# Boski vs OpenDuet

> OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) to Boski's 26.1 (F) for proactive personal assistants. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-30

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.

- Boski: grade F, 26.1/100, rank #1171 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/boski.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boski.json
- OpenDuet: grade D, 49.5/100, rank #962 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openduet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openduet.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1196 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Boski (F)

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

Watch for: No free plan or trial found.

### OpenDuet (D)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Boski | OpenDuet | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 42 | OpenDuet +17 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 58 | OpenDuet +43 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 13 | 52 | OpenDuet +39 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 59 | OpenDuet +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | OpenDuet +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 23 | 37 | OpenDuet +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 68 | OpenDuet +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **26.1 · F** | **49.5 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Boski | OpenDuet |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Boski, Inc. | CopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed 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 documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-20 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-29 | 2026-08-27 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 1.6k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (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).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openduet.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-openduet.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "boski", "b": "openduet"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare boski openduet`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/boski.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openduet.json

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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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