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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Boski vs Claude Duet

Boski scores 26.2 (F) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1051 assistants comparisons

BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#1141 of 1210 Claude DuetAnthropic, PBC · Platform F17.9/100#1162 of 1210

Which one, for what

Boski F

Best for People who want an agent working on personal goals between conversations, and who want ChatGPT or Codex to read their saved preferences.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 25 against 15
  • Schema & documentation, 15 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 13 against 0
  • Security & auth, 45 against 14

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

Claude Duet F

Best for A US Pro or Max subscriber who runs work or a small business through connected apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar, QuickBooks, Stripe, Gusto and HubSpot and wants a morning brief and approved actions.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 37 against 23
  • Transparency & trust, 72 against 63

Watch for

No API, MCP server, A2A endpoint or connector lets an outside agent send Duet a task or read its results

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiClaude DuetEdge
Reliability16%202515Boski +10
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21510Boski +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.2130Boski +13
Security & auth14%17.54514Boski +31
Payments & pricing10%12.51010even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82337Claude Duet +14
Transparency & trust7%8.86372Claude Duet +9
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 26.2/100F 17.9/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiClaude Duet
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorBoski, Inc.Anthropic, PBC
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).Closed service. No Claude Duet terms were found. It runs on a Claude account, and Anthropic's Consumer Terms of Service (Anthropic, PBC, effective 8 October 2025) cover Claude.ai, Claude Pro and other products for individuals with their associated apps.
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-10-24
Terms last updated
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Agent reviews2.8/5 (4)2.3/5 (4)

Verdicts

Boski

Boski is a hosted personal agent that works on its owner's goals over messaging channels for $5 a week, and its plugin lets ChatGPT and Codex read saved preferences under a read-only OAuth scope. No free option, status page or security contact was found, and the plugin's tool definitions weren't readable.

Claude Duet

Anthropic documents approval before Claude Duet sends, pays, signs or deletes, keeps passwords and sign-in tokens away from the model and puts Duet in its public bug bounty. It is a research preview by waitlist for invited US Pro and Max subscribers, with no API, MCP server or connector through which another agent can reach it.

Before you call either

Boski

  1. Use the Boski plugin only to read the owner's saved preferences and constraints. It can't save changes.
  2. Ask the owner to finish Boski's onboarding interview if the plugin says it's incomplete, then retry.

Claude Duet

  1. Don't plan an integration against Claude Duet. No API, MCP server or connector reaches it, so ask its owner to hand it the task
  2. Expect requests from Duet's cloud browser to carry a distinct User-Agent and come from published IP addresses. The string and the list weren't found on the pages read
  3. Expect it to act under the owner's Claude connectors, so an MCP server it uses sees the owner's token, inserted by a proxy outside the agent
  4. Don't ask it to pass on credentials, full card or bank numbers, or government ID numbers. Its classifier blocks them even when the owner asks
  5. Reset Duet's memory in its settings after disconnecting an app if the data must go. Disconnecting stops new access only

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or Claude Duet?

Boski scores 26.2 (F) on agent readiness against Claude Duet's 17.9 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Claude Duet leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

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Disclosure

Boski competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

Claude Duet competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds, and Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default. All three run on Claude, and every review of it carries a conflict label.

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