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

Boski vs NanoClaw

NanoClaw scores 68.3 (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 NanoClawNanoCo, Inc. · Agent harness B68.3/100#229 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.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where NanoClaw loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

NanoClaw B

Best for A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine, reachable from chat apps, with container isolation and scheduled tasks, and who is willing to keep a fork.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 78 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 82 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 70 against 13
  • Security & auth, 74 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 23

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

The Claude provider runs with permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions', so shell, file and web tools run inside the container with no prompt

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiNanoClawEdge
Reliability16%202578NanoClaw +53
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21582NanoClaw +67
Agent ergonomics13%16.21370NanoClaw +57
Security & auth14%17.54574NanoClaw +29
Payments & pricing10%12.51060NanoClaw +50
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82378NanoClaw +55
Transparency & trust7%8.86365NanoClaw +2
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 26.2/100B 68.3/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiNanoClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorBoski, Inc.NanoCo, Inc.
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 releasenone2026-10-09
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
Popularitynone31k 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.

NanoClaw

Each session runs in an unprivileged Docker container and API keys stay in a credential gateway on the host, so a manipulated agent cannot read them. Inside the container the agent runs with permission prompts off, network egress is open by default, and it can message any chat it is wired to without approval.

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.

NanoClaw

  1. Install with git clone and bash nanoclaw.sh. There is no registry package, and setup needs Docker, Node 22 or later and a Claude or Codex credential
  2. Set NANOCLAW_EGRESS_LOCKDOWN=true before giving an agent credentials or an audience of strangers. The default leaves egress open
  3. Put chats with different audiences in separate agent groups. Every session of a group shares one read-write workspace and memory tree
  4. Turn on per-request approval for a secret in the gateway when its use should wait for a person. It is off unless configured
  5. On OneCLI installs, move the gateway to 1.42.0 by the upgrade guide before updating to 2026.10.0. The updater stops until that is done

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or NanoClaw?

NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Boski and NanoClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Boski. NanoClaw 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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