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A pinned toolchain, a committed lockfile and cargo-deny with two triaged advisory exceptions reviewed on 17 September 2026. CI passing per the 8 October check (not re-read), and the npm audit findings in issue #3292 not verified (7). 30 + 20 + 14 + 8 + 7 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "prime-agent", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading. Each task gets a workspace, branch, terminal and diff, with pull requests and merges from the app, and an API for integrations; not re-read in detail (55).", "b": "Harness reading, scored on what a person or pipeline driving it has to supply. The model sees three tools (bash, edit, ipython), and MCP tools are searched, described and called from Python instead of being loaded into the prompt (23). Autonomous mode has limits for turns, tokens, time and continuations, a goal token budget and automatic compaction (17). 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The README states what the agent does, how it differs and that it is not a sandbox, and the bundled skills say when to use each function (10). CLI values are validated with messages that list the valid choices, and MCP tool schemas are read live from the server (7). The README gives the install line and the main commands, the repository's docs folder adds Slack and Google Workspace MCP connector guides, and the MCP skill documents its error types, but there is no headless or configuration guide (5). Versioned stable releases and, since 0.10.1 on 21 October 2026, a dated CHANGELOG.md in the repository. 0.10.0 has no entry and the nightly betas have none of substance (13). 10 + 0 + 10 + 7 + 5 + 13 = 45." }, "scores": { "a": 60, "b": 45 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "transparency", "leads": "prime-agent", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with terms and privacy pages (15). 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The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox" } ], "history": { "conductor": null, "prime-agent": [ { "causes": [ "product", "correction", "event" ], "date": "2026-11-03", "delta": -3.9, "from": 60.7, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 56.8, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "evidence" ], "date": "2026-10-28", "delta": 0.2, "from": 60.5, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 60.7, "toGrade": "C" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0, "from": 60.5, "fromGrade": "C", "to": 60.5, "toGrade": "C" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Aider vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Aider vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Amp vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Amp vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-conductor.json", "title": "AXLR vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "AXLR vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Cline vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Cline vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-crush.json", "title": "Conductor vs Crush", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-crush" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Conductor vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-deepseek-superagent.json", "title": "Conductor vs dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-deepseek-superagent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-devin.json", "title": "Conductor vs Devin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-devin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-droid-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Droid CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-droid-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Conductor vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-emdash.json", "title": "Conductor vs Emdash", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-emdash" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-gemini-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Gemini CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-gemini-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-github-copilot-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs GitHub Copilot CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-github-copilot-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-goose.json", "title": "Conductor vs goose", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-goose" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-harness2.json", "title": "Conductor vs Harness²", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-harness2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Conductor vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-jules.json", "title": "Conductor vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-junie.json", "title": "Conductor vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-letta.json", "title": "Conductor vs Letta", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-letta" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Conductor vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-minimax-code.json", "title": "Conductor vs MiniMax Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-minimax-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Conductor vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openai-agents-api.json", "title": "Conductor vs OpenAI Agents API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openai-agents-api" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Conductor vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Conductor vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Conductor vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openmausbot.json", "title": "Conductor vs OpenMausBot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-openmausbot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-orca.json", "title": "Conductor vs Orca", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-orca" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-paseo.json", "title": "Conductor vs Paseo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-paseo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Conductor vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Conductor vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Conductor vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-sculptor.json", "title": "Conductor vs Sculptor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-sculptor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-t3-code.json", "title": "Conductor vs T3 Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-t3-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-traycer.json", "title": "Conductor vs Traycer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-traycer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-unstoppable.json", "title": "Conductor vs Unstoppable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-unstoppable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Conductor vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Conductor vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-warp.json", "title": "Conductor vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Crush vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Devin vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Pi vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emdash-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Emdash vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emdash-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "goose vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Harness² vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Junie CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Kimi Code CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letta-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Letta vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letta-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Mistral Vibe CLI vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Muse Code vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-agents-api-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenAI Agents API vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-agents-api-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenAI Codex vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Orca vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Paseo vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-sculptor.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Sculptor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-sculptor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-t3-code.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs T3 Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-t3-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-traycer.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Traycer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-traycer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-unstoppable.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Unstoppable", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-unstoppable" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-verdent.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-warp.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-conductor.json", "title": "Clawboo vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Clawboo vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-conductor.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Conductor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-conductor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "Conductor vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Conductor vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Conductor vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Harness vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "OpenMausBot vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Parallax vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-prime-agent" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 33, "conductor": 25, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "prime-agent": 58, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "conductor": 60, "edge": "conductor", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "prime-agent": 45, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "conductor": 55, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "prime-agent": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "conductor": 45, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "prime-agent": 50, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 60, "conductor": 0, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "prime-agent": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "conductor": 58, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "prime-agent": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 14, "conductor": 53, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "prime-agent": 67, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Prime Agent scores 56.8 (C) on agent readiness against Conductor's 41.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Conductor leads on schema \u0026 documentation. Both do agent harnesses.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "conductor": "Conductor ran parallel coding agents on the Mac, and Meta is acquiring it. It has taken no new users since 4 November 2026, Cloud turns read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November, and the local app winds down in early 2027, when all user data is deleted.", "prime-agent": "Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and a supervising daemon keeps sessions alive after the terminal closes. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and fixes to its own security flaws have shipped in releases with no advisory." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-prime-agent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-prime-agent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-prime-agent.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-prime-agent.min.md" }, "markdown": "Prime Agent scores 56.8 (C) on agent readiness against Conductor's 41.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Conductor leads on schema \u0026 documentation. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Conductor: grade E, 41.3/100, rank #1285 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/conductor.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/conductor.json\n- Prime Agent: grade C, 56.8/100, rank #815 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prime-agent.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Conductor (E)\n\nGood for: Existing Conductor users planning their move before Cloud closes on 20 November 2026 and the local app winds down in early 2027.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 60 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Prime Agent loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No new downloads or sign-ups since 4 November 2026\n\n### Prime Agent (C)\n\nGood for: Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 58 against 25\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 50 against 45\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 58\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 53\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: No approval prompts and no sandbox. The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Prime Agent +60\n\n- Conductor (0): No new sign-ups since 4 November, free users can't upgrade, and no price is shown. No protocol, no published price, no open free tier, no onboarding (0).\n- Prime Agent (60): Self-hosted rule. No payment protocol (0). Free and MIT-licensed with nothing to buy, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. The model provider is paid separately.\n\n### Reliability: Prime Agent +33\n\n- Conductor (25): Read as local software that is winding down. Installed from Conductor's own download, which stopped taking new users on 4 November 2026 (10). Closed source, so no public CI or issue tracker (0, 0). A dated changelog, newest 0.93.0 on 4 November (15). Version 0.93 (0). 10 + 0 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 25.\n- Prime Agent (58): Read with the local-software lines. The installer's stable channel now points at v0.10.2 (28 October 2026), the Rust build, with checksummed binaries for macOS and Linux on x64 and arm64 and for Windows x64, read from the channel manifest on 3 November 2026 (20). A public CI workflow runs fmt, clippy with warnings as errors, sharded workspace tests and cargo-deny on main. Its badge read passing on 8 October, but GitHub's pages answered 403 on 3 November, so the current pass state is unread (15). 20 open issues and 91 open pull requests on 8 October, with Discussions bug reports of session-worker crashes, truncated RPC output and provider hangs whose reply state we did not read, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 3 November (15). A dated CHANGELOG.md now covers 0.10.1 (21 October) and 0.10.2 (28 October), and 0.10.1 records the removal of the `--tools` flags, but no entry is marked breaking, 0.10.0 (9 October) has no entry and the project is at 0.x (8). Version 0.10.2, pre-1.0 (0). 20 + 15 + 15 + 8 + 0 = 58.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Prime Agent +21\n\n- Conductor (58): 0.93.0 on 4 November 2026 (30). Several dated releases in 90 days, per the changelog index (20). Discord, a subreddit and email for support (8). Closed app, no package or CI to read (0). 30 + 20 + 8 + 0 + 0 = 58. The local app gets new models and critical fixes only until early 2027.\n- Prime Agent (79): Stable v0.10.2 on 28 October 2026, six days before this check (30). 20 stable tags from v0.6.1 (5 August) to v0.10.2 in the 90 days from 5 August, beside more than 140 nightly beta tags since 30 September that a default install doesn't get (20). About 800 commits on main since 5 August. Issues from unapproved contributors and unsolicited pull requests are closed automatically, and reply times in Discussions are unread, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 3 November (14). Binaries for five targets from one release workflow and Homebrew definitions in the repository. No SDK and no registry package found (8). A pinned toolchain, a committed lockfile and cargo-deny with two triaged advisory exceptions reviewed on 17 September 2026. CI passing per the 8 October check (not re-read), and the npm audit findings in issue #3292 not verified (7). 30 + 20 + 14 + 8 + 7 = 79.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Prime Agent +18\n\n- Conductor (55): Harness reading. Each task gets a workspace, branch, terminal and diff, with pull requests and merges from the app, and an API for integrations; not re-read in detail (55).\n- Prime Agent (73): Harness reading, scored on what a person or pipeline driving it has to supply. The model sees three tools (bash, edit, ipython), and MCP tools are searched, described and called from Python instead of being loaded into the prompt (23). Autonomous mode has limits for turns, tokens, time and continuations, a goal token budget and automatic compaction (17). A JSON event stream and exit codes for headless runs, described in the crate README and source only (10). Sessions resume, the daemon restarts workers and restores from JSONL files, refinements can be rolled back and quality gates retry (15). One command starts it and no SDK was found. A provider must be chosen through an interactive `/login` or supplied as a key first (8).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Conductor +15\n\n- Conductor (60): Harness reading. Docs for workspaces, review and merge, a Conductor API reference page linked from the docs (not read), and security and permissions pages (60).\n- Prime Agent (45): Harness reading of the framework line. `--mode json` emits a session event stream and `rpc` and `acp` modes exist, but we found no published schema or reference for them outside the source (10). docs.primeintellect.ai serves an llms.txt that still had no Prime Agent page on 3 November 2026 (0). The README states what the agent does, how it differs and that it is not a sandbox, and the bundled skills say when to use each function (10). CLI values are validated with messages that list the valid choices, and MCP tool schemas are read live from the server (7). The README gives the install line and the main commands, the repository's docs folder adds Slack and Google Workspace MCP connector guides, and the MCP skill documents its error types, but there is no headless or configuration guide (5). Versioned stable releases and, since 0.10.1 on 21 October 2026, a dated CHANGELOG.md in the repository. 0.10.0 has no entry and the nightly betas have none of substance (13). 10 + 0 + 10 + 7 + 5 + 13 = 45.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Prime Agent +14\n\n- Conductor (53): Closed service with terms and privacy pages (15). The transition notice says when Cloud data deletion begins (20 November) and that all user data is deleted when the app shuts down in early 2027 (20 of 30). Dated shutdown notice (15 of 20). SOC 2 report on a trust portal, subprocessors not read (10 of 20). 15 + 20 + 15 + 10 = 60.\n- Prime Agent (67): MIT in the LICENSE file and Cargo.toml, with a notice that the code is a port of a TypeScript product originally copyright Mario Zechner (30). The first-run notice and the telemetry crate README say what is sent and what is excluded, and name the endpoint and PostHog, but the vendor privacy policy, re-read on 3 November 2026, is still dated 23 February 2024, does not describe agent telemetry and gives no retention period for it (12). No deprecation policy found. Removed flags are recorded in change fragments and, since 0.10.1, in CHANGELOG.md (5). Telemetry is disclosed with a setting, a command and two environment variables to turn it off (20). 30 + 12 + 5 + 20 = 67.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Conductor | Prime Agent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 58 | Prime Agent +33 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 45 | Conductor +15 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 73 | Prime Agent +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 45 | 50 | Prime Agent +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 60 | Prime Agent +60 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 79 | Prime Agent +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 53 | 67 | Prime Agent +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **41.3 · E** | **56.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Conductor | Prime Agent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Conductor (joining Meta) | Prime Intellect |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary. A closed-source Mac app and hosted Conductor Cloud under Conductor's terms | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | not read yet | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 22k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Conductor\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Prime Agent\n\n- -3.9 on 3 November 2026: product, correction, negative event\n- +0.2 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\n- no change on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Conductor.** Conductor ran parallel coding agents on the Mac, and Meta is acquiring it. It has taken no new users since 4 November 2026, Cloud turns read-only on 13 November and shuts down on 20 November, and the local app winds down in early 2027, when all user data is deleted.\n\n**Prime Agent.** Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and a supervising daemon keeps sessions alive after the terminal closes. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and fixes to its own security flaws have shipped in releases with no advisory.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Conductor\n\n1. Export your data from Settings, Account, Export data before 20 November 2026\n2. Move Cloud workspaces to your Mac with Transfer to local before 13 November\n3. Plan a move off the local app before early 2027; see the agent-harnesses category for alternatives\n\n### Prime Agent\n\n1. Run it in a disposable clone, container or VM. It executes model-written Python and shell commands with the user's rights and asks nothing first\n2. Set `PRIME_AGENT_TELEMETRY=0` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first run if usage metrics must not leave the machine\n3. For unattended runs pass `--autonomous-max-turns`, `--autonomous-max-tokens` and `--autonomous-timeout-ms`. Reaching a limit does not mean the task succeeded\n4. Headless use is `-p` with `--mode json` per the argument parser. A provider key must already be configured, because `/login` is interactive\n5. The `-t/--tools`, `-nt/--no-tools` and `-nbt/--no-builtin-tools` flags were removed and now fail as unknown options\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Conductor or Prime Agent?\n\nPrime Agent scores 56.8 (C) on agent readiness against Conductor's 41.3 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Conductor leads on schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Are Conductor and Prime Agent open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Conductor. Prime Agent is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-prime-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-prime-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"conductor\", \"b\": \"prime-agent\"}`. 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