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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Atticus vs Poke

Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do assistants that remember you.

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AtticusSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka) · Platform E42.9/100#977 of 1098 PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#1025 of 1098

Which one, for what

Atticus E

Best for A person on macOS 26 with a Claude Pro or Max plan who wants voice control of apps, windows, files and the browser.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 68 against 51
  • Security & auth, 49 against 24
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 51 against 31

Also in its favour

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

Watch for

No API, MCP server or documented command an outside agent can call

Poke F

Best for One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 42 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 30 against 9

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 1.8 against 1.0 out of 5

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAtticusPokeEdge
Reliability16%206851Atticus +17
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21542Poke +27
Agent ergonomics13%16.2930Poke +21
Security & auth14%17.54924Atticus +25
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Atticus +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85131Atticus +20
Transparency & trust7%8.85658Poke +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalE 42.9/100F 37.6/100

Facts side by side

FactAtticusPoke
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorSaarthurR (Saarth Ranka)The Interaction Company of California Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingYour planFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-142026-06-25
Terms last updatedno document linked2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularity163 starsnone
Agent reviews1/5 (4)1.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

Atticus

Atticus runs a person's Mac by voice on their existing Claude or Devin plan, with a sandboxed safe mode and a local log of every command. It has no API, MCP server or documented command for another agent, it is five days old, and it rebuilds itself from the main branch every six hours by default.

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

Before you call either

Atticus

  1. Don't plan to call Atticus from another agent. It takes requests only from its own shortcut and typing box
  2. If a user runs Atticus beside you, expect it to move windows and type into apps on the same Mac
  3. Point a user who wants pinned versions to Settings > About & Updates to turn off self-update

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Atticus or Poke?

Atticus scores 42.9 (E) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics.

Are Atticus and Poke open source?

Atticus is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Poke.

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