{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "crush", "name": "Crush", "vendor": "Charm", "vendorUrl": "https://charm.land", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Terminal coding agent from Charm, written in Go, that works with the model of the owner's choice. It has a TUI, a one-shot `crush run` mode, LSP context, MCP servers, Agent Skills and an optional local client-server mode.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crush.json", "repo": "https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush", "license": "FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available)", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@charmland/crush" }, { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/charmbracelet/crush" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No Charm account is needed. Provider keys come from environment variables such as `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` or `OPENAI_API_KEY`, the model picker or a `crushrc`, local models need none, and Charm's Hyper provider uses a device login. `crush server` has no authentication and listens on a per-user Unix socket by default.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The CLI is free to use under FSL-1.1-MIT. You pay your model provider, or Charm's Hyper subscription, which the README says has a free tier. Hyper's public provider file lists per-million-token figures for 22 models. Plan prices sit in a script-rendered app and weren't read.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs folder or the source (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 29000, "npmWeekly": 5594, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush#readme", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "source-available", "go", "mcp", "telemetry-default-on", "pre-1.0", "freemium", "no-card", "local" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 56.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 705, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 26, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 55, "reliability": 54, "schema": 65, "security": 44, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Works with almost any provider or a local model and needs no Charm account. `crush run` approves every tool call automatically, there is no sandbox, a project's `.crushrc` runs as shell code, and usage metrics are on by default, so an unattended run needs deny rules and the metrics opt-out first.", "bestFor": "Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks.", "strengths": [ "Any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible provider, Bedrock, Vertex, Azure and local models through Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio or LiteLLM, with no Charm account", "PreToolUse hooks, compatible with Claude Code's format, can block or rewrite tool calls", "Releases cosign-signed, with CodeQL, Grype and govulncheck in CI", "20 releases in the 90 days to 18 October 2026, the latest on 9 October", "Built for macOS, Linux, Windows, Android and three BSDs, with packages for npm, Homebrew, Winget, Scoop, apt, yum and Nix" ], "weaknesses": [ "`crush run` approves every permission request automatically, which the README doesn't mention", "No sandbox, only a fixed list of refused shell commands", "A project's `.crushrc` and `$(...)` in `crush.json` run as code when Crush starts", "Usage metrics are on by default and are linked to the Hyper account after a Hyper login", "No JSON output, turn limit or cost limit for `crush run`, and the client-server API is opt-in and has no authentication" ], "agentNotes": [ "Add `permissions deny` rules or a PreToolUse hook before `crush run`. It approves every permission request in its session", "Read `.crushrc`, `crushrc` and `crush.json` in a cloned repository before running Crush there. They execute as shell code at startup", "Set `CRUSH_DISABLE_METRICS=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop usage metrics to data.charm.land", "Wrap `crush run` in your own timeout. It has no turn, time or cost limit flag", "Configure a provider by environment variable or `crushrc` first. With none, `crush run` exits with an error asking for interactive setup" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 56.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 55, "reliability": 54, "schema": 65, "security": 44, "transparency": 49 }, "provenanceScore": 63 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @charmland/crush # or: brew install charmbracelet/tap/crush", "headless": { "command": "crush run --quiet \"$TASK\"", "env": { "CRUSH_DISABLE_METRICS": "1" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/crush" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Hyper, qwen3.8-max (default large model), input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "output $6, from Hyper's public provider file" }, { "item": "Hyper, deepseek-v4.1-flash (default small model), input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 0.33, "note": "output $1.31, from Hyper's public provider file" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Charmbracelet, Inc.", "domain": "charm.land", "domainRegistered": "2023-08-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "LICENSE.md and the charm.land footer name Charmbracelet, Inc.", "charm.land/privacy, charm.land/terms and charm.land/.well-known/security.txt return Charm's not-found page. Hyper links Terms of Service and a Privacy Policy at hyper.charm.land/legal, which render by script and weren't read.", "The organisation's SECURITY.md gives vt100@charm.sh for reports. The crush repository has no SECURITY.md of its own.", "Release notes are generated from commit messages on GitHub releases. There is no CHANGELOG file in the repository." ], "score": 63 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.json" }, "answer": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "paperclip", "name": "Paperclip", "vendor": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://paperclip.ing", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Paperclip is an open-source, self-hosted server and web interface that organises AI agents into a company with an org chart, tasks, budgets and approvals. It drives Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and other harnesses through adapters.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json", "repo": "https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "paperclipai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@paperclipai/mcp-server" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No Paperclip account. The default `local_trusted` mode needs no login on loopback. Authenticated mode uses browser sessions for people, board API keys for scripts, and agent API keys or short-lived run JWTs as bearer tokens.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, self-hosted, with nothing to buy. The owner pays each harness's model provider or subscription. Paperclip Cloud is a waitlist with no published price.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the site or the server source (checked 2026-10-08). The only mention in the repository is a link to a third-party skill in a planning note.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 98666, "npmWeekly": 59684, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.paperclip.ing", "llmsTxt": "https://paperclip.ing/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "llms-txt", "docker", "mcp", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 625, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 21, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 60, "reliability": 66, "schema": 81, "security": 64, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -10, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-04-10 to 2026-04-16. Ten advisories published in a week, four of them critical, among them GHSA-68qg-g8mg-6pr7 (CVE-2026-41679, 10.0, unauthenticated remote code execution through an import authorisation bypass) and two cross-tenant agent key flaws rated 9.9. All ten list 2026.416.0 as the fix. Fixed and published, a little under six months old, -5. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories", "2026-07-22. GHSA-x8hx-rhr2-9rf7 (9.6), drive-by remote code execution against the default `local_trusted` mode through DNS rebinding. The advisory names no patched version. The current source applies the hostname guard to `local_trusted` private deployments, so we read it as fixed without a documented version, -3. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories/GHSA-x8hx-rhr2-9rf7", "2026-04-16. GHSA-gqqj-85qm-8qhf (8.7), a `codex_local` agent inherited a Gmail connector from the owner's ChatGPT account and sent real email. The advisory names no patched version, and `codex_local` still defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, -2. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories/GHSA-gqqj-85qm-8qhf" ], "verdict": "Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026.", "bestFor": "Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.", "strengths": [ "One deployment runs agents on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and OpenClaw through adapters, under one org chart", "Board approvals gate agent hires and the CEO agent's strategy, and connection actions can be set to Allowed, Ask first or Off", "Budgets by company, agent and project pause an agent at 100 per cent of recorded spend", "The running server publishes its REST surface as OpenAPI at `/api/openapi.json`, and the docs site answers every page as Markdown at `.md`", "Eleven stable releases between 20 July and 5 October 2026, each with dated notes and an upgrade guide" ], "weaknesses": [ "`claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host", "Twelve published security advisories since April 2026, five critical, including CVE-2026-41679 (unauthenticated remote code execution, fixed in 2026.416.0)", "Anonymous usage telemetry is on by default and goes to telemetry.paperclip.ing until an opt-out is set", "2,849 open issues on 8 October 2026, 1,396 of them with no comment, and 78 closed in 30 days against 686 opened", "Calendar versions with no 1.0, and release 2026.916.0 carried five breaking changes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default", "Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider", "Install with Node.js 24.11 or newer, and install and sign in to each harness CLI on the host first. Paperclip assumes they are there", "Use `--bind lan` or `--bind tailnet` at onboarding for anything beyond one machine. The default `local_trusted` mode treats every request as the board admin", "Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 60, "reliability": 66, "schema": 81, "security": 64, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 56 }, "connect": { "install": "npx paperclipai@latest onboard --yes # Node.js 24.11 or newer", "http": "curl http://localhost:3100/api/health", "headless": { "command": "npx paperclipai issue create --title \"$TASK\" --json", "env": { "PAPERCLIP_API_KEY": "\u003cboard or agent key\u003e", "PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED": "1" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/paperclip" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.", "domain": "paperclip.ing", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-02", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://paperclip.ing/terms/", "privacy": "https://paperclip.ing/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://paperclip.ing/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms (effective 1 April 2026, updated 23 July 2026) and the privacy policy (effective 23 July 2026) name Paperclip Labs, Inc. and Delaware law. The licence file in the repository reads Copyright (c) 2025 Paperclip AI.", "RDAP at the .ing registry gives a registration date of 2026-03-02 for paperclip.ing, with Cloudflare as registrar. The GitHub repository was created the same day.", "paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt and docs.paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. SECURITY.md sends reports to GitHub private advisories.", "The software is self-hosted, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check. status.paperclip.ing did not answer.", "The privacy policy says it governs the hosted services, and that a self-hosted deployment processes data on the owner's infrastructure." ], "score": 56 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.json", "live": { "slug": "paperclip", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "paperclipai/paperclip", "version": "v2026.1012.0", "released": "2026-10-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-18T03:09:24.174224711Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@paperclipai/mcp-server", "version": "2026.1012.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-18T03:09:22.198495143Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "paperclipai", "version": "2026.1012.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-18T03:09:21.983179363Z" } ], "githubStars": 103693, "npmWeekly": 32343, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:54:16.942268583Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T14:25:48.746516299Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "paperclip.ing", "registered": "2026-03-02", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/paperclip.ing", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:29:35.530747495Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:34:43.492722029Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:35.777028506Z", "fingerprint": "874daecee6a2" }, { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:34:45.666086583Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:37.971216507Z", "fingerprint": "4b2a8faa9979" }, { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:34:47.704435424Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:40.00773926Z", "fingerprint": "2076edf48663" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T23:34:47.704435424Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Charm", "b": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available)", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-09", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-07-23", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-07-23", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes, with an opt-out", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk", "b": "99k stars, 60k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.3/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Crush or Paperclip?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Crush. Paperclip is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Crush and Paperclip open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Paperclip loses 10 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks.", "slug": "crush", "watchFor": "`crush run` approves every permission request automatically, which the README doesn't mention" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 54", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 65", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 52", "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 44", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 55", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 56" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.", "slug": "paperclip", "watchFor": "`claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` 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"Crush vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Crush vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-openhands" }, { "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/crush-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Crush vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Crush vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Crush vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Crush vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-warp.json", "title": "Crush vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Amp vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-crush.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Crush", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-crush" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Cline vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "Crush vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Crush vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Devin vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "goose vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Harness vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Jules vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Junie CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Kimi Code CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Mistral Vibe CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Muse Code vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "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/paperclip-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-warp.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-warp" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 12, "crush": 54, "edge": "paperclip", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "paperclip": 66, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 16, "crush": 65, "edge": "paperclip", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "paperclip": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 18, "crush": 52, "edge": "paperclip", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "paperclip": 70, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 20, "crush": 44, "edge": "paperclip", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "paperclip": 64, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "crush": 55, "edge": "paperclip", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "paperclip": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 4, "crush": 82, "edge": "crush", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "paperclip": 78, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 9, "crush": 56, "edge": "paperclip", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "paperclip": 65, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do multi-agent orchestration.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "crush": "Works with almost any provider or a local model and needs no Charm account. `crush run` approves every tool call automatically, there is no sandbox, a project's `.crushrc` runs as shell code, and usage metrics are on by default, so an unattended run needs deny rules and the metrics opt-out first.", "paperclip": "Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip.min.md" }, "markdown": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do multi-agent orchestration.\n\n- Crush: grade C, 56.5/100, rank #705 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crush.json\n- Paperclip: grade C, 59/100, rank #625 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Crush (C)\n\nGood for: Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Paperclip loses 10 points for them\n\nWatch for: `crush run` approves every permission request automatically, which the README doesn't mention\n\n### Paperclip (C)\n\nGood for: Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 54\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 65\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 52\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 55\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: `claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Crush | Paperclip | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 54 | 66 | Paperclip +12 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 81 | Paperclip +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 70 | Paperclip +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 64 | Paperclip +20 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 60 | Paperclip +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 78 | Crush +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 65 | Paperclip +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -10 | |\n| **Total** | | **56.5 · C** | **59 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Crush | Paperclip |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Charm | Paperclip Labs, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available) | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-23 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-23 |\n| Customer content may train models | | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk | 99k stars, 60k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Crush.** Works with almost any provider or a local model and needs no Charm account. `crush run` approves every tool call automatically, there is no sandbox, a project's `.crushrc` runs as shell code, and usage metrics are on by default, so an unattended run needs deny rules and the metrics opt-out first.\n\n**Paperclip.** Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Crush\n\n1. Add `permissions deny` rules or a PreToolUse hook before `crush run`. It approves every permission request in its session\n2. Read `.crushrc`, `crushrc` and `crush.json` in a cloned repository before running Crush there. They execute as shell code at startup\n3. Set `CRUSH_DISABLE_METRICS=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` to stop usage metrics to data.charm.land\n4. Wrap `crush run` in your own timeout. It has no turn, time or cost limit flag\n5. Configure a provider by environment variable or `crushrc` first. With none, `crush run` exits with an error asking for interactive setup\n\n### Paperclip\n\n1. Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default\n2. Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider\n3. Install with Node.js 24.11 or newer, and install and sign in to each harness CLI on the host first. Paperclip assumes they are there\n4. Use `--bind lan` or `--bind tailnet` at onboarding for anything beyond one machine. The default `local_trusted` mode treats every request as the board admin\n5. Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Crush or Paperclip?\n\nPaperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are Crush and Paperclip open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Crush. Paperclip is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crush\", \"b\": \"paperclip\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare crush paperclip`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crush.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Crush or Paperclip\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-crush.md)\n- [Aider vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-crush.md)\n- [Amp vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-crush.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-crush.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-crush.md)\n- [Claude Code vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-crush.md)\n- [Cline vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-crush.md)\n- [Crush vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [Crush vs DeepSeek Harness 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