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Financial accounts connect through Plaid, and Caddy does not receive bank login credentials (https://caddy.app/privacy).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "\"Caddy is free to use\" (https://caddy.app/llms.txt, checked 14 October 2026). The terms say some parts of the service may require payment, with pricing given in the service (https://caddy.app/terms-of-service). No paid plan was published.", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on caddy.app, llms.txt and the terms, checked 14 October 2026.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-14" }, "llmsTxt": "https://caddy.app/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "messaging.inbound", "mailbox.read", "calendar.write", "tasks.create", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "free", "llms-txt", "ios" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-13", "graded": true, "disclosure": "Caddy 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 16.7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 996, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 32, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 55, "payments": 30, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-14" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Caddy is a free iMessage and RCS assistant in public beta that watches connected mail, calendars and work apps and asks before sending email or changing data. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found, though its iOS app ships every week or two.", "bestFor": "People who want a free assistant in iMessage or RCS that watches mail, calendars and work tools and asks before acting.", "disclosure": "Caddy 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.", "strengths": [ "Free, with Google sign-in and no card.", "Asks for approval before sending email, creating invites or changing data, per llms.txt.", "The privacy policy says customer data doesn't train models and is deleted within 30 days of account deletion.", "The bank link through Plaid is read-only.", "Eight iOS releases between 21 August and 13 October 2026." ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.", "In public beta.", "No status page, changelog, security.txt or security contact found.", "llms.txt says there's no app to install, while the App Store lists Caddy's iOS app.", "Model providers aren't named." ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to call Caddy from another agent. It answers the owner's text messages, Siri and group chats it's added to.", "Expect Caddy to ask the owner before it sends email or creates an invite." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 16.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 0, "maintenance": 55, "payments": 30, "reliability": 10, "schema": 10, "security": 0, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 60 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/caddy-app" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Caddy Technologies Inc.", "domain": "caddy.app", "domainRegistered": "2018-05-05", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://caddy.app/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://caddy.app/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-14", "notes": [ "The terms cover both trycaddy.ai and caddy.app.", "caddy.app/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No status page or changelog was found.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2018-05-05 for caddy.app, which may predate the company." ], "score": 60 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/caddy-app.json" }, "answer": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "hermes-agent", "name": "Hermes Agent", "vendor": "Nous Research", "vendorUrl": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Open-source personal agent from Nous Research that the owner runs on a computer or server. It answers on messaging apps, keeps memory between sessions, runs scheduled jobs and connects to accounts, models and MCP servers the owner configures.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "nousresearch/hermes-agent" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account of its own. Model and channel keys go in `~/.hermes/.env` or come from Bitwarden, 1Password or a command helper at start-up. Google Workspace, MCP servers and Nous Portal sign in by OAuth, with tokens stored under `~/.hermes/`. The optional API server takes a bearer key set in `API_SERVER_KEY`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence. The owner pays the model provider chosen, or nothing with a local model. Nous Portal plans ($0, $20, $100 and $200 a month in credits) and Hermes Cloud hosting ($0.51 a day running on the Standard size, plus inference) are optional and sold separately.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on Hermes Agent's own interfaces. An optional skill lets the agent pay other services over MPP, which is a client and not a way to pay for Hermes (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 253000, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "python", "docker", "llms-txt", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-11", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 67.9, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 244, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1010, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 60, "reliability": 57, "schema": 80, "security": 75, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-08. The v0.21.6 release notes list six security fixes, among them a native sign-in flaw that could send login codes to a non-loopback redirect and a quoted display name in the `From` header that affected the email gateway's sender check. SECURITY.md counts unauthorised access to an external surface as in scope, yet the repository shows no published advisory, so owners on older versions have no advisory to act on. Fixed and described in the notes, -3. https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases/tag/v0.21.6; https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/security/advisories" ], "verdict": "Card payments always ask first and are refused in unattended sessions, and the messaging gateway denies every sender until an allowlist is set. Shell commands run on the host by default with a model judging risk, and sending mail through the Google Workspace skill is held back only by an instruction to the model.", "bestFor": "A technical owner who wants one always-on agent across chat apps with memory and scheduled jobs, on their own machine or a small server, with any model.", "strengths": [ "Every saved-card fill asks for approval, and cron, webhook and API sessions are refused because nobody can confirm", "The messaging gateway denies all senders until an allowlist or a pairing code approved on the CLI is in place", "The docs say no telemetry, usage data or analytics is collected, and conversations, memory and skills stay in `~/.hermes/`", "SECURITY.md states that in-process checks are not a boundary and names OS-level isolation as the only one", "Ten releases between 19 August and 11 October 2026, the latest v0.21.7 on 11 October" ], "weaknesses": [ "The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default `smart` mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk", "The Google Workspace skill requests full Gmail, Calendar and Drive scopes, and its confirm-before-sending rule is an instruction in SKILL.md, not enforced in code", "Memory writes are saved without approval by default (`memory.write_approval: false`), including from a background review after each turn", "Release v0.21.6 of 8 October 2026 lists six security fixes and the repository has no published security advisory", "15,102 open issues and more than 5,000 open pull requests on 12 October 2026", "The Nous Portal terms grant Nous a licence to train models on customer data when the Portal is the model provider" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `approvals.mode: manual` before giving it real accounts. The default `smart` lets an auxiliary model approve commands", "Run the gateway with `terminal.backend: docker` or the project's Docker image when it reads mail, web pages or group chats", "Set `memory.write_approval: true` and `skills.write_approval: true` to review what it saves about the owner", "Leave `approvals.cron_mode` and `approvals.unattended_mode` at `deny` for scheduled and webhook runs", "Set `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` or the matching allowlist per channel. Never set `GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true`" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 67.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 80, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 60, "reliability": 57, "schema": 80, "security": 75, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 53 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/install.sh | bash # then: hermes setup", "headless": { "command": "hermes chat -q \"$TASK\" --format stream-json --max-turns 30" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hermes-agent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Nous Research, Inc.", "domain": "nousresearch.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The site footer reads Nous Research, Inc., and the Nous Portal terms name it as a Delaware corporation.", "No terms or privacy link is given. The Nous Portal terms and privacy policy (both dated 28 September 2026) govern the optional Portal and Hermes Cloud services, not the software the owner runs under the MIT licence, so the licence stands in.", "hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404. SECURITY.md in the repository gives security@nousresearch.com and GitHub private reporting.", "No status page applies to software the owner runs. None was looked for on the Portal.", "The domain registration date was not looked up." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.json", "live": { "slug": "hermes-agent", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "NousResearch/hermes-agent", "version": "v0.21.7", "released": "2026-10-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:01:14.428575735Z" } ], "githubStars": 253472, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://nousresearch.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:55.313190189Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T14:11:44.702877286Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T23:01:14.428575735Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Caddy Technologies Inc.", "b": "Nous Research", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Closed service under Caddy's Terms of Service (Caddy Technologies Inc., last updated 27 April 2026).", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-13", "b": "2026-10-11", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "253k stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Caddy or Hermes Agent?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Caddy. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Caddy and Hermes Agent open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "People who want a free assistant in iMessage or RCS that watches mail, calendars and work tools and asks before acting.", "slug": "caddy-app", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 57 against 10", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 10", "Agent ergonomics, 80 against 0", "Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 0", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 55", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A technical owner who wants one always-on agent across chat apps with memory and scheduled jobs, on their own machine or a small server, with any model.", "slug": "hermes-agent", "watchFor": "The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default `smart` mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk" } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Proactive personal assistants" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-caddy-app.json", "title": "asaply vs Caddy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-caddy-app" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "asaply vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-caddy-app.json", "title": "Asmi vs Caddy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-caddy-app" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Asmi vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-hermes-agent" }, { 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-orchid-ai.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Orchid", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-orchid-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-szn.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs szn", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-szn" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tab-bot.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Tab", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tab-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zapia.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Zapia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zapia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-caddy-app.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Caddy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-caddy-app" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-hermes-agent.json", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-gaia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "Caddy vs Gemini Spark", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-gemini-spark" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-grok-bot.json", "title": "Caddy vs Grok Bot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-grok-bot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-haven.json", "title": "Caddy vs Haven", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-haven" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Caddy vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-leon.json", "title": "Caddy vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Caddy vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Caddy vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Caddy vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-poke.json", "title": "Caddy vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.json", "title": "Caddy vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Caddy vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Caddy vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "folk vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "GAIA vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.json", "title": "Haven vs Hermes Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Instinct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs IronClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Leon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Town", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-natura.json", "title": "Caddy vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-pally.json", "title": "Caddy vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Caddy vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Caddy vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-natura.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Natura tinyNature", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-natura" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-pally.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Tomo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Wajo (Fo)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Caddy vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 47, "caddy-app": 10, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 57, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 70, "caddy-app": 10, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 80, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 80, "caddy-app": 0, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 80, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 75, "caddy-app": 0, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 75, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 30, "caddy-app": 30, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 60, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 29, "caddy-app": 55, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 84, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 11, "caddy-app": 52, "edge": "hermes-agent", "hermes-agent": 63, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.", "verdicts": { "caddy-app": "Caddy is a free iMessage and RCS assistant in public beta that watches connected mail, calendars and work apps and asks before sending email or changing data. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found, though its iOS app ships every week or two.", "hermes-agent": "Card payments always ask first and are refused in unattended sessions, and the messaging gateway denies every sender until an allowlist is set. Shell commands run on the host by default with a model judging risk, and sending mail through the Google Workspace skill is held back only by an instruction to the model." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hermes-agent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hermes-agent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hermes-agent.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hermes-agent.min.md" }, "markdown": "Hermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do proactive personal assistants.\n\n- Caddy: grade F, 16.7/100, rank #996 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/caddy-app.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/caddy-app.json\n- Hermes Agent: grade B, 67.9/100, rank #244 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hermes-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hermes-agent.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Caddy (F)\n\nGood for: People who want a free assistant in iMessage or RCS that watches mail, calendars and work tools and asks before acting.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Hermes Agent loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.\n\n### Hermes Agent (B)\n\nGood for: A technical owner who wants one always-on agent across chat apps with memory and scheduled jobs, on their own machine or a small server, with any model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 57 against 10\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 10\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 0\n- Security \u0026 auth, 75 against 0\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 55\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The default terminal backend runs commands on the host, and the default `smart` mode lets an auxiliary model approve commands it rates low-risk\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Caddy | Hermes Agent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 57 | Hermes Agent +47 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 80 | Hermes Agent +70 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 80 | Hermes Agent +80 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 0 | 75 | Hermes Agent +75 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | Hermes Agent +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 84 | Hermes Agent +29 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 63 | Hermes Agent +11 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **16.7 · F** | **67.9 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Caddy | Hermes Agent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Caddy Technologies Inc. | Nous Research |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under Caddy's Terms of Service (Caddy Technologies Inc., last updated 27 April 2026). | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-11 |\n| Terms last updated | | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Popularity | none | 253k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Caddy.** Caddy is a free iMessage and RCS assistant in public beta that watches connected mail, calendars and work apps and asks before sending email or changing data. No outside agent can call it, and no status page, changelog or security contact was found, though its iOS app ships every week or two.\n\n**Hermes Agent.** Card payments always ask first and are refused in unattended sessions, and the messaging gateway denies every sender until an allowlist is set. Shell commands run on the host by default with a model judging risk, and sending mail through the Google Workspace skill is held back only by an instruction to the model.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Caddy\n\n1. Don't plan to call Caddy from another agent. It answers the owner's text messages, Siri and group chats it's added to.\n2. Expect Caddy to ask the owner before it sends email or creates an invite.\n\n### Hermes Agent\n\n1. Set `approvals.mode: manual` before giving it real accounts. The default `smart` lets an auxiliary model approve commands\n2. Run the gateway with `terminal.backend: docker` or the project's Docker image when it reads mail, web pages or group chats\n3. Set `memory.write_approval: true` and `skills.write_approval: true` to review what it saves about the owner\n4. Leave `approvals.cron_mode` and `approvals.unattended_mode` at `deny` for scheduled and webhook runs\n5. Set `TELEGRAM_ALLOWED_USERS` or the matching allowlist per channel. Never set `GATEWAY_ALLOW_ALL_USERS=true`\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Caddy or Hermes Agent?\n\nHermes Agent scores 67.9 (B) on agent readiness against Caddy's 16.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Caddy and Hermes Agent open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Caddy. Hermes Agent is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hermes-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-hermes-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"caddy-app\", \"b\": \"hermes-agent\"}`. 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OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-poke.md)\n- [Caddy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.md)\n- [Caddy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [folk vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [GAIA vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Haven vs Hermes Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-hermes-agent.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Instinct](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-instinct.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs IronClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-poke.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Caddy vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-natura.md)\n- [Caddy vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-pally.md)\n- [Caddy vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Caddy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-natura.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-pally.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Caddy vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-talorys.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Caddy competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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