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      "vendor": "Noats, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://beam.win",
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      "category": "desktop-automation",
      "summary": "Beam is a macOS app from Noats, Inc. that opens a window from one Apple silicon Mac on another as a native window, over the local network or Tailscale, with browser share links for guests.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam-win.json",
      "license": "Proprietary. The terms grant each plan a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Beam on every Mac the person uses, and forbid reverse engineering except where the law allows it. Open-source components are listed only on request by email (https://beam.win/terms/, checked 2026-10-20)",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No credential exists for an outside agent, since Beam has no API, MCP server or documented automation interface. People sign in to the app with email and password, Google, GitHub or X through Clerk on accounts.beam.win, and approve each new Mac from an approved Mac or an emailed link (https://beam.win/privacy/, https://beam.win/llms.txt, checked 2026-10-20).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free for any number of host Macs and for joining share links, with 20 minutes a day of using another Mac and no card. Unlimited use is $12 a month or $84 a year, with a 14-day trial that needs a card, or $199 once for Lifetime. Teams are $12 a seat a month or $84 a year, 20 per cent off from 10 seats (https://beam.win/pricing/, https://beam.win/llms.txt, checked 2026-10-20).",
      "priceSummary": "$12 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "Desktop app sold by plan through Stripe checkout. No x402, MPP or L402 on beam.win, its pricing page, terms or llms.txt (checked 2026-10-20).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-20"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://beam.win/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://beam.win/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "desktop.control"
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        "official",
        "local",
        "desktop",
        "macos",
        "freemium",
        "not-for-agents",
        "closed-source",
        "llms-txt",
        "no-status-page"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-14",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 17.8,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1141,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1184,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.5",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 35,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 25,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 50
        },
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          "tasks"
        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-20"
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        "verdict": "Beam brings single windows from another Mac, including a headless Mac mini, onto the Mac in front of a person, with window content sent directly between the Macs and a dated privacy policy that names every subprocessor. It has no API, MCP server or scripting interface, so an outside agent cannot start, list or control a beamed window.",
        "bestFor": "A person with two or more Apple silicon Macs who wants one app's window from another Mac, such as a headless Mac mini running builds or agents, as a native window on the Mac at the desk.",
        "strengths": [
          "Window content, input, clipboard and sound go directly between the two Macs, encrypted, and per Noats never through its servers",
          "Privacy policy dated 14 October 2026 names eight subprocessors, retention periods of 30 and 90 days and a self-service deletion route",
          "No analytics, crash reporting or telemetry in the app, per the privacy policy. The daily update check carries only the app's name and version",
          "Free tier hosts any number of Macs and gives 20 minutes a day of use with no card",
          "Hidden windows and password managers never appear in the picker on either Mac"
        ],
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          "No API, MCP server, URL scheme or scripting interface was found. The documented command line covers only a `doctor` diagnostic",
          "Needs Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later at both ends. Other devices get one view-only window through a share link",
          "No changelog, release notes, status page or security.txt. Version labels disagree (1.0.3 on the download link, 0.3.1 in a 20 October post)",
          "Older blog posts still describe a $49 one-off price, no account and one-hour guest links, which the current site and terms no longer match",
          "The terms name Noats, Inc. without stating where it is established, and set the governing law by that unstated place"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to drive Beam from an agent. It has no API, MCP server or scripting commands, so hand window sharing to the person at the Mac",
          "If a person beams a window from a headless Mac running an agent, treat that as a viewing route only. Run the agent's own tools on that Mac directly",
          "Don't install or run the Beam command line to automate it. The only documented command is a `doctor` that checks permissions and network",
          "Expect two Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later, Screen Recording and Accessibility permission on the sharing Mac, and a signed-in account"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.5",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 35,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 25,
          "schema": 10,
          "security": 0,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "provenanceScore": 47
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/desktop.control",
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      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Monthly",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 12,
          "note": "unlimited use on every Mac the person uses. First plan has a 14-day trial that needs a card"
        },
        {
          "item": "Yearly",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 7,
          "note": "billed $84 a year"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 12,
          "note": "or $84 a seat a year, every seat 20 per cent off from 10 people"
        },
        {
          "item": "Lifetime",
          "unit": "tx",
          "usd": 199,
          "note": "one payment, every future update, direct connections"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Noats, Inc.",
        "domain": "beam.win",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-09-02",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://beam.win/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://beam.win/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-20",
        "notes": [
          "The terms and privacy policy name Noats, Inc. as the maker, both last updated 14 October 2026. The terms say they are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction where Noats, Inc. is established, without naming it.",
          "RDAP for beam.win gives a registration date of 2026-09-02 through Cloudflare Registrar, registrant in California, US, other data redacted. The earliest blog post is dated one day earlier, 1 September 2026.",
          "beam.win/.well-known/security.txt and /changelog return 404. No status page was found.",
          "robots.txt on beam.win allows all paths except /api/ and /thanks. Neither was fetched. The download at updates.beam.win was not fetched.",
          "No GitHub repository or official MCP registry entry for Beam or Noats was found."
        ],
        "score": 47
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam-win.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "beam-win",
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://beam.win/pricing/",
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          {
            "url": "https://beam.win/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:42:12.531185417Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://beam.win/terms/",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-21T00:42:14.565165193Z",
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    "answer": "UiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against Beam (beam.win)'s 17.8 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam (beam.win) leads on payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "slug": "uipath",
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      "category": "desktop-automation",
      "summary": "UiPath is a robotic process automation platform whose hosted Orchestrator runs robots that operate desktop, web and Windows applications. Outside agents start and monitor jobs through the Orchestrator API or folder-scoped MCP servers in Automation Cloud.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/uipath.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/uipath.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement, the Community Agreement for the free plan",
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        "http"
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      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "uipath"
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      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 throughout. MCP servers take a bearer token on every request from four sources. The MCP OAuth flow (authorisation server discovery, Client ID Metadata Documents or dynamic client registration, tokens bound to one server by RFC 8707 resource indicators, gated by an AI Trust Layer policy that is off unless an administrator enables it). Personal access tokens with chosen Orchestrator scopes and a lifetime of up to one year. External applications using client credentials (the only unattended route) or user scopes with PKCE. Interactive login through `uipath auth`, with one-hour tokens. The caller needs `MCPServers.View` in the folder, and Coded and Command servers also need `Jobs.Create`. Access is the intersection of token scopes and folder roles.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The Community plan is free with no time limit, by direct sign-up, with one tenant, one Pro and one Plus user, one Unattended Robot and a monthly Credits pool. Basic starts at $25 a month with two robots and limited agent calls, hosted in Europe. Standard (60-day free trial) and Enterprise are priced by sales, and user and robot licences are sold across tiers without published prices. Whether a card is needed for Community was not stated (checked 2026-10-14).",
      "priceSummary": "$25 / mo",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
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        "endpoints": []
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.uipath.com/orchestrator/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/about-mcp-servers",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.uipath.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "desktop.rpa",
        "desktop.orchestration",
        "desktop.control"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "official",
        "oauth",
        "enterprise",
        "odata",
        "mcp",
        "python",
        "closed-source",
        "audit-log",
        "freemium",
        "llms-txt",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-12",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
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        "score": 68.2,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 249,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1184,
        "categoryRank": 2,
        "methodology": "0.5",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 82,
          "transparency": 76
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Orchestrator exposes published RPA workflows, agents and API workflows as MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, with MCP OAuth, scoped PATs and an OpenAPI 3.0 API. Prices above the $25 Basic plan need a sales conversation, and the status page logged several multi-hour incidents between 10 September and 13 October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that needs to drive Windows desktop or legacy applications through robots a company already runs, started as MCP tools or API jobs.",
        "strengths": [
          "Folder-scoped MCP servers turn chosen processes, agents and API workflows into tools at a URL of the form cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}",
          "MCP OAuth flow with Client ID Metadata Documents, dynamic registration and RFC 8707 resource binding, plus PATs scoped to OR.Jobs and OR.Execution",
          "Rate limits published per endpoint, with Retry-After and X-RateLimit-Remaining headers on 429 responses",
          "llms.txt index and a Markdown copy of every docs page by adding .md to the URL",
          "security.txt valid until 2028 pointing to a HackerOne programme, and SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001 claimed for Automation Cloud"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Standard and Enterprise prices are not published, and robot licences are sold through sales",
          "Status history shows robot job failures in Europe for over seven hours on 10 September 2026 and a certificate expiry hitting several services on 13 October 2026",
          "No idempotency key was found for StartJobs, and the MCP pages say nothing about readOnlyHint or destructiveHint",
          "The OpenAPI document is served per tenant behind the Orchestrator URL, not as a public file",
          "Tools backed by Integration Service activities time out with PATs or client credentials and need user-context sign-in"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` on every MCP request. The `mcp-session-id` header carries no authentication",
          "Give a PAT both `OR.Execution` (list tools) and `OR.Jobs` (run tools), or tool listing or calls fail",
          "Use client credentials from an external application for unattended runs. It is the only method that needs no person at sign-in",
          "Add a folder header such as `X-UIPATH-FolderKey` to Orchestrator API calls on folder resources",
          "Read job outputs with `GET /odata/Jobs({key})`. `GET /odata/Jobs` returns InputArguments and OutputArguments as null and is limited to 100 calls a minute per tenant"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.5,
        "history": [
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.5",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68.2
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 80,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 82,
          "transparency": 57
        },
        "provenanceScore": 94
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $UIPATH_PAT\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"initialize\",\"params\":{...},\"id\":1}'"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/desktop.rpa",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/uipath"
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      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Automation Cloud Basic",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 25,
          "note": "starting price, up to 5 Basic, 5 Plus and 1 Pro user, 2 robots, limited agent calls, hosted in Europe"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "UiPath Inc.",
        "domain": "uipath.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2011-10-26",
        "domainNote": "API and MCP endpoints answer on cloud.uipath.com. www.uipath.com/.well-known/security.txt names security@uipath.com and https://hackerone.com/uipath and expires on 2028-06-26.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/legal-terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.uipath.com/legal/trust-and-security/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.uipath.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.uipath.com/orchestrator/automation-cloud/latest/release-notes/october-2026",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "The legal terms page says paid products fall under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement signed with each customer, the Community plan under the Community Agreement (updated 27 July 2026) and trials and previews under the Master Evaluation Agreement (updated 12 June 2026). The MSSA itself is not public.",
          "The same page lists the privacy policy's last update as 30 November 2018. A Data Processing Agreement is published as a download, which we did not read.",
          "The legal entities named are UiPath SRL, Bucharest, and UiPath Inc., One Vanderbilt Ave., New York.",
          "status.uipath.com is an Atlassian Statuspage. Its robots.txt disallows /api/, so incident history was read from /history.rss.",
          "RDAP for uipath.com gives a registration date of 2011-10-26."
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        "a": "Platform",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
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      {
        "a": "Noats, Inc.",
        "b": "UiPath",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
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        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "None",
        "b": "OAuth",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Freemium",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary. The terms grant each plan a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Beam on every Mac the person uses, and forbid reverse engineering except where the law allows it. Open-source components are listed only on request by email (https://beam.win/terms/, checked 2026-10-20)",
        "b": "Proprietary service under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement, the Community Agreement for the free plan",
        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "no",
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The terms grant each plan a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use Beam on every Mac the person uses, and forbid reverse engineering except where the law allows it. Open-source components are listed only on request by email (https://beam.win/terms/, checked 2026-10-20) | Proprietary service under the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement, the Community Agreement for the free plan |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated |  | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models |  | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | couldn't be read |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Beam (beam.win).** Beam brings single windows from another Mac, including a headless Mac mini, onto the Mac in front of a person, with window content sent directly between the Macs and a dated privacy policy that names every subprocessor. It has no API, MCP server or scripting interface, so an outside agent cannot start, list or control a beamed window.\n\n**UiPath.** Orchestrator exposes published RPA workflows, agents and API workflows as MCP tools over Streamable HTTP, with MCP OAuth, scoped PATs and an OpenAPI 3.0 API. Prices above the $25 Basic plan need a sales conversation, and the status page logged several multi-hour incidents between 10 September and 13 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Beam (beam.win)\n\n1. Don't plan to drive Beam from an agent. It has no API, MCP server or scripting commands, so hand window sharing to the person at the Mac\n2. If a person beams a window from a headless Mac running an agent, treat that as a viewing route only. Run the agent's own tools on that Mac directly\n3. Don't install or run the Beam command line to automate it. The only documented command is a `doctor` that checks permissions and network\n4. Expect two Apple silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later, Screen Recording and Accessibility permission on the sharing Mac, and a signed-in account\n\n### UiPath\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` on every MCP request. The `mcp-session-id` header carries no authentication\n2. Give a PAT both `OR.Execution` (list tools) and `OR.Jobs` (run tools), or tool listing or calls fail\n3. Use client credentials from an external application for unattended runs. It is the only method that needs no person at sign-in\n4. Add a folder header such as `X-UIPATH-FolderKey` to Orchestrator API calls on folder resources\n5. Read job outputs with `GET /odata/Jobs({key})`. `GET /odata/Jobs` returns InputArguments and OutputArguments as null and is limited to 100 calls a minute per tenant\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Beam (beam.win) or UiPath?\n\nUiPath scores 68.2 (B) on agent readiness against Beam (beam.win)'s 17.8 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Beam (beam.win) leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Can an agent call Beam (beam.win) and UiPath without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Beam (beam.win). UiPath has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.uipath.com/{org}/{tenant}/agenthub_/mcp/{folderKey}/{slug}.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-win-vs-uipath.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-win-vs-uipath.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"beam-win\", \"b\": \"uipath\"}`. 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