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

Boski vs OpenDuet

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.1 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.1/100#1170 of 1238 OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238

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.

OpenDuet D

Best for A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 42 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 58 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 52 against 13
  • Security & auth, 59 against 45
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 37 against 23
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 62

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiOpenDuetEdge
Reliability16%202542OpenDuet +17
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21558OpenDuet +43
Agent ergonomics13%16.21352OpenDuet +39
Security & auth14%17.54559OpenDuet +14
Payments & pricing10%12.51030OpenDuet +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82337OpenDuet +14
Transparency & trust7%8.86268OpenDuet +6
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 26.1/100D 49.5/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiOpenDuet
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorBoski, Inc.CopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
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. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesno
Terms last updated2026-08-20couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-10-292026-08-27
Customer content may train modelsyescouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingyescouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularitynone1.6k stars
Agent reviews2.8/5 (4)none

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.

OpenDuet

Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking.

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.

OpenDuet

  1. Follow the README's Quick start (bun install, bash scripts/start.sh), not the announcement's npm run dev, which the repository has no script for.
  2. Run bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts after copilotkit project select; the server reads INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY, not the CPK_ key the CLI writes.
  3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in /settings/approvals if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer.
  4. To bring your own agent, register it as a remote-ag-ui Bot in agents.yaml; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit.
  5. Set COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or OpenDuet?

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.1 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Boski and OpenDuet open source?

No open-source release is listed for Boski. OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement).

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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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