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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. 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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", "live": { "slug": "crush", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "charmbracelet/crush", "version": "v0.98.1", "released": "2026-10-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:43:44.92151309Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@charmland/crush", "version": "0.98.1", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:43:44.152270757Z" } ], "githubStars": 28696, "npmWeekly": 5594, "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T03:43:44.92151309Z" } }, "answer": "Prime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Crush leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "b": { "slug": "prime-agent", "name": "Prime Agent", "vendor": "Prime Intellect", "vendorUrl": "https://www.primeintellect.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Prime Agent is an open-source coding and research agent from Prime Intellect, run from a terminal. The model works through a persistent Python REPL, spawns subagents as function calls and keeps sessions running in a background daemon.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prime-agent.json", "repo": "https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account of its own is required. `/login` on first launch picks a subscription or an API-key provider, and provider keys can also come from environment variables such as `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` or `PRIME_API_KEY`.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT-licensed, with nothing to buy for the agent itself. The model provider is paid separately, and Prime Intellect's own inference service is one of the providers.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README or the source (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 21614, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent#readme", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "rust", "mcp", "telemetry-default-on", "pre-1.0", "beta" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.5, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 562, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 42, "security": 50, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and sessions survive a closed terminal through a supervising daemon. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and the Rust build on the main branch ships only as nightly betas.", "bestFor": "Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, with CI on main passing on 8 October 2026 (fmt, clippy with warnings as errors, sharded tests, cargo-deny)", "Three model tools (bash, edit, ipython). MCP tools are found and called from Python, so their definitions stay out of the prompt", "Autonomous mode takes limits on turns, tokens, time and continuations, plus user-defined quality gates with retries", "A daemon supervises one worker per session, restarts it with backoff and restores from append-only JSONL session files", "Telemetry is disclosed on first run, carries primitive values only and has four documented ways to turn it off" ], "weaknesses": [ "No approval prompts and no sandbox. The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox", "The stable channel (v0.9.8, 29 September 2026) is the TypeScript build. The Rust code on main ships only as nightly betas", "No documentation site for Prime Agent. Headless, JSON, RPC and ACP modes are described only in source and crate READMEs", "Usage telemetry is on by default, and the vendor privacy policy (updated 23 February 2024) does not describe it", "No SECURITY.md in the repository, and public issues and unsolicited pull requests are closed automatically" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "Set `PRIME_AGENT_TELEMETRY=0` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first run if usage metrics must not leave the machine", "For unattended runs pass `--autonomous-max-turns`, `--autonomous-max-tokens` and `--autonomous-timeout-ms`. Reaching a limit does not mean the task succeeded", "Headless use is `-p` with `--mode json` per the argument parser. A provider key must already be configured, because `/login` is interactive", "The `-t/--tools`, `-nt/--no-tools` and `-nbt/--no-builtin-tools` flags were removed and now fail as unknown options" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 65, "schema": 42, "security": 50, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 61 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://app.primeintellect.ai/prime-agent/install.sh | sh" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/prime-agent" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Prime Intellect, Inc.", "domain": "primeintellect.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.primeintellect.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.primeintellect.ai/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.primeintellect.ai", "changelog": "https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The site footer, terms and privacy policy name Prime Intellect, Inc. of Dover, Delaware. The repository LICENSE names Prime Intellect Ltd. as copyright holder.", "www.primeintellect.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. A security policy with a reporting address is at https://www.primeintellect.ai/security.", "The status page covers Prime Intellect's hosted platform (API, inference, sandboxes), not the locally run agent.", "The LICENSE adds that the software is a port of the Prime Agent TypeScript product, originally copyright 2025 Mario Zechner, used under the MIT licence. 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Crush leads on schema \u0026 documentation.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Crush or Prime Agent?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Crush. Prime Agent is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Crush and Prime Agent open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 42" ], "also": null, "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, 65 against 54", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 52", "Security \u0026 auth, 50 against 44", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 55", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 56" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Open source", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine.", "slug": "prime-agent", "watchFor": "No approval prompts and no sandbox. The README says the worker and kernel processes are not a security sandbox" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-crush.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Crush", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-crush" }, { "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-crush.json", "title": "Aider vs Crush", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-crush" }, { "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-crush.json", "title": "Amp vs Crush", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Crush vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Crush vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Crush vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Crush vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Crush vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Crush vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Crush vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-opencode.json", "title": "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-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/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/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/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/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/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-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/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-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/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-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/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-paperclip.json", "title": "Crush vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-paperclip" }, { "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/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/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" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 11, "crush": 54, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "prime-agent": 65, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 23, "crush": 65, "edge": "crush", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "prime-agent": 42, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 21, "crush": 52, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "prime-agent": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "crush": 44, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "prime-agent": 50, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "crush": 55, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "prime-agent": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 3, "crush": 82, "edge": "crush", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "prime-agent": 79, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "crush": 56, "edge": "prime-agent", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "prime-agent": 64, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Prime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Crush leads on schema \u0026 documentation. Both do agent harnesses.", "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.", "prime-agent": "Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and sessions survive a closed terminal through a supervising daemon. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and the Rust build on the main branch ships only as nightly betas." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent.min.md" }, "markdown": "Prime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Crush leads on schema \u0026 documentation. Both do agent harnesses.\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- Prime Agent: grade C, 60.5/100, rank #562 of 1146. 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 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\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 42\n\nWatch for: `crush run` approves every permission request automatically, which the README doesn't mention\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, 65 against 54\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 52\n- Security \u0026 auth, 50 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 55\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.3 out of 5\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## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Crush | Prime Agent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 54 | 65 | Prime Agent +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 42 | Crush +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 52 | 73 | Prime Agent +21 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 50 | Prime Agent +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 55 | 60 | Prime Agent +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 82 | 79 | Crush +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 64 | Prime Agent +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **56.5 · C** | **60.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Crush | Prime Agent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Charm | Prime Intellect |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\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 | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-09 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes |\n| Popularity | 29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk | 22k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.3/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |\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**Prime Agent.** Budgets for turns, tokens and time bound an autonomous run, and sessions survive a closed terminal through a supervising daemon. Model-written Python and shell commands run with the user's rights, with no approval step and no sandbox, and the Rust build on the main branch ships only as nightly betas.\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### 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, Crush or Prime Agent?\n\nPrime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Crush's 56.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Crush leads on schema \u0026 documentation.\n\n### Are Crush and Prime Agent open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Crush. Prime Agent is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-prime-agent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"crush\", \"b\": \"prime-agent\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare crush prime-agent`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crush.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/prime-agent.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Crush or Prime Agent\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-crush.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Aider vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-crush.md)\n- [Aider vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Amp vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-crush.md)\n- [Amp vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-crush.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs 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