{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cowagent", "name": "CowAgent", "vendor": "zhayujie", "vendorUrl": "https://cowagent.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "CowAgent is an open-source AI assistant that its owner runs on a computer or server. It plans tasks, runs tools and skills, keeps long-term memory in local files and answers on a web console and messaging apps.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cowagent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/zhayujie/CowAgent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "oci", "name": "zhayujie/chatgpt-on-wechat" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No account. The web console listens on 127.0.0.1 with no password by default, and `web_password` adds a login whose session lasts 30 days. `external_api_token` is one Bearer token for the OpenAI-compatible endpoint, which stays off while the token is empty (https://docs.cowagent.ai/channels/web). Messaging channels use each platform's bot token or app secret in `config.json`. Model keys go in `config.json` or environment variables.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy to run it. The owner pays the configured model provider, or nothing with a local model behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The README names LinkAI as a seller of managed hosting, and link-ai.tech did not answer on 12 October 2026, so its prices were not read.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 47400, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/intro/index", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client", "assistant.accounts" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "llms-txt", "docker", "python", "openai-compatible" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 58.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 673, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1244, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 84, "schema": 67, "security": 43, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-07-31. Issue #2998 reports that a member of a Feishu group asked the bot for local files and it sent the owner's documents into the group. This is the reporter's account and we did not reproduce it. We confirmed in the master source on 12 October 2026 that group channels accept every group, that full-access is the default and that the proposed sender gating is absent. Open and unfixed, -3. https://github.com/zhayujie/CowAgent/issues/2998", "2026-07-29. Version 2.1.5 fixed a chain in which injected content led the agent to rewrite the MCP config, run arbitrary commands and take keys, and fixed the `edit` tool reaching `~/.cow/.env`. Both are described in the release notes with no advisory. Fixed and documented, -2. https://docs.cowagent.ai/releases/v2.1.5" ], "verdict": "MIT software with seven releases in 90 days, memory kept as plain files in the owner's workspace and three per-session permission modes. Source and Docker installs default to full-access, no action asks for approval, and an open report of 31 July 2026 says group members could reach the owner's files through the bot.", "bestFor": "One technical owner who wants an assistant on WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Slack or Discord with memory in local files and a choice of Chinese and Western model providers.", "strengths": [ "Memory is plain Markdown under `~/cow` (`MEMORY.md`, `memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md`), readable and removable by the owner", "Three permission modes per session (read-only, workspace-write, full-access), with a global default in `agent_permission_mode`", "The web console binds to 127.0.0.1 by default, and the cloud client loads only when `use_linkai` and a deployment id are both set", "Seven tagged releases between 20 July and 30 September 2026, each with dated notes in the docs", "Tests run on Python 3.11 and 3.13 for every push to master, and the 15 newest master runs we saw passed on 12 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "Source and Docker installs default to full-access, and no mode asks the owner before a shell command, a file send or an MCP call", "The permission checks read arguments and are not an OS sandbox, as the source says. The `bash` blocklist covers only root deletion, disk wiping and power commands", "Issue #2998, open since 31 July 2026, reports the bot sending the owner's local documents into a Feishu group. Its fix is not on master", "No setting limits which Telegram, Slack or Discord users may message the bot, and those channels reply in every group", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt, privacy policy or terms. Model keys sit in `config.json` and MCP keys in `mcp.json` as plain text" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `agent_permission_mode` to `workspace-write` or `read-only` before connecting any channel. Source and Docker installs default to `full-access`", "Keep the bot out of group chats that include other people. Any member who mentions it reaches the same tools as the owner", "Set `web_password` before changing `web_host` to `0.0.0.0`. The password is empty by default", "Set `external_api_token` to enable `POST /v1/chat/completions`, and send `conversation_id` to keep one session. The `model` field does not select a model", "Run it in a container for a hard boundary. The docs and the source both say the permission modes are not isolation" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 58.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 83, "payments": 60, "reliability": 84, "schema": 67, "security": 43, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 31, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-12", "maintenance": "2026-10-12", "payments": "2026-10-12", "reliability": "2026-10-12", "schema": "2026-10-12", "security": "2026-10-12", "transparency": "2026-10-12" }, "last": "2026-10-12", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-12", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "bash \u003c(curl -fsSL https://cdn.link-ai.tech/code/cow/run.sh) # or: curl -O https://cdn.link-ai.tech/code/cow/docker-compose.yml \u0026\u0026 docker compose up -d", "http": "curl http://localhost:9899/v1/chat/completions -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"model\":\"cowagent\",\"conversation_id\":\"example-conversation\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cowagent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "cowagent.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/releases/overview", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "No company or legal entity is named for CowAgent. The licence names zhayujie, and the cowagent.ai footer reads Copyright 2026 CowAgent.", "The README lists sales@simple-future.tech and LinkAI (link-ai.tech) for enterprise services and managed hosting. link-ai.tech did not answer our robots.txt request on 12 October 2026, so none of its pages were read.", "cowagent.ai links no terms and no privacy policy. Its sitemap lists the home, download and blog pages only.", "cowagent.ai answers `/.well-known/security.txt` and `/llms.txt` with the home page, so neither file exists. docs.cowagent.ai serves an llms.txt.", "The registration date of cowagent.ai was not looked up." ], "score": 31 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.json", "live": { "slug": "cowagent", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "zhayujie/CowAgent", "version": "2.2.2", "released": "2026-10-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-30T14:06:42.172567293Z" } ], "githubStars": 47692, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cowagent.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T15:39:33.738494769Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T15:07:12.455980932Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cowagent.ai", "registered": "2026-02-06", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/cowagent.ai", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:49:06.264453079Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cowagent.ai/releases/overview", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-30T05:36:59.264972446Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-30T05:36:59.264972446Z", "fingerprint": "5ba7778e728e" } ], "github": { "repo": "zhayujie/cowagent", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T08:20:10.101686627Z", "stars": 47600, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-25T02:44:27Z", "openIssues": 15, "openPRs": 29, "issuesOpened90d": 135, "issuesClosed90d": 138, "prsMerged90d": 593, "ci": { "branch": "master", "runs": 50, "success": 46, "failure": 4, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-25T02:51:00Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-qwjc-xv6c-mqfx", "severity": "medium", "published": "2025-11-28T03:49:52Z" } ], "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 2, "medianDays": 1.1 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-30T15:39:33.738494769Z" } }, "answer": "CowAgent scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "skydive", "name": "Skydive", "vendor": "Create, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.skydive.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Skydive, from Create, Inc., hosts AI agents that each get a cloud Linux computer, file-based memory and connected apps. People reach them on the web, in Slack, by email, SMS or iMessage, in a Mac app or from a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json", "license": "Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.skydive.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "skydive-cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes a bearer API key (sky_live_...) with a `use` or `edit` scope, bound to one agent or to the account (https://www.skydive.com/docs/api-reference/overview.md). The CLI uses that key or a browser device sign-in, or SKYDIVE_SESSION_TOKEN for non-interactive use (https://www.skydive.com/docs/cli/authentication.md). People sign in to the web app with Google, Slack or a password (https://www.skydive.com/docs/changelog.md). Connected services use OAuth, MCP OAuth or stored secrets injected by Skydive's proxy.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free at US$0 a month, pay as you go with no card, starting with a small amount of credit. Starter is US$20 a month and Team US$200 a month, each flat per workspace with unlimited seats and agents, and the fee becomes usage credit 1:1. Enterprise is custom. Model usage is passed through at cost with no markup (the vendor's claim), and compute and metered services also draw the balance. A dedicated iMessage line is US$100 a month per agent (https://www.skydive.com/docs/account/pricing.md, checked 31 October 2026).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs llms.txt, the blog llms.txt, the OpenAPI document or the site's JS bundle, checked 31 October 2026. Usage is paid from a prepaid credit balance by card through the billing page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 5465, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-31" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.skydive.com/docs/get-started/welcome", "llmsTxt": "https://www.skydive.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.skydive.com/v1/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "assistant.memory", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.proactive", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent", "browser.hosted", "email.inbound", "email.send", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "messaging.inbound", "web.search", "desktop.control" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "no-card", "llms-txt", "openapi", "api-key", "cli", "status-page", "security-txt", "mcp-client", "slack", "email", "imessage", "sms", "macos", "desktop-app", "trains-on-data-by-default", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-26", "graded": true, "disclosure": "Skydive 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": 52.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 899, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1244, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 35, "reliability": 41, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-31" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claims, -5 for the three below together, read by us on 31 October 2026. 1) Training. The pricing page FAQ answers \"Is my data used to train models?\" with \"No. Your data is never used to train models, ours or anyone else's\", and the home page's security section says \"your data is never used to train models\", while the privacy policy (section 4) and the Terms of Service (9.2), both of 29 July 2026, say training on customer content \"is on by default\" with a workspace or organisation opt-out. Alone this would be Lindy's -3 for a pricing-page answer the vendor's own pages contradict (https://www.skydive.com/assets/main-MHOpsky7.js, https://www.skydive.com/privacy).", "2) Certification, one of the three. The home page says \"SOC 2 compliant\" twice and the site footer shows a badge with the alt text \"SOC 2 Type 1\", while the DPA (7.2) says that as of 29 July 2026 Create is pursuing SOC 2 compliance and does not represent that any SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report or certification has been completed, and the privacy policy says Create is pursuing SOC 2. No report or trust centre was found. Alone this would be the ScaleDown and Nevermined -2 (https://www.skydive.com/assets/main-MHOpsky7.js, https://www.skydive.com/dpa).", "3) Secrets, one of the three. The Secrets, Network controls and Permissioning pages say the agent never sees a secret, that it \"was never in the sandbox to begin with\" and that the design \"removes the whole class of risk\", and the pricing FAQ says secrets are \"never shown to the model\". The platform CLI, which the docs say is inside every agent's sandbox, lists `secrets get` to read a value and `secrets download --plain` to print raw values, and the OpenAPI description of setAgentSecret says the value becomes an environment variable in the sandbox. Alone this would be at least the -2 Picoclaw and OpenInstinct took for a security claim the product doesn't keep. None of the three is corrected, so the deduction is the top of the range for misleading claims rather than -7, as Self Agent Vault and AgentOS folded several claims into one deduction (https://www.skydive.com/docs/integrations/secrets.md, https://www.skydive.com/docs/capabilities/network.md, https://www.skydive.com/docs/api-reference/cli/secrets.md, https://www.skydive.com/docs/api-reference/platform-cli.md, https://api.skydive.com/v1/openapi.json)." ], "verdict": "Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.", "bestFor": "A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.", "disclosure": "Skydive 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": [ "A public OpenAPI 3.1 document covers all 11 API operations, and llms.txt indexes a Markdown copy of every docs page.", "API keys carry a read-only `use` or an `edit` scope, can be bound to one agent, are stored hashed and revoke immediately.", "Owners and admins get an always-on, exportable audit log covering secret access, API-key changes and sign-ins, per the Roles page.", "The privacy policy names 22 subprocessors and gives retention periods of 30, 60 and 90 days and 12 months.", "Free workspaces start with credit and no card, and per-token model rates are published at cost (the vendor's claim)." ], "weaknesses": [ "The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract.", "Several major incidents in 90 days, among them a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage on 28 and 29 October 2026, per status.skydive.com.", "The home page and pricing FAQ say data is never used to train models, while the privacy policy turns training on by default.", "The docs say agents never see secrets, but the platform CLI inside the sandbox can print raw secret values.", "The site says SOC 2 compliant and shows a SOC 2 Type 1 badge, while the DPA says no SOC 2 report has been completed." ], "agentNotes": [ "Send tasks with `skydive chat -p \"...\" --agent \u003cid\u003e --json` and pass `--conversation \u003cid\u003e` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.", "Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.", "Ask the owner for an agent-bound `use` key when you only need to read. Account-level `edit` keys can create agents and mint keys.", "Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.", "Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 59, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 35, "reliability": 41, "schema": 81, "security": 59, "transparency": 55 }, "provenanceScore": 95, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-31", "maintenance": "2026-10-31", "payments": "2026-10-31", "reliability": "2026-10-31", "schema": "2026-10-31", "security": "2026-10-31", "transparency": "2026-10-31" }, "last": "2026-10-31", "oldest": "2026-10-31", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g skydive-cli", "http": "curl https://api.skydive.com/v1/agents \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SKYDIVE_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.memory", "tool": "https://letme.dev/skydive" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, US$20 of usage credit a month. Yearly US$240 with US$264 of credit." }, { "item": "Team plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 200, "note": "Flat per workspace, unlimited seats, US$200 of usage credit a month. Yearly US$2,400 with US$2,640 of credit." }, { "item": "Dedicated iMessage line", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "Per agent, an add-on that grants no usage credit. A shared pool line is free." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Create, Inc.", "domain": "skydive.com", "domainRegistered": "1993-05-04", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.skydive.com/terms", "privacy": "https://www.skydive.com/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.skydive.com", "changelog": "https://www.skydive.com/docs/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-31", "notes": [ "skydive.com was registered 4 May 1993 and last changed 2 July 2026 (Amazon Registrar); getskydive.com was registered 21 May 2026 (Realtime Register) and redirects to www.skydive.com (https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/skydive.com).", "The DPA (https://www.skydive.com/dpa, last updated 29 July 2026) applies only to customers with an executed Order Form, and gives privacy@skydive.com and security@skydive.com as contacts.", "The privacy policy names subprocessors including E2B, Vercel, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Exa, Pierre, AWS, Cloudflare, Slack, AgentMail, Linq, Resend, Segment, PostHog, Sentry, Stripe, Metronome and Intercom, and points to skydive.com/subprocessors.", "robots.txt on www.skydive.com allows all; the docs robots.txt sends `Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes`. api.skydive.com/robots.txt returns 404.", "The home page and legal pages render client-side; their text was read from https://www.skydive.com/assets/main-MHOpsky7.js." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.json", "live": { "slug": "skydive", "probe": { "target": "https://api.skydive.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-31T04:23:20.573887289Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 322, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 335, "p95ms24h": 454, "samples24h": 23, "samples30d": 23, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 23, "ok": 23 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.skydive.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T04:24:46.86175428Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-31T04:24:46.86175428Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "zhayujie", "b": "Create, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://api.skydive.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. 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Skydive leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, CowAgent or Skydive?" }, { "answer": "CowAgent is open source (MIT). 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Lobby vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Natura tinyNature vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-skydive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive.json", "title": "Pally vs Skydive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 43, "cowagent": 84, "edge": "cowagent", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "skydive": 41, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 14, "cowagent": 67, "edge": "skydive", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "skydive": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "cowagent": 59, "edge": "", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "skydive": 59, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 16, "cowagent": 43, "edge": "skydive", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "skydive": 59, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 25, "cowagent": 60, "edge": "cowagent", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "skydive": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 27, "cowagent": 83, "edge": "cowagent", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "skydive": 56, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 28, "cowagent": 47, "edge": "skydive", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "skydive": 75, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "CowAgent scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.min.md" }, "markdown": "CowAgent scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.\n\n- CowAgent: grade C, 58.7/100, rank #673 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cowagent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cowagent.json\n- Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### CowAgent (C)\n\nGood for: One technical owner who wants an assistant on WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, Telegram, Slack or Discord with memory in local files and a choice of Chinese and Western model providers.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 84 against 41\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 83 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Source and Docker installs default to full-access, and no mode asks the owner before a shell command, a file send or an MCP call\n\n### Skydive (D)\n\nGood for: A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 43\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 47\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's `chat -p`, outside the OpenAPI contract.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | CowAgent | Skydive | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 84 | 41 | CowAgent +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 81 | Skydive +14 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 59 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 59 | Skydive +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 35 | CowAgent +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 56 | CowAgent +27 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 47 | 75 | Skydive +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **58.7 · C** | **52.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | CowAgent | Skydive |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |\n| Vendor | zhayujie | Create, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence. |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-08-26 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 47k stars | 5.5k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**CowAgent.** MIT software with seven releases in 90 days, memory kept as plain files in the owner's workspace and three per-session permission modes. Source and Docker installs default to full-access, no action asks for approval, and an open report of 31 July 2026 says group members could reach the owner's files through the bot.\n\n**Skydive.** Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### CowAgent\n\n1. Set `agent_permission_mode` to `workspace-write` or `read-only` before connecting any channel. Source and Docker installs default to `full-access`\n2. Keep the bot out of group chats that include other people. Any member who mentions it reaches the same tools as the owner\n3. Set `web_password` before changing `web_host` to `0.0.0.0`. The password is empty by default\n4. Set `external_api_token` to enable `POST /v1/chat/completions`, and send `conversation_id` to keep one session. The `model` field does not select a model\n5. Run it in a container for a hard boundary. The docs and the source both say the permission modes are not isolation\n\n### Skydive\n\n1. Send tasks with `skydive chat -p \"...\" --agent \u003cid\u003e --json` and pass `--conversation \u003cid\u003e` from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.\n2. Don't retry `chat -p` or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.\n3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound `use` key when you only need to read. Account-level `edit` keys can create agents and mint keys.\n4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.\n5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, CowAgent or Skydive?\n\nCowAgent scores 58.7 (C) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on schema \u0026 documentation, security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are CowAgent and Skydive open source?\n\nCowAgent is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Skydive.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-skydive.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cowagent\", \"b\": \"skydive\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cowagent skydive`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cowagent.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json\n\n## Other comparisons with CowAgent or Skydive\n\n- [asaply vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [asaply vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Asmi vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Asmi vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Boba vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Boba vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Brea vs CowAgent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-cowagent.md)\n- [Brea vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-skydive.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Del](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-del.md)\n- [CowAgent vs 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Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-talorys.md)\n- [DeepTutor vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deeptutor-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Hark Pro vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hark-pro-vs-skydive.md)\n- [LearnHarness vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/learnharness-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Skydive vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-szn.md)\n- [Skydive vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [Skydive vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Skydive vs Tasker AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tasker-ai.md)\n- [Skydive vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Skydive vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-town.md)\n- [Skydive vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Skydive vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zapia.md)\n- [Skydive vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Skydive vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/skydive-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-natura.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-tomo.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Lobby vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lobby-os-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-skydive.md)\n- [Pally vs Skydive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-skydive.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Skydive competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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