{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "bigarrow", "name": "Big Arrow", "vendor": "Franz Enzenhofer", "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen", "kind": "sdk", "category": "human-in-the-loop", "summary": "bigarrow is an open-source macOS command-line tool, with a skill for Claude Code and Codex, that lets an agent draw a click-through arrow and a sign over any window to show a person where to click, type or decide.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigarrow.json", "repo": "https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account, key or network access. Drawing needs no macOS permission. Pointing at a UI element by label (`--element`, `elements`, `--until-click`, `--app App:title`) needs Accessibility, and `--window App:title` needs Screen Recording, both granted to the app that runs the shell (Terminal, Ghostty, VS Code), never to bigarrow itself.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under MIT with nothing to buy. Installed from the author's Homebrew tap, which builds from source, or as an ad hoc signed universal binary from GitHub Releases.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the source, the README or the skill (checked 2026-10-15). The tool has no paid tier and makes no network calls.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 747, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-15" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen#readme", "capabilities": [ "hitl.handoff", "hitl.ask" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "mit", "macos", "swift", "cli", "agent-skill", "json-output", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 151, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 60, "reliability": 75, "schema": 78, "security": 67, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-15" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "An agent can show a person which control to click, with a labelled arrow that needs no permission to draw, never takes focus and always removes itself. The tool is a week old at version 0.4.6, runs only on macOS, reports no answer beyond how an arrow ended, and has no security policy.", "bestFor": "An agent on a person's Mac that reaches a step only the person may do, such as a permission prompt, 2FA code or payment, and needs to show where.", "strengths": [ "Drawing needs no macOS permission, and the overlay never takes keyboard focus, which integration tests on the real window server check", "Every arrow ends on a time limit, when its agent process exits, on `stop`, or on a click, so none outlives the session by default", "Exit codes 0, 2, 3 and 4 and `--json` on every command, and a target-not-found error lists what exists", "No network code, telemetry or account. The only dependency is Apple's swift-argument-parser", "105 test functions, and the last 25 CI runs on main passed as of 15 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "First commit 8 October 2026 and version 0.4.6, with flags removed or renamed between minor versions", "macOS 14 or later only. Windows and Linux exist only as third-party ports", "It shows where to act but does not collect an answer. The agent learns only how the arrow ended", "No SECURITY.md or disclosure route, and the release binary is signed ad hoc, not notarised", "Two outside issues opened on 12 and 13 October 2026 had no maintainer reply by 15 October" ], "agentNotes": [ "Open the exact System Settings pane or URL first, then point at the one control left for the person", "Write the sign as a full sentence that names the action and, for approvals or payments, what the click does", "Pass `--app` or `--window` for any target inside an app, so it is raised and the arrow hides while covered", "On exit 4, run `bigarrow doctor` and ask the person to grant Accessibility to the app running your shell, not to bigarrow", "Call `bigarrow stop` once the step is done, and add `bigarrow stop --hook` as a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 77, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 60, "reliability": 75, "schema": 78, "security": 67, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 53 }, "connect": { "install": "brew install franzenzenhofer/tap/bigarrow \u0026\u0026 bigarrow install-skill", "headless": { "check": "bigarrow doctor --json", "point": "bigarrow point --element \"Allow\" --app \"System Settings\" --text \"Franz, click Allow\" --json", "start": "bigarrow start --window \"Safari:Inbox\" --text \"This window\"", "stop": "bigarrow stop" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hitl.handoff", "tool": "https://letme.dev/bigarrow" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Franz Enzenhofer (individual, Vienna)", "domain": "", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-15", "notes": [ "The project has no website. The licence reads Copyright (c) 2026 Franz Enzenhofer. His GitHub account (created 2010) gives Vienna and links fullstackoptimization.com, and commits come from addresses at that domain.", "15 of 161 commits are by Arthur Ficial, with an address at the same domain, the account behind the merged README and guide pull requests.", "No terms, privacy policy, SECURITY.md or security.txt. The README says the tool has no account and no telemetry.", "The software runs on the owner's Mac, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow.json" }, "answer": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "gotohuman", "name": "gotoHuman", "vendor": "gotoHuman", "vendorUrl": "https://www.gotohuman.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "human-in-the-loop", "summary": "Hosted review inbox for AI agents.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json", "repo": "https://github.com/gotohuman/gotohuman-mcp-server", "license": "MIT (SDKs and MCP server)", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.gotohuman.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "gotohuman" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "gotohuman" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@gotohuman/mcp-server" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "API key in an `x-api-key` header. The SDKs and the MCP server read `GOTOHUMAN_API_KEY`, plus an optional `GOTOHUMAN_AGENT_ID` that ties requests to an agent set up in the dashboard. Reviewers sign in to the web inbox, and Slack notifications can carry a short-lived public link instead.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free $0 a month for 1 user and up to 300 reviews a month, with the web inbox, email and Slack and a 7-day history. Team $99 a month with 6 users ($15 per extra user), review routing, the Reviews API and a 60-day history. Growth $350 a month with 20 users ($17 per extra user), several teams and a 90-day history. Business $950 a month with 50 users, 5 workspaces, audit logs and custom retention. The paid plans don't state a review cap, and there's no yearly price on the page (https://www.gotohuman.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$99 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 3, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.gotohuman.com", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.gotohuman.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "hitl.approve", "hitl.ask", "hitl.channels", "hitl.audit" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "webhooks", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 43.6, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 965, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 20, "schema": 49, "security": 44, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Built for agent review, with TypeScript and Python SDKs, a 3-tool MCP server, an n8n node and a Make app. No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses.", "bestFor": "A team that wants a ready reviewer inbox where people edit AI output before it ships, without building a UI.", "strengths": [ "Built for agent review, with TypeScript and Python SDKs, a 3-tool MCP server, an n8n node and a Make app", "Reviewers can edit the output before approving, and the webhook returns the edited data", "Web inbox, email and Slack on every plan, including the $0 one", "Webhooks retry up to 7 times over about 9 hours and carry an `Idempotency-Key` header", "Terms rule out training on customer data, and processing is mainly in the EU" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses", "No review expiry or timeout that we could find in the docs", "Review routing and the Reviews API start at $99 a month, audit logs at $950", "The API reference and the SDK guide disagree on field names and on whether `agentId` is required", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or own SOC 2 report" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call `get-form-schema` before `request-human-review-with-form`, since the field data must match the review type", "Send `agentId` on every API request, because the API reference marks it required even though the JS SDK doesn't", "Pass a `webhookUrl` per request when the review type has no default, or the answer has nowhere to go", "Deduplicate webhook calls on the `Idempotency-Key` header, since delivery is at least once", "Set your own deadline on the agent side and treat silence as a rejection" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 43.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 64, "payments": 30, "reliability": 20, "schema": 49, "security": 44, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 49 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://api.gotohuman.com/requestReview -H \"x-api-key: $GOTOHUMAN_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"formId\":\"YOUR_REVIEW_TEMPLATE_ID\",\"fields\":{\"draft\":\"Refund order 1042 in full?\"},\"meta\":{\"threadId\":\"t-1\"}}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "gotoHuman": { "args": [ "-y", "@gotohuman/mcp-server" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "GOTOHUMAN_API_KEY": "${GOTOHUMAN_API_KEY}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hitl.approve", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gotohuman" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "6 users included" }, { "item": "Team extra user", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 15 }, { "item": "Growth plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 350, "note": "20 users included" }, { "item": "Growth extra user", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 17 }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 950, "note": "50 users, 5 workspaces, audit logs" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "gotoHuman UG (haftungsbeschränkt)", "domain": "gotohuman.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://docs.gotohuman.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.gotohuman.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The terms (last updated 2026-02-13) name gotoHuman UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Lydia-Rabinowitsch-Str. 14, 10557 Berlin, Germany, under German law with Berlin as venue.", "https://www.gotohuman.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 2026-10-01.", "No status page or product changelog found. The n8n node publishes release notes on GitHub.", "We didn't check RDAP, so the domain age is blank." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.json", "live": { "slug": "gotohuman", "probe": { "target": "https://api.gotohuman.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:55.209177507Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 61, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 66, "p95ms24h": 146, "samples24h": 254, "samples30d": 3595, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 109 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 123, "ok": 123 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@gotohuman/mcp-server", "version": "0.2.2", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:55:54.806728077Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "gotohuman", "version": "0.3.6", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:55:53.836545876Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "gotohuman", "version": "0.2.4", "released": "2026-06-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:55:54.617285142Z" } ], "githubStars": 52, "npmWeekly": 27, "pypiWeekly": 10, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://gotohuman.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:14.529184987Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.gotohuman.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:14:11.444197603Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "gotohuman.com", "registered": "2024-03-28", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/gotohuman.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:18:35.361304872Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.gotohuman.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:13:10.753678304Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:15:11.660216424Z", "fingerprint": "f957b2e868d4" }, { "url": "https://www.gotohuman.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:13:12.793207937Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e30807da51a1" }, { "url": "https://docs.gotohuman.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T20:58:38.029463131Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-14T20:40:03.051363885Z", "fingerprint": "7bfea454da8f" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:55.209177507Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Franz Enzenhofer", "b": "gotoHuman", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.gotohuman.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "MIT (SDKs and MCP server)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-12", "b": "2026-09-24", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "747 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or gotoHuman?" }, { "answer": "No hosted endpoint is listed for Big Arrow. gotoHuman has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gotohuman.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Big Arrow and gotoHuman without installing anything?" }, { "answer": "Big Arrow is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for gotoHuman.", "question": "Are Big Arrow and gotoHuman open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 20", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 49", "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 62", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 44", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 64", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 52" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "An agent on a person's Mac that reaches a step only the person may do, such as a permission prompt, 2FA code or payment, and needs to show where.", "slug": "bigarrow", "watchFor": "First commit 8 October 2026 and version 0.4.6, with flags removed or renamed between minor versions" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "A team that wants a ready reviewer inbox where people edit AI output before it ships, without building a UI.", "slug": "gotohuman", "watchFor": "No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses" } ], "job": { "capability": "hitl.ask", "name": "Hitl ask" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-hatchet.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Hatchet", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-hatchet" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-inngest.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Inngest", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-inngest" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-orkes-conductor.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-orkes-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-permit-mcp-gateway.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Permit MCP Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-permit-mcp-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-pushary.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Pushary", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-pushary" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-restate.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-temporal.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-trigger-dev.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Trigger.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-trigger-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs withHuman", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-hatchet.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Hatchet", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-hatchet" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-inngest.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Inngest", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-inngest" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-pushary.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Pushary", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-pushary" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-restate.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-temporal.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-trigger-dev.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Trigger.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-trigger-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-orkes-conductor.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-orkes-conductor" } ], "scores": [ { "bigarrow": 75, "by": 55, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 20, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bigarrow": 78, "by": 29, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 49, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "bigarrow": 77, "by": 15, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 62, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "bigarrow": 67, "by": 23, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 44, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "bigarrow": 60, "by": 30, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bigarrow": 70, "by": 6, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 64, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "bigarrow": 59, "by": 7, "edge": "bigarrow", "gotohuman": 52, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do hitl ask.", "verdicts": { "bigarrow": "An agent can show a person which control to click, with a labelled arrow that needs no permission to draw, never takes focus and always removes itself. The tool is a week old at version 0.4.6, runs only on macOS, reports no answer beyond how an arrow ended, and has no security policy.", "gotohuman": "Built for agent review, with TypeScript and Python SDKs, a 3-tool MCP server, an n8n node and a Make app. No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman.min.md" }, "markdown": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do hitl ask.\n\n- Big Arrow: grade BB, 70.7/100, rank #151 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigarrow.json\n- gotoHuman: grade E, 43.6/100, rank #965 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json\n- Best human approval and handoff for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/human-in-the-loop/index.md\n- All 53 human approval comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/human-in-the-loop/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Big Arrow (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent on a person's Mac that reaches a step only the person may do, such as a permission prompt, 2FA code or payment, and needs to show where.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 20\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 49\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 62\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 64\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: First commit 8 October 2026 and version 0.4.6, with flags removed or renamed between minor versions\n\n### gotoHuman (E)\n\nGood for: A team that wants a ready reviewer inbox where people edit AI output before it ships, without building a UI.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Big Arrow | gotoHuman | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 20 | Big Arrow +55 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 49 | Big Arrow +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 62 | Big Arrow +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 44 | Big Arrow +23 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Big Arrow +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 64 | Big Arrow +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 52 | Big Arrow +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.7 · BB** | **43.6 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Big Arrow | gotoHuman |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Franz Enzenhofer | gotoHuman |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.gotohuman.com` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | None | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT (SDKs and MCP server) |\n| Tools exposed | none | 3 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\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 | 747 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Big Arrow.** An agent can show a person which control to click, with a labelled arrow that needs no permission to draw, never takes focus and always removes itself. The tool is a week old at version 0.4.6, runs only on macOS, reports no answer beyond how an arrow ended, and has no security policy.\n\n**gotoHuman.** Built for agent review, with TypeScript and Python SDKs, a 3-tool MCP server, an n8n node and a Make app. No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Big Arrow\n\n1. Open the exact System Settings pane or URL first, then point at the one control left for the person\n2. Write the sign as a full sentence that names the action and, for approvals or payments, what the click does\n3. Pass `--app` or `--window` for any target inside an app, so it is raised and the arrow hides while covered\n4. On exit 4, run `bigarrow doctor` and ask the person to grant Accessibility to the app running your shell, not to bigarrow\n5. Call `bigarrow stop` once the step is done, and add `bigarrow stop --hook` as a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook\n\n### gotoHuman\n\n1. Call `get-form-schema` before `request-human-review-with-form`, since the field data must match the review type\n2. Send `agentId` on every API request, because the API reference marks it required even though the JS SDK doesn't\n3. Pass a `webhookUrl` per request when the review type has no default, or the answer has nowhere to go\n4. Deduplicate webhook calls on the `Idempotency-Key` header, since delivery is at least once\n5. Set your own deadline on the agent side and treat silence as a rejection\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or gotoHuman?\n\nBig Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Can an agent call Big Arrow and gotoHuman without installing anything?\n\nNo hosted endpoint is listed for Big Arrow. gotoHuman has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gotohuman.com.\n\n### Are Big Arrow and gotoHuman open source?\n\nBig Arrow is open source (MIT). 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