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

Boski vs nanobot

nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010 nanobotHKUDS · Agent harness B62.4/100#446 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.

Ahead on

  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 48

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where nanobot loses 6 points for them

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

nanobot B

Best for A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 77 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 13
  • Security & auth, 63 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 82 against 23

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskinanobotEdge
Reliability16%202570nanobot +45
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21577nanobot +62
Agent ergonomics13%16.21374nanobot +61
Security & auth14%17.54563nanobot +18
Payments & pricing10%12.51060nanobot +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82382nanobot +59
Transparency & trust7%8.86348Boski +15
Negative events≤150-6
TotalF 26.2/100B 62.4/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskinanobot
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorBoski, Inc.HKUDS
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).MIT
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-09-15
Terms last updatedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked
Customer content may train models
Terms restrict automated access
Terms restrict benchmarking
Terms or service can change without notice
Arbitration or class-action waiver
Popularitynone49k 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.

nanobot

nanobot runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, with no telemetry found in its source and memory kept as files the owner can read and restore. No per-action approval step was found, and the shell sandbox and workspace restriction are off by default. Five security advisories were published between March and September 2026, all with fixes.

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.

nanobot

  1. Set tools.restrictToWorkspace to true and tools.exec.sandbox to bwrap or seatbelt before giving it real accounts. Both are off by default
  2. Run 0.3.0 or later. Earlier versions carry the published SSRF flaw in web fetch (GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m)
  3. Keep allowFrom narrow on every channel and never set ["*"] on Email, which has no pairing
  4. Write secrets as ${VAR} references in ~/.nanobot/config.json. Plain values are stored in clear text
  5. Use nanobot -m "..." for a one-shot run, and keep nanobot gateway running for channels, schedules and heartbeat

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or nanobot?

nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on transparency & trust.

Are Boski and nanobot open source?

No open-source release is listed for Boski. nanobot is open source (MIT).

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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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