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

Boski vs IronClaw

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010 IronClawNEAR AI · Agent harness B66.7/100#288 of 1010

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.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

IronClaw B

Best for One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 67 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 69 against 13
  • Security & auth, 66 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 74 against 23
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 63

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiIronClawEdge
Reliability16%202567IronClaw +42
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21574IronClaw +59
Agent ergonomics13%16.21369IronClaw +56
Security & auth14%17.54566IronClaw +21
Payments & pricing10%12.51060IronClaw +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82374IronClaw +51
Transparency & trust7%8.86375IronClaw +12
Negative events≤150-2
TotalF 26.2/100B 66.7/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiIronClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorBoski, Inc.NEAR AI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).MIT OR Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-09-29
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date given
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone13k stars

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.

IronClaw

Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as gmail.send_message, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.

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.

IronClaw

  1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts
  2. Install with the release installer and run ironclaw onboard. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory
  3. Call POST /api/v1/responses with the bearer token from ~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds
  4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them
  5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or IronClaw?

IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Boski and IronClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Boski. IronClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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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.

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