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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs Skydive

AstrBot scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C59/100#662 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

AstrBot C

Best for Someone who wants one self-run bot answering on QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Lark or WeCom, in private or group chats, with scheduled tasks, a knowledge base and plugins.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 81 against 41
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 56

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 62
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 54
  • Security & auth, 59 against 44
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 42

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%208141AstrBot +40
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26281Skydive +19
Agent ergonomics13%16.25459Skydive +5
Security & auth14%17.54459Skydive +15
Payments & pricing10%12.56035AstrBot +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88156AstrBot +25
Transparency & trust7%8.84275Skydive +33
Negative events≤15-2-5
TotalC 59/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotSkydive
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsCreate, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterClosed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-09-272026-08-26
Terms last updated2026-01-12couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularity42k stars5.5k npm/wk

Verdicts

AstrBot

Fourteen official messaging adapters, scheduled tasks and scoped API keys come in one AGPL-3.0 program with releases most weeks. No tool call asks for approval, no mail, calendar or long-term memory connector is built in, and usage statistics, including the machine's hostname, are sent by default.

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

Before you call either

AstrBot

  1. Set ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1 before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default
  2. Set dashboard.host to 127.0.0.1 in data/cmd_config.json, or the DASHBOARD_HOST variable, unless remote access is intended. The default is 0.0.0.0
  3. Create an abk_ key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as Authorization: Bearer or X-API-Key
  4. Include username in every POST /api/v1/chat body. Without the chat:admin scope an administrator ID is rejected
  5. Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Skydive?

AstrBot scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Skydive open source?

AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for Skydive.

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Disclosure

Skydive 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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