Head to head · Hitl ask · October 2026 research run

Big Arrow vs Pushary

Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Pushary's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do hitl ask.

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Which one, for what

Big Arrow BB

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 75 against 20
  • Schema & documentation, 78 against 73
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 70 against 60

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

First commit 8 October 2026 and version 0.4.6, with flags removed or renamed between minor versions

Pushary D

Best for One developer running coding agents unattended who wants questions and approvals on a phone.

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBig ArrowPusharyEdge
Reliability16%207520Big Arrow +55
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27873Big Arrow +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.27776Big Arrow +1
Security & auth14%17.56764Big Arrow +3
Payments & pricing10%12.56010Big Arrow +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87060Big Arrow +10
Transparency & trust7%8.85963Pushary +4
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 70.7/100D 51.4/100

Facts side by side

FactBig ArrowPushary
KindSDK + MCPMCP server
VendorFranz EnzenhoferPushary
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceMITMIT (skill, hooks and adapters)
Tools exposednone6
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
MCP registrynot listedio.github.Pushary/pushary
Last release2026-10-122026-10-01
Terms last updatedno document linked2026-09-27
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-28
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity747 starsnone
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (2)

Verdicts

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.

Pushary

Six small tools with a detailed skill that says when to ask, when to notify and when to stay quiet. No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front.

Before you call either

Big Arrow

  1. Open the exact System Settings pane or URL first, then point at the one control left for the person
  2. Write the sign as a full sentence that names the action and, for approvals or payments, what the click does
  3. Pass --app or --window for any target inside an app, so it is raised and the arrow hides while covered
  4. On exit 4, run bigarrow doctor and ask the person to grant Accessibility to the app running your shell, not to bigarrow
  5. Call bigarrow stop once the step is done, and add bigarrow stop --hook as a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook

Pushary

  1. Read answered, status and handoffAction on every result, and never treat a timeout as approval
  2. Expect ask_user to return at once with answered: false when the user's mode is notify-only or terminal-only
  3. Poll wait_for_answer once (it waits at most 55 seconds), then follow the handoff instead of looping
  4. Cancel a live question with cancel_question before asking the same thing in chat
  5. Group open decisions into one select question, since each push interrupts the user

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or Pushary?

Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Pushary's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Can an agent call Big Arrow and Pushary without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Big Arrow. Pushary has a hosted endpoint at https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp.

Are Big Arrow and Pushary open source?

Big Arrow is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Pushary.

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