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

Boski vs Poke

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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BoskiBoski, Inc. · Platform F26.2/100#981 of 1010 PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#960 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

  • Security & auth, 45 against 24
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 58

Watch for

No free plan or trial found.

Poke F

Best for One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 51 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 42 against 15
  • Agent ergonomics, 30 against 13
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 10
  • Maintenance & community, 31 against 23

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runBoskiPokeEdge
Reliability16%202551Poke +26
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21542Poke +27
Agent ergonomics13%16.21330Poke +17
Security & auth14%17.54524Boski +21
Payments & pricing10%12.51030Poke +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.82331Poke +8
Transparency & trust7%8.86358Boski +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 26.2/100F 37.6/100

Facts side by side

FactBoskiPoke
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorBoski, Inc.The Interaction Company of California Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Boski's Terms of Service (Boski, Inc., a Delaware corporation, effective 20 August 2026).Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtyesyes
Last releasenone2026-06-25
Terms last updated2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsyes
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

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.

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

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.

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Boski or Poke?

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Boski's 26.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Boski leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

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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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