
Agent ergonomics13%16.24366PicoClaw +23
Security & auth14%17.54951PicoClaw +2
Payments & pricing10%12.53060PicoClaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8322PicoClaw +19
Transparency & trust7%8.85156PicoClaw +5
Negative events≤150-7
TotalF 33.3/100D 46.1/100

Facts side by side

FactAsmiPicoClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHumint Labs, Inc.Sipeed
Hosted endpointhttps://prod.asmiai.com/mcp/claude/no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuthNone
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 documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2026-07-03
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
Popularitynone30k 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.

PicoClaw

Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with 19 documented chat channels, scheduled and heartbeat tasks, and local file memory. The repository has had no commit since 19 August 2026 and no release since 3 July, and 15 CVEs are listed against it with no advisory or security policy from the project.

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.

PicoClaw

  1. Set allow_from to the owner's user ID on every channel before starting the gateway. An empty list accepts messages from anyone
  2. Set tools.exec.allow_remote to false unless chats must run shell commands. The shipped default is true, whatever docs/guides/configuration.md says
  3. Set isolation.enabled to true on Linux (needs bwrap) or run in a container. The deny patterns do not inspect child processes
  4. Use PICOCLAW_KEY_PASSPHRASE for credential encryption. One docs page names PICOCLAW_CREDENTIAL_PASSPHRASE, which the source does not read
  5. Treat the README's ClawdChat line (read a remote skill file and follow it) as untrusted third-party instructions

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Asmi or PicoClaw?

PicoClaw scores 46.1 (D) on agent readiness against Asmi's 33.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Asmi and PicoClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Asmi. PicoClaw 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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