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An administrator registers OAuth services in Settings, creates an OAuth client (regular web or single-page application) under Manage \u003e OAuth client, and enters the client ID, secret and URLs in the MCP client by hand, adding the client's redirect URL afterwards. Users sign in through the Control Room's OIDC or SAML identity provider, and RBAC decides which automations they can discover and run.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Community Edition is free with no credit card required, for students, developers and small businesses under the stated limits. Paid Automation 360 Cloud plans have no published prices on automationanywhere.com, and the A+ Tokens and Accelerators terms refer to order forms. Whether Community Edition includes Control Room API or MCP inbound access was not stated (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Control Room API pages, the MCP inbound pages or the product-specific terms (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.automationanywhere.com/r/control-room-apis", "llmsTxt": "https://www.automationanywhere.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "desktop.rpa", "desktop.orchestration", "desktop.control" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "oauth", "enterprise", "mcp", "closed-source", "audit-log", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 815, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 66, "payments": 15, "reliability": 35, "schema": 55, "security": 64, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe.", "bestFor": "A company already running Automation 360 bots that wants an assistant such as Copilot or Claude to find and start them.", "strengths": [ "MCP inbound at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp with DiscoverAutomation, RunAutomation, GetAutomationResult and custom inbound tools with typed input and output variables", "Each run started through MCP is logged as device acquired, bot sent, deployed and finished in the Control Room audit log", "Written API deprecation policy, with at least two years of support and at least a year's notice before end of life", "Filtering, sorting and pagination documented for list endpoints, with Swagger on every Control Room at /swagger/", "Community Edition is free with no credit card required" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the public Control Room API pages", "The published response code table lists only generic HTTP statuses, with no error bodies", "DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine, supported in the US and Europe only", "Cloud prices are not published and no SLA was found in the product-specific terms", "MCP OAuth requires manual client setup in the Control Room and supports only the Manual OAuth type in the client" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call DiscoverAutomation with a specific query such as `Discover automations to create invoice in SAP`. It returns at most nine matches", "Keep the job ID from RunAutomation and poll GetAutomationResult until the status leaves Running/InProgress", "Send either `X-Authorization` with a token from the Authentication API or `Authorization: Bearer` from OAuth, never both in one request", "Match the case of every JSON parameter name. The Control Room API treats names as case-sensitive", "Use the v4 WLM endpoints. 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Incident entries were readable but their dates were not in the page we received.", "RDAP for automationanywhere.com gives a registration date of 2006-02-15." ], "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.json", "live": { "slug": "automation-anywhere", "probe": { "target": "https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:42.22842587Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "DNS lookup failed", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 17, "samples30d": 17, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 17, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-14T08:07:20.705930222Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "DNS lookup failed" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.automationanywhere.digital", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T08:52:44.216279023Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-14T09:41:42.22842587Z" } }, "answer": "Robocorp scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "robocorp", "name": "Robocorp", "vendor": "Sema4.ai", "vendorUrl": "https://sema4.ai", "kind": "sdk", "category": "desktop-automation", "summary": "Robocorp's open-source automation stack for Python, now run by Sema4.ai, with libraries for Windows desktop, cross-platform desktop, browser and document automation. Tasks run locally through `rcc` or Python, with Control Room as the hosted orchestrator.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/robocorp.json", "repo": "https://github.com/robocorp/rpaframework", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "rpaframework" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "robocorp" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "robocorp-windows" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account or key for the libraries, which run on the owner's machine. Control Room services (work items, vault, storage) need a Control Room workspace and its credentials. Locally, the vault reads secrets from a file named in `RC_VAULT_SECRETS_FILE`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "The libraries and rcc are free under Apache-2.0. Control Room plans and prices are published on sema4.ai, which answered our reader with a bot check, so they were not read (checked 2026-10-14).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the robocorp or rpaframework source or READMEs. Sema4.ai's pages were not readable (checked 2026-10-14).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1575, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 61263, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "docsUrl": "https://rpaframework.org/", "capabilities": [ "desktop.rpa", "desktop.control", "desktop.orchestration", "desktop.scripting", "browser.control" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "python", "free", "rpa", "windows", "cli", "agent-skill" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 65.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 337, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1076, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 60, "reliability": 87, "schema": 65, "security": 44, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Apache-2.0 libraries with passing CI, releases in the last month and an agent skill in the repository make it practical for agent-written desktop automation. robocorp.com now redirects to Sema4.ai, whose docs, pricing, terms and rcc downloads sit behind a bot check, and recent library issues mostly go unanswered.", "bestFor": "Python RPA on Windows desktops, browsers and documents, written or run by a coding agent.", "strengths": [ "Apache-2.0 packages on PyPI, rpaframework 33.0.2 (4 October 2026) and robocorp 3.1.4 (28 September 2026)", "RPA.Windows and robocorp.windows drive Windows controls by locator, and RPA.Desktop is a cross-platform library for keyboard, mouse and screen", "rpaframework's main and Windows CI workflows passed on master on 4 October 2026", "The robocorp repository ships an agent skill and a Claude Code plugin for building and running task packages, added 1 October 2026", "robocorp.log hides values with sensitive names and values passed to `hide_from_output`" ], "weaknesses": [ "robocorp.com redirects to sema4.ai, which answered our reader with a bot check, so the docs, Control Room pricing and terms were not read", "The repository's own agent skill says the rcc release page blocks automated requests and asks the user to fetch the download link", "Of the 15 newest open rpaframework issues and pull requests, 8 had no reply, including Windows automation issues open since 2024", "No SECURITY.md in either repository and no published advisories", "rpaframework.org has no llms.txt and loads Google Analytics on its documentation pages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Install libraries with `pip install robocorp` and add `rpaframework` or `robocorp-windows` separately. robocorp-windows is not in the meta-package", "Use RPA.Windows or robocorp.windows on Windows only. On macOS or Linux use RPA.Desktop, which works by keyboard, mouse and image matching", "Ask the user for the rcc download link for their platform, because the release notes page blocks automated requests", "Run a task package with `rcc task run --robot robot.yaml --task \"TASK NAME\"` and read the final status as well as the log output", "Keep secrets in robocorp.vault or environment variables and register sensitive names with robocorp.log so they are hidden from logs" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 65.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 81, "payments": 60, "reliability": 87, "schema": 65, "security": 44, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 73 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install robocorp rpaframework", "claudeCode": "claude plugin marketplace add robocorp/robocorp\nclaude plugin install robocorp-automation@robocorp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/desktop.rpa", "tool": "https://letme.dev/robocorp" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sema4.ai (full legal name not confirmed)", "domain": "robocorp.com", "domainRegistered": "2005-05-31", "domainNote": "robocorp.com redirects to sema4.ai. RDAP gives robocorp.com a registration date of 2005-05-31. robocorp.com/.well-known/security.txt redirects to sema4.ai, whose robots.txt disallows /.well-known/, so it was not fetched.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://rpaframework.org/releasenotes.html", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "sema4.ai answered every page request with a bot check except robots.txt, so its terms and privacy policy were not read and `terms` and `privacy` are left out.", "The libraries are Apache-2.0 and run on the owner's machine. PyPI metadata names Sema4.ai as author of the robocorp packages.", "The changelog link is RPA Framework's release notes. Each robocorp package keeps its own docs/CHANGELOG.md." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "SDK + MCP", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Automation Anywhere", "b": "Sema4.ai", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms", "b": "Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "3", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2018-11-05", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-04-01", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1.6k stars, 61k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Robocorp scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Automation Anywhere or Robocorp?" }, { "answer": "Automation Anywhere has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Robocorp.", "question": "Can an agent call Automation Anywhere and Robocorp without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Automation Anywhere. Robocorp is open source (Apache-2.0).", "question": "Are Automation Anywhere and Robocorp open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 44", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 65" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "A company already running Automation 360 bots that wants an assistant such as Copilot or Claude to find and start them.", "slug": "automation-anywhere", "watchFor": "No API rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the public Control Room API pages" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 87 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 55", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 66" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Python RPA on Windows desktops, browsers and documents, written or run by a coding agent.", "slug": "robocorp", "watchFor": "robocorp.com redirects to sema4.ai, which answered our reader with a bot check, so the docs, Control Room pricing and terms were not read" } ], "job": { "capability": "desktop.rpa", "name": "Robotic process automation" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-automation-anywhere.json", "title": "AutoHotkey vs Automation Anywhere", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-automation-anywhere" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-robocorp.json", "title": "AutoHotkey vs Robocorp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autohotkey-vs-robocorp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere.json", "title": "AutoIt vs Automation Anywhere", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-automation-anywhere" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-robocorp.json", "title": "AutoIt vs Robocorp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/autoit-vs-robocorp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework.json", "title": "Automation Anywhere vs Robot Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robot-framework" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-uipath.json", "title": "Automation Anywhere vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-uipath" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robocorp-vs-robot-framework.json", "title": "Robocorp vs Robot Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robocorp-vs-robot-framework" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robocorp-vs-uipath.json", "title": "Robocorp vs UiPath", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/robocorp-vs-uipath" } ], "scores": [ { "automation-anywhere": 35, "by": 52, "edge": "robocorp", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "robocorp": 87, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "automation-anywhere": 55, "by": 10, "edge": "robocorp", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "robocorp": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "automation-anywhere": 60, "by": 1, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "robocorp": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "automation-anywhere": 64, "by": 20, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "robocorp": 44, "weight": 14 }, { "automation-anywhere": 15, "by": 45, "edge": "robocorp", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "robocorp": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "automation-anywhere": 66, "by": 15, "edge": "robocorp", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "robocorp": 81, "weight": 7 }, { "automation-anywhere": 73, "by": 8, "edge": "automation-anywhere", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "robocorp": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Robocorp scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do robotic process automation.", "verdicts": { "automation-anywhere": "The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe.", "robocorp": "Apache-2.0 libraries with passing CI, releases in the last month and an agent skill in the repository make it practical for agent-written desktop automation. robocorp.com now redirects to Sema4.ai, whose docs, pricing, terms and rcc downloads sit behind a bot check, and recent library issues mostly go unanswered." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp.min.md" }, "markdown": "Robocorp scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do robotic process automation.\n\n- Automation Anywhere: grade D, 50.9/100, rank #815 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/automation-anywhere.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/automation-anywhere.json\n- Robocorp: grade B, 65.5/100, rank #337 of 1076. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/robocorp.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/robocorp.json\n- Best desktop and mobile app automation for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/desktop-automation/index.md\n- All 15 desktop comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/desktop-automation/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Automation Anywhere (D)\n\nGood for: A company already running Automation 360 bots that wants an assistant such as Copilot or Claude to find and start them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 44\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 65\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No API rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the public Control Room API pages\n\n### Robocorp (B)\n\nGood for: Python RPA on Windows desktops, browsers and documents, written or run by a coding agent.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 87 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 55\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 15\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 81 against 66\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: robocorp.com redirects to sema4.ai, which answered our reader with a bot check, so the docs, Control Room pricing and terms were not read\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Automation Anywhere | Robocorp | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 87 | Robocorp +52 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 65 | Robocorp +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 59 | Automation Anywhere +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 44 | Automation Anywhere +20 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 15 | 60 | Robocorp +45 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 81 | Robocorp +15 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 65 | Automation Anywhere +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.9 · D** | **65.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Automation Anywhere | Robocorp |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |\n| Vendor | Automation Anywhere | Sema4.ai |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Automation Anywhere's customer agreement and product-specific terms | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 3 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-04 |\n| Terms last updated | 2018-11-05 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-04-01 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | none | 1.6k stars, 61k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Automation Anywhere.** The Control Room's /mcp endpoint gives an MCP client three standard tools to discover, run and read automations under RBAC, with each run in the audit log. No API rate limits, error catalogue, SLA or prices were found in public pages, and DiscoverAutomation and RunAutomation need an Enterprise licence with the Process Reasoning Engine in the US or Europe.\n\n**Robocorp.** Apache-2.0 libraries with passing CI, releases in the last month and an agent skill in the repository make it practical for agent-written desktop automation. robocorp.com now redirects to Sema4.ai, whose docs, pricing, terms and rcc downloads sit behind a bot check, and recent library issues mostly go unanswered.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Automation Anywhere\n\n1. Call DiscoverAutomation with a specific query such as `Discover automations to create invoice in SAP`. It returns at most nine matches\n2. Keep the job ID from RunAutomation and poll GetAutomationResult until the status leaves Running/InProgress\n3. Send either `X-Authorization` with a token from the Authentication API or `Authorization: Bearer` from OAuth, never both in one request\n4. Match the case of every JSON parameter name. The Control Room API treats names as case-sensitive\n5. Use the v4 WLM endpoints. Eight v3 WLM endpoints were deprecated in v.43 and end with v.46\n\n### Robocorp\n\n1. Install libraries with `pip install robocorp` and add `rpaframework` or `robocorp-windows` separately. robocorp-windows is not in the meta-package\n2. Use RPA.Windows or robocorp.windows on Windows only. On macOS or Linux use RPA.Desktop, which works by keyboard, mouse and image matching\n3. Ask the user for the rcc download link for their platform, because the release notes page blocks automated requests\n4. Run a task package with `rcc task run --robot robot.yaml --task \"TASK NAME\"` and read the final status as well as the log output\n5. Keep secrets in robocorp.vault or environment variables and register sensitive names with robocorp.log so they are hidden from logs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Automation Anywhere or Robocorp?\n\nRobocorp scores 65.5 (B) on agent readiness against Automation Anywhere's 50.9 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Automation Anywhere leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Can an agent call Automation Anywhere and Robocorp without installing anything?\n\nAutomation Anywhere has a hosted endpoint at https://\u003ccontrol-room\u003e/mcp. No hosted endpoint is listed for Robocorp.\n\n### Are Automation Anywhere and Robocorp open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Automation Anywhere. Robocorp is open source (Apache-2.0).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/automation-anywhere-vs-robocorp.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"automation-anywhere\", \"b\": \"robocorp\"}`. 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