{ "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 Inngest's 66 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inngest leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "inngest", "name": "Inngest", "vendor": "Inngest", "vendorUrl": "https://www.inngest.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "human-in-the-loop", "summary": "Durable execution platform for TypeScript, Python and Go, with event-driven workflows and support for human approval.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inngest.json", "repo": "https://github.com/inngest/inngest", "license": "SSPL with delayed Apache-2.0 (server), Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://inn.gs/e/", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "inngest" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "inngest" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Events go to `https://inn.gs/e/\u003cevent key\u003e`, so the event key sits in the URL path. Your app's serve endpoint checks requests with a signing key. The REST API and the Cloud MCP at `api.inngest.com/mcp` take an API key (`sk-inn-api-...`) as a Bearer token, and the Cloud MCP won't accept signing keys.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free $0 with 50,000 executions a month, 5 concurrent steps, 5 seats and 24-hour trace history, no card. Pro from $99 a month with 1 million executions, 100 concurrent steps, 15 seats and 7-day traces, then $50 per extra million. Business from $499 a month with 10 million executions, 500 concurrent steps, 30 seats and 14-day traces. Enterprise is priced on request. One execution is one run plus one per step, so a run with 5 steps costs 6, and Free pauses execution at the quota instead of billing overage (https://www.inngest.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.inngest.com/docs/ai-patterns/human-in-the-loop", "llmsTxt": "https://www.inngest.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api-docs.inngest.com/api-specs/v2.json", "capabilities": [ "hitl.approve", "hitl.ask", "agent.durable", "automation.workflows", "automation.code" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "source-available", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "llms-txt", "typescript", "python", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 323, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1094, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 89, "security": 60, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Waits are durable and cost nothing while suspended, with runs up to 30 days on Free and 366 on Business. No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code.", "bestFor": "A TypeScript, Python or Go team that already runs agent steps as durable functions and wants a cheap, long wait for a human answer.", "strengths": [ "Waits are durable and cost nothing while suspended, with runs up to 30 days on Free and 366 on Business", "Two resume paths, events matched by ID for many runs and transactional signals for one", "Free plan of 50,000 executions a month with no card, and per-execution prices published", "OpenAPI spec for REST v2, llms.txt and a dated changelog", "SOC 2 Type II, a paid bounty and Apache-2.0 SDKs in TypeScript, Python and Go" ], "weaknesses": [ "No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code", "An answer sent before `waitForEvent` starts listening isn't matched", "16 incidents on the status page between 7 July and 26 September, with function execution at 99.14 per cent", "Audit trails, RBAC and SAML only on Enterprise, and traces kept 24 hours on Free", "Server under the SSPL, which isn't an OSI licence" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use `step.waitForSignal()` when one run waits for one answer, and `waitForEvent` only when one answer resumes many runs", "Register the wait before you send the approval request, or check the external state first, since early events are missed", "Use a unique approval ID per tool call and `match` on it, so parallel approvals resolve independently", "Treat `null` or `undefined` as a timeout and decide on purpose whether that rejects, approves or escalates", "Set an event `id` when sending the answer, so a retried send is dropped within 24 hours" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 88, "payments": 40, "reliability": 57, "schema": 89, "security": 60, "transparency": 52 }, "provenanceScore": 52 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install inngest", "http": "curl -X POST \"https://inn.gs/e/$INNGEST_EVENT_KEY\" \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"name\":\"agent/approval.response\",\"data\":{\"approvalId\":\"task-42-send_email\",\"approved\":true}}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http inngest-cloud https://api.inngest.com/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer $INNGEST_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hitl.approve", "tool": "https://letme.dev/inngest" }, "alsoIn": [ "workflow-automation" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "From $99, 1 million executions, 100 concurrent steps, 15 seats" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 499, "note": "From $499, 10 million executions, 500 concurrent steps, 30 seats" }, { "item": "Extra executions on Pro", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 0.05, "note": "$50 per million executions, tiered down to $0.015 per 1,000 at volume" }, { "item": "Extra seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 10 } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Inngest Inc", "domain": "inngest.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://www.inngest.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.inngest.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.inngest.com", "changelog": "https://www.inngest.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The event API is on inn.gs, a separate domain. The REST API and Cloud MCP are on api.inngest.com.", "The terms give Inngest Inc at 821 Howard St, San Francisco, and the privacy policy (updated 2026-04-03) an address at 600 California St, San Francisco.", "https://www.inngest.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 2026-10-01. The security page names security@inngest.com and a bounty, and the trust centre is at trust.inngest.com.", "The usage-limits page now uses the same plan names as the pricing page (Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise)." ], "score": 52 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.json", "live": { "slug": "inngest", "probe": { "target": "https://inn.gs/e/", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-15T11:29:57.108360485Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 305, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 297, "p95ms24h": 356, "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 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.inngest.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-15T11:32:07.915624846Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "inngest/inngest", "version": "v1.46.0", "released": "2026-10-06", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:58:49.635656791Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "inngest", "version": "4.24.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:58:49.165643224Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "inngest", "version": "0.5.19", "released": "2026-06-23", "seenAt": "2026-10-14T23:58:49.434039955Z" } ], "githubStars": 5942, "npmWeekly": 2481348, "pypiWeekly": 300154, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://inngest.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T15:46:24.079429668Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://www.inngest.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T14:14:19.921787194Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "inngest.com", "registered": "2020-10-12", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/inngest.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:16:38.592465969Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.inngest.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:13:51.721614585Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:12:24.277349185Z", "fingerprint": "2b2dab665539" }, { "url": "https://www.inngest.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:13:53.974394357Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:12:26.897851729Z", "fingerprint": "8d7a809a2dbf" }, { "url": "https://www.inngest.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:13:55.776980996Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:15:31.976624386Z", "fingerprint": "7829ff6a3bda" }, { "url": "https://www.inngest.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-14T21:13:57.965071605Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:15:33.852301357Z", "fingerprint": "4d02011a1702" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T11:32:07.915624846Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "SDK + MCP", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Franz Enzenhofer", "b": "Inngest", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://inn.gs/e/", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "SSPL with delayed Apache-2.0 (server), Apache-2.0 (SDKs)", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-12", "b": "2026-09-22", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "couldn't be read", "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": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "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": "2.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Inngest's 66 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inngest leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or Inngest?" }, { "answer": "Big Arrow is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Inngest.", "question": "Are Big Arrow and Inngest open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 75 against 57", "Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 60", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 59 against 52" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "No key needed to call it", "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": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 78", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 70" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install" ], "goodFor": "A TypeScript, Python or Go team that already runs agent steps as durable functions and wants a cheap, long wait for a human answer.", "slug": "inngest", "watchFor": "No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code" } ], "job": { "capability": "hitl.ask", "name": "Hitl ask" }, "others": [ { "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/hatchet-vs-inngest.json", "title": "Hatchet vs Inngest", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-inngest" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-orkes-conductor.json", "title": "Inngest vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-orkes-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-permit-mcp-gateway.json", "title": "Inngest vs Permit MCP Gateway", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-permit-mcp-gateway" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-pushary.json", "title": "Inngest vs Pushary", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-pushary" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-restate.json", "title": "Inngest vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-temporal.json", "title": "Inngest vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-trigger-dev.json", "title": "Inngest vs Trigger.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-trigger-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-withhuman.json", "title": "Inngest vs withHuman", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-withhuman" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman.json", "title": "Big Arrow vs gotoHuman", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman" }, { "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-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": 18, "edge": "bigarrow", "inngest": 57, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bigarrow": 78, "by": 11, "edge": "inngest", "inngest": 89, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "bigarrow": 77, "by": 1, "edge": "bigarrow", "inngest": 76, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "bigarrow": 67, "by": 7, "edge": "bigarrow", "inngest": 60, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "bigarrow": 60, "by": 20, "edge": "bigarrow", "inngest": 40, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bigarrow": 70, "by": 18, "edge": "inngest", "inngest": 88, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "bigarrow": 59, "by": 7, "edge": "bigarrow", "inngest": 52, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Inngest's 66 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inngest leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. 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.", "inngest": "Waits are durable and cost nothing while suspended, with runs up to 30 days on Free and 366 on Business. No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-inngest", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-inngest.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-inngest.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-inngest.min.md" }, "markdown": "Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Inngest's 66 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inngest leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. 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- Inngest: grade B, 66/100, rank #323 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inngest.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- Best workflow automation platforms with APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/workflow-automation/index.md\n- All 112 workflows comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/workflow-automation/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 57\n- Security \u0026 auth, 67 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\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- 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### Inngest (B)\n\nGood for: A TypeScript, Python or Go team that already runs agent steps as durable functions and wants a cheap, long wait for a human answer.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 78\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 88 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Big Arrow | Inngest | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 57 | Big Arrow +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 89 | Inngest +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 76 | Big Arrow +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 60 | Big Arrow +7 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | Big Arrow +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 88 | Inngest +18 |\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** | **66 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Big Arrow | Inngest |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | SDK + MCP | Platform |\n| Vendor | Franz Enzenhofer | Inngest |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://inn.gs/e/` |\n| Transports | | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | SSPL with delayed Apache-2.0 (server), Apache-2.0 (SDKs) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 747 stars | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (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**Inngest.** Waits are durable and cost nothing while suspended, with runs up to 30 days on Free and 366 on Business. No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email, so the human side is your code.\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### Inngest\n\n1. Use `step.waitForSignal()` when one run waits for one answer, and `waitForEvent` only when one answer resumes many runs\n2. Register the wait before you send the approval request, or check the external state first, since early events are missed\n3. Use a unique approval ID per tool call and `match` on it, so parallel approvals resolve independently\n4. Treat `null` or `undefined` as a timeout and decide on purpose whether that rejects, approves or escalates\n5. Set an event `id` when sending the answer, so a retried send is dropped within 24 hours\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or Inngest?\n\nBig Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Inngest's 66 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Inngest leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Are Big Arrow and Inngest open source?\n\nBig Arrow is open source (MIT). 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