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    "a": {
      "slug": "deepseek-superagent",
      "name": "dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)",
      "vendor": "DeepSeek",
      "vendorUrl": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "dsh-superagent is DeepSeek's MIT-licensed research prototype of a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository, run as a DeepSeek Harness bundle. A main Session admits requests from allowed people and parallel Executor Sessions work them into pull requests.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-superagent.json",
      "dns": "deepseek-superagent.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "pat",
      "authNotes": "No account with the project. The agent acts through a dedicated GitHub user account signed in to a `gh` wrapper with `auth login`, and optionally a Feishu bot through `lark-cli`. DSH needs a model provider key. The local Management API takes no credential and accepts only loopback requests with `x-orchestrator-request: 1`.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with nothing to buy. The operator pays the model provider DSH is set up with, usually DeepSeek's API, for a main Session and one Session per Ticket.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, SETUP.md or docs/000 to 008 (checked 2026-11-01).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-01"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype/tree/main/docs",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "open-source",
        "mit",
        "typescript",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "pre-1.0",
        "preview",
        "telemetry-default-on"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-31",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 42.1,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1108,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1251,
        "categoryRank": 41,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 34,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 61,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "The authorization design is careful, with allowed lists, Mandates and a Policy enforced in code, proactive work only recorded by default and auto-merge off. Executors run every command without approval under the operator's OS user, and the README calls it a research prototype with no release, changelog or security policy.",
        "bestFor": "Teams on github.com that want a DeepSeek Harness agent to turn allowed people's issue requests into pull requests, run on an isolated machine or OS account.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT licence, with nine numbered design and operations documents that state each rule, from admission to restart recovery",
          "Only listed GitHub logins can start work by default, and messages, comments and prompts cannot change the gate, which code enforces",
          "Proactive work starts in `observe` mode, which records what the agent would have done and accepts nothing",
          "The agent never enables auto-merge as its own account, and the default merge rule needs approvals and fewer than 200 changed lines",
          "Setup and worker shells drop environment variables named KEY, PASSWORD, SECRET or TOKEN, and git uses only the agent account's credentials"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Executor and main Sessions run with `danger-full-access` as the operator's OS user, and the docs say a worker can read the operator's home directory",
          "The README calls it a research prototype, not an official DeepSeek product, at version 0.1.0 with no tag, release or changelog found",
          "Not on npm. Installing means a git clone, `pnpm build`, a pinned DSH release candidate, tmux and a dedicated GitHub user account",
          "The docs don't mention that DSH's shipped profiles upload the session log to DeepSeek with official API requests by default",
          "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or CI workflow found, and GitHub's issues and pull requests couldn't be read"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Run it under a dedicated OS account holding only the agent's credentials. Executors run commands without approval and can read the operator's home directory",
          "Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row of the `superagent` profile before using DeepSeek's official API on private code",
          "Keep the accept mode at `observe` and the allowed list short until the recorded Decisions look right",
          "Wait for `scripts/dsh-superagent status` to stop exiting 1 after any save that answers `restarting: true` before the next request",
          "Send `x-orchestrator-request: 1` and a loopback Host to the Management API, and send `revision` with each PUT, since a stale one gets 409"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 42.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 34,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 61,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 52,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-01",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-01",
            "payments": "2026-11-01",
            "reliability": "2026-11-01",
            "schema": "2026-11-01",
            "security": "2026-11-01",
            "transparency": "2026-11-01"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-01",
          "oldest": "2026-11-01",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install -g @deepseek-ai/dsh@0.2.1-rc.3 \u0026\u0026 git clone https://github.com/deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype dsh-superagent \u0026\u0026 cd dsh-superagent \u0026\u0026 pnpm install \u0026\u0026 pnpm build \u0026\u0026 dsh superagent --from-default-profile web --dump-config \u003e /dev/null \u0026\u0026 dsh plugin --profile superagent add \"link:$PWD\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/deepseek-superagent"
      },
      "sameCompany": [
        "deepseek-harness"
      ],
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "DeepSeek (the LICENSE names the DeepSeek Harness Team; DeepSeek Harness's terms name Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd.)",
        "domain": "github.com",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-01",
        "notes": [
          "The repository has no terms or privacy policy of its own. DeepSeek Harness's terms of use and privacy policy (both last updated 20 September 2026) name Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and cover the harness it runs on. The README says the prototype is not an official DeepSeek product.",
          "package.json names `DeepSeek Harness Team \u003cteam@dsh.dev\u003e` as author. dsh.dev didn't resolve from our network on 1 November 2026.",
          "No SECURITY.md in the root or .github, and www.deepseek.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 1 November 2026.",
          "No CHANGELOG.md, tags or releases found. GitHub's web pages and API weren't reachable, so files were read on raw.githubusercontent.com and the commit history, stars and issues are unchecked."
        ],
        "score": 52
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.json"
    },
    "answer": "Pi scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "earendil-pi",
      "name": "Pi",
      "vendor": "Earendil",
      "vendorUrl": "https://pi.dev",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Pi is an open-source terminal coding agent from Earendil, run on the owner's machine with any of 15 or more model providers. It has interactive, print, JSON and RPC modes, a TypeScript SDK and a built-in MCP client.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/earendil-pi.json",
      "dns": "earendil-pi.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/earendil-works/pi",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No Pi account needed. Model providers are connected with `/login` (a subscription or an API key, stored in `~/.pi/agent/auth.json`) or with environment variables such as `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`. MCP servers take headers, bearer tokens from the environment or OAuth, with tokens kept in `~/.pi/agent/mcp-auth.json`. Radius, the optional hosted gateway, needs its own sign-in or `RADIUS_API_KEY`.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, with no paid edition of the harness. The owner pays the model provider. Radius, Earendil's optional hosted gateway, is an early alpha sold by prepaid credits, and no public price list was found (checked 2026-10-23).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the repository or the docs (checked 2026-10-23).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 113417,
        "npmWeekly": 5201697,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://pi.dev/docs/latest",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "local",
        "free",
        "no-card",
        "typescript",
        "mcp",
        "json-output",
        "rpc",
        "no-sandbox"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-21",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.6,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 236,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1251,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 76,
          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 61,
          "transparency": 67
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-23"
        },
        "negative": -4,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-06-08. GHSA-jfgx-wxx8-mp94 (CVE-2026-54328, high). Temporary extension installs used predictable paths under the system temp directory, so another local user on a shared Linux host could plant extension code that Pi then loaded. Fixed in 0.78.1. Fixed, published and four months old, -2. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories/GHSA-jfgx-wxx8-mp94",
          "2026-06-08. GHSA-mqxh-6gq7-558m (CVE-2026-54325, medium). Before 0.79.0 Pi loaded a repository's `.pi` settings and extensions without asking, so starting it in a cloned repository could run that repository's code. Fixed in 0.79.0 with project trust. Fixed and published, -2. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories/GHSA-mqxh-6gq7-558m",
          "2026-06-08. GHSA-7v5m-pr3q-6453 (CVE-2026-54326, low, XSS in HTML session exports) and GHSA-r95r-rj6r-c39x (CVE-2026-54327, low, a race in `auth.json` permissions). Both fixed in 0.78.1. Recorded without a deduction. https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/security/advisories"
        ],
        "verdict": "Four default tools, a JSONL event stream, an RPC mode and MCP tools kept out of the model's declarations by default keep context small and scripting simple. Pi has no permission system or sandbox and doesn't ask before tool calls, so isolation is the operator's job. Version 1.4.0 is dated 21 October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container.",
        "strengths": [
          "Four default tools (read, bash, edit, write), with MCP tools reachable through codemode scripts and not declared to the model by default",
          "`--mode json` streams JSONL events and `--mode rpc` takes JSONL commands, both documented record by record, with a Python client example",
          "Built-in MCP client for stdio and streamable HTTP servers with OAuth, per-tool exposure settings and a conformance job in CI",
          "Project trust stops a repository's `.pi` settings, extensions and MCP servers loading until approved, and non-interactive modes skip them by default",
          "npm releases carry SLSA provenance from GitHub Actions trusted publishing, and the installer pins transitive dependencies"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No permission system or sandbox. Tool calls run with the user's rights and without an approval prompt",
          "An anonymous install and update ping to pi.dev and a latest-version request are on by default",
          "Four advisories published on 8 June 2026, one rated high and one medium, all fixed by 0.79.0",
          "No privacy policy for pi.dev or the CLI found, and pi.dev has no security.txt",
          "Eight of the last 15 CI runs on main failed on 7 and 8 October 2026, and breaking changes ship in patch and minor releases (1.0.3, 1.2.0)"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Run Pi inside a container or VM for unattended work. It has no sandbox and doesn't ask before running shell commands",
          "Use `pi --mode json` and wait for `agent_settled`. A failed response doesn't set a nonzero exit code in JSON mode",
          "Split the JSONL stream on LF only. Node's `readline` also splits on U+2028 and U+2029, which are valid inside JSON strings",
          "Pass `--no-approve` or `--approve` in scripts to make the project trust decision explicit",
          "Set `PI_TELEMETRY=0` and `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK=1`, or `PI_OFFLINE=1`, to stop the default requests to pi.dev"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 3.3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68.6
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 76,
          "maintenance": 87,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 61,
          "transparency": 64
        },
        "provenanceScore": 69,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-10-23",
            "maintenance": "2026-10-23",
            "payments": "2026-10-23",
            "reliability": "2026-10-23",
            "schema": "2026-10-23",
            "security": "2026-10-23",
            "transparency": "2026-10-23"
          },
          "last": "2026-10-23",
          "lastMoved": "2026-10-27",
          "oldest": "2026-10-23",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://pi.dev/install.sh | sh   # or: npm install -g --ignore-scripts @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent",
        "headless": {
          "command": "pi --mode json --no-session --no-approve \"$TASK\"",
          "env": {
            "PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK": "1",
            "PI_TELEMETRY": "0"
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/earendil-pi"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Earendil Inc.",
        "domain": "pi.dev",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-01-30",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://pi.dev/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-23",
        "notes": [
          "The pi.dev, earendil.com and radius.earendil.com footers read Earendil Inc. The Radius alpha terms of 1 September 2026 name Earendil Works Co., and the README calls the company Earendil Works.",
          "We found no terms or privacy page for pi.dev or the CLI. pi.dev/terms, pi.dev/privacy, earendil.com/privacy and radius.earendil.com/privacy return 404 (23 October 2026). Terms exist only for Radius, at radius.earendil.com/terms.",
          "pi.dev/.well-known/security.txt and earendil.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404 (23 October 2026). SECURITY.md gives security@earendil.com and GitHub private reporting.",
          "RDAP for pi.dev gives a registration date of 2024-01-30 with Cloudflare as registrar. The README says the domain was donated by exe.dev.",
          "The repository moved from badlogic/pi-mono to earendil-works/pi, and the npm package from @mariozechner/pi-coding-agent to @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent at 0.74.0, per the advisories."
        ],
        "score": 69
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "earendil-pi",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "earendil-works/pi",
            "version": "v1.4.0",
            "released": "2026-10-21",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-31T15:49:52.479718917Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent",
            "version": "1.4.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-31T15:49:51.681742629Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 119143,
        "npmWeekly": 5977988,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://pi.dev/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T15:40:38.784728776Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "pi.dev",
          "registered": "2024-01-30",
          "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/pi.dev",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:57:24.370263488Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://pi.dev/changelog",
            "kind": "deprecations",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-31T06:17:54.726697196Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-22T01:22:51.91550917Z",
            "fingerprint": "f3dfbad8123c"
          }
        ],
        "github": {
          "repo": "earendil-works/pi",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:24:56.680369301Z",
          "stars": 117866,
          "archived": false,
          "issuesEnabled": true,
          "pushedAt": "2026-10-25T08:05:44Z",
          "openIssues": 300,
          "openPRs": 87,
          "issuesOpened90d": 2994,
          "issuesClosed90d": 2780,
          "prsMerged90d": 367,
          "ci": {
            "branch": "main",
            "runs": 50,
            "success": 34,
            "failure": 3,
            "other": 13,
            "latest": "success",
            "latestAt": "2026-10-25T08:13:34Z"
          },
          "advisories": [
            {
              "ghsa": "GHSA-mqxh-6gq7-558m",
              "cve": "CVE-2026-54325",
              "severity": "medium",
              "published": "2026-06-08T15:54:14Z"
            },
            {
              "ghsa": "GHSA-jfgx-wxx8-mp94",
              "cve": "CVE-2026-54328",
              "severity": "high",
              "published": "2026-06-08T15:54:13Z"
            },
            {
              "ghsa": "GHSA-r95r-rj6r-c39x",
              "cve": "CVE-2026-54327",
              "severity": "low",
              "published": "2026-06-08T15:54:12Z"
            },
            {
              "ghsa": "GHSA-7v5m-pr3q-6453",
              "cve": "CVE-2026-54326",
              "severity": "low",
              "published": "2026-06-08T15:54:11Z"
            }
          ]
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-31T15:49:52.479718917Z"
      }
    },
    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 60,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "earendil-pi",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Local-package reading, since it runs as a DSH bundle on the operator's machine. Not published to npm (`private: true` in package.json, and the registry has no `dsh-superagent`). It installs from a git clone with `pnpm install \u0026\u0026 pnpm build` on top of `@deepseek-ai/dsh@0.2.1-rc.3`, with Node 22.19+ or 24+, git 2.32+, Python 3.8+, tmux and gh 2.48+ stated, so half credit (10). A vitest suite of about 25 spec files is listed in docs/007, and `pnpm check` runs the typecheck, tests and build. Two spec files were read on raw.githubusercontent.com. No CI workflow was found at five common paths under .github/workflows, and the directory couldn't be listed (5). Open issues couldn't be read, because github.com and api.github.com weren't reachable from our network. Unchecked, so scored absent (0). Version 0.1.0 with no tag, release or changelog found, so no semver record (0). A research prototype, not stable (0).",
          "b": "Read as a local package. `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent` 1.4.0 on npm with Node.js 22.19 or newer stated, install scripts for macOS, Linux and Windows, Nix and standalone binaries (20). A public CI workflow builds, checks and tests on every push to main and runs an MCP client conformance job. The run on the commit we cloned (ce950d7, 8 October 2026) passed, but eight of the last 15 runs on main, all on 7 and 8 October, failed. Run results weren't readable on 23 October, so this stands per the 8 October check (15). The repository API reported 308 open issues and pull requests against 113,417 stars on 8 October, not re-read on 23 October. Issues from new contributors are closed automatically and reviewed daily by maintainers, per CONTRIBUTING.md, so the open count understates what is reported, and we couldn't sample reply times (16). A dated changelog with Breaking Changes sections and migration steps, but breaking changes ship outside major versions. The Azure provider rename shipped in patch release 1.0.3 on 5 October 2026, minor release 1.2.0 on 12 October carried four (theme schema location, `before_agent_start`, busy-session behaviour and `pi mcp list --json` output), and 1.3.0 required `/v1` on `kimi-coding` base URL overrides under Changed. The same reading as agent-zero and mistral-vibe-cli (9). 1.4.0 on 21 October 2026, with 1.0.0 dated 1 October 2026 (15)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 15,
          "b": 75
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 53,
        "category": "maintenance",
        "leads": "earendil-pi",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Published on 31 October 2026, within 30 days, read as the last published change since no tag or release was found (30). One publication, so not three releases in 90 days (0). Issues, pull requests and Discussions couldn't be read, and the README frames the code as a reference prototype adapted from an internal version (0). No official SDK or registry entry (0). Exact dependency pins and a lockfile, but no CI workflow found, and the docs pin DSH 0.2.1-rc.3 (23 October 2026) while npm `latest` is 0.2.1-rc.5 (29 October 2026) (4).",
          "b": "v1.4.0 on 21 October 2026, two days before this check (30). 25 npm releases of the CLI from 25 July to 21 October 2026 (20). Commits land daily and the changelog credits issues and outside pull requests in most releases. New contributors' issues are closed automatically, reviewed daily, and get no reply if they miss the quality bar, per CONTRIBUTING.md. Reply times weren't sampled, because the GitHub API wasn't reachable on 8 or 23 October (16). npm, the pi.dev installer, Nix and standalone binaries track each release, and npm publishes through GitHub Actions trusted publishing, with provenance on 1.4.0 (14). Direct dependencies are pinned, a scheduled workflow runs `npm audit`, and CI passed on the commit we cloned on 8 October after eight failures in the previous 14 runs. CI results weren't readable on 23 October (7)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 34,
          "b": 87
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 28,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "earendil-pi",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. The `superagent` profile is created from DSH's Web template, and DSH documents that shipped profiles mount `session-log-deepseek`, enabled by default, which adds the session log to each official DeepSeek API request, up to 8 MiB. dsh-superagent's docs don't mention it, and its Sessions read issue, pull request and chat text and the repository. Setup and worker shells drop variables named KEY, PASSWORD, SECRET or TOKEN, and `GH_TOKEN` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` are removed from git (8). Both presets run `danger-full-access` without approval as the operator's OS user. docs/006 says the account wrappers don't isolate the process, a worker can run programs by path and read the operator's home directory, and recommends a dedicated OS account. The gate, `observe` default, blocked commands and no auto-merge as the agent account narrow what it does, not what it can do (6). docs/002 says messages, comments and quoted documents are inputs to a decision and can't change allowed lists, rules or Mandates, bots can never make explicit requests, and prompt edits don't change the gate. Workers with full access still read untrusted Thread text, and no further guidance on that was found (7). Decisions are recorded with reasons, Ticket details show the Trigger, Decision, scope and Policy version, the host records the prompt revisions each Session used, and every GitHub message starts with an automated-agent line by default (12). No SECURITY.md (404 at the root and in .github), no security.txt on www.deepseek.com (404), no bug bounty or advisory found. NVD has no record for the prototype. The CVEs against DSH itself are on the deepseek-harness listing (0).",
          "b": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, used for the harnesses in this category. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. An anonymous install and update ping to pi.dev/api/report-install (version and User-Agent, per the source), attribution headers to some providers, a latest-version request and model catalogue refreshes are on by default, each with an opt-out (`PI_TELEMETRY=0`, `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK`, `PI_OFFLINE`). Since 1.4.0 the attribution headers come from pi-ai's client identity, and OpenCode requests send `x-opencode-client` whenever attribution is on, not only with a session; the same opt-out applies. Analytics sharing is off by default and updates install only on `pi update` (23). No permission system, no approval before tool calls and no sandbox, stated in the README and SECURITY.md. Project trust gates a repository's `.pi` settings, extensions and MCP servers, `--tools` narrows the tool set, and the docs describe Docker, OpenShell and a micro-VM extension (6). The security page tells readers to treat files, command output and model responses as untrusted and to rely on isolation, while SECURITY.md puts prompt injection out of scope and context files such as AGENTS.md load whatever the trust decision (7). Sessions are JSONL files on disk with HTML export, MCP server logs go to `~/.pi/agent/mcp.log`, and the JSON stream records each tool call (11). SECURITY.md gives security@earendil.com and GitHub private reporting, four advisories with CVEs were published with fixes and no new one appears in the GitHub advisory database through OSV on 23 October 2026, npm releases carry provenance from trusted publishing, and a scheduled workflow runs `npm audit`. No security.txt and no bounty found (14)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 33,
          "b": 61
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 23,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "earendil-pi",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Framework reading, as for deepseek-harness. No OpenAPI or JSON Schema is published. docs/006 documents the Management API's routes, fields, block shapes and refusals in tables, and the code validates settings with zod (12). Markdown docs in the repository, readable raw, and a SETUP.md written for a coding agent. No llms.txt (5). Nine numbered documents read in order, each stating purpose, limits and what not to do, such as never rerunning the profile-creation command for an upgrade (17). Closed sets for accept mode (`off`, `observe`, `auto`), admission cells, Source states, health states and `listen` (12). A worked curl example, refusals as 400, 404, 409 and 500 with `issues`, `setup` or `code`, a troubleshooting table and status exit codes 0 to 3 (13). package.json says 0.1.0 and pins an `engines.dsh` range, but no changelog or tags were found (2).",
          "b": "Harness reading, as for the other harnesses. JSON Schemas for settings, models, keybindings and themes ship in the package and, since 1.2.0 on 12 October 2026, at pi.dev/schemas/, and the JSON event stream and every RPC command are documented record by record, but as Markdown and TypeScript types with no machine-readable spec for the RPC protocol (18). pi.dev/llms.txt returns 404. Each docs page answers `Accept: text/markdown` with Markdown, and the docs ship inside the npm package (8). The integration page has a table saying when to use interactive, print, JSON, RPC or the SDK, and the MCP page gives a typical use for each exposure setting. 1.4.0 adds a Models Configuration reference generated from the `models.json` schema (17). Enumerated modes, thinking levels and exposure values, typed settings with defaults (13). A Python RPC client, a typed TypeScript client and about 75 example extensions, with command errors and parse errors shown as records (13). A dated changelog in the repository and at pi.dev/changelog with an RSS feed (15)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 61,
          "b": 84
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 20,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "earendil-pi",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Self-hosted rule, as for the other open-source harnesses. No payment protocol (0). Free under MIT with nothing to buy (20). No card for the software (20). An agent can't get started alone, because the setup needs a person to create a dedicated GitHub user account, accept the repository invitation and run `auth login` for the wrappers, which SETUP.md lists as operator steps. 0, as the other harnesses that need an account were read (0). The model provider is a separate purchase.",
          "b": "No payment protocol in the repository or docs (0). Read with the self-hosted rule. Pi is free and MIT with nothing to buy, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. Model costs go to whichever provider the owner configures. Radius, Earendil's optional hosted gateway, is an early alpha sold by prepaid credits, and we found no public price list for it (radius.earendil.com/pricing returns 404 on 23 October 2026)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 40,
          "b": 60
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 15,
        "category": "transparency",
        "leads": "earendil-pi",
        "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 DeepSeek Harness Team (30). The prototype has no data statement of its own. DeepSeek Harness's privacy policy (last updated 20 September 2026) names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., says session logs are collected with official model services and may be used to train models with a right to opt out, and says custom model services aren't stored server-side. It agrees with DSH's session-log README, but neither is referred to from the prototype (12). No deprecation policy. The README says the published code differs from DeepSeek's internal version, and docs/006 warns that database migrations are one-way (3). Telemetry and the session-log upload are disclosed with opt-outs in DSH's own reference pages, not in this repository (6).",
          "b": "MIT (30). No privacy policy for pi.dev or the CLI was found (pi.dev/privacy, earendil.com/privacy and radius.earendil.com/privacy return 404 on 23 October 2026). The docs say where sessions and credentials are stored and what `/share` and `/bug` upload. The Radius alpha terms of 1 September 2026 name Earendil Works Co. and refer to a Privacy Notice we couldn't locate (10). Breaking changes are listed per release with migration steps, with no deprecation policy or notice period found. Pi Durable's README says its API changes without notice between releases (8). Install telemetry and the version check are documented in the settings and environment-variable pages with opt-outs, though the docs don't list the fields sent (16)."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 52,
          "b": 67
        }
      }
    ],
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      {
        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "DeepSeek",
        "b": "Earendil",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "Token",
        "b": "None",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Free",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "MIT",
        "b": "MIT",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-31",
        "b": "2026-10-21",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "no document linked",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-20",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk",
        "name": "Popularity"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "3.3/5 (4)",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Pi scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) or Pi?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "Yes. dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) is open source (MIT). Pi is open source (MIT).",
        "question": "Are dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) and Pi open source?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "also": [
          "No incidents deducted, where Pi loses 4 points for them"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Teams on github.com that want a DeepSeek Harness agent to turn allowed people's issue requests into pull requests, run on an isolated machine or OS account.",
        "slug": "deepseek-superagent",
        "watchFor": "Executor and main Sessions run with `danger-full-access` as the operator's OS user, and the docs say a worker can read the operator's home directory"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 75 against 15",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 61",
          "Agent ergonomics, 76 against 67",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 33",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 34",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 52"
        ],
        "also": [
          "No key needed to call it"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container.",
        "slug": "earendil-pi",
        "watchFor": "No permission system or sandbox. Tool calls run with the user's rights and without an approval prompt"
      }
    ],
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          "to": 68.6,
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  "markdown": "Pi scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek): grade E, 42.1/100, rank #1108 of 1251. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-superagent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deepseek-superagent.json\n- Pi: grade B, 68.6/100, rank #236 of 1251. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/earendil-pi.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/earendil-pi.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 955 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (E)\n\nGood for: Teams on github.com that want a DeepSeek Harness agent to turn allowed people's issue requests into pull requests, run on an isolated machine or OS account.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Pi loses 4 points for them\n\nWatch for: Executor and main Sessions run with `danger-full-access` as the operator's OS user, and the docs say a worker can read the operator's home directory\n\n### Pi (B)\n\nGood for: Developers and pipelines that want a small, scriptable coding agent they can extend in TypeScript and drive over JSONL or RPC, inside their own container.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 61\n- Agent ergonomics, 76 against 67\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 33\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 87 against 34\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: No permission system or sandbox. Tool calls run with the user's rights and without an approval prompt\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: Pi +60\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (15): Local-package reading, since it runs as a DSH bundle on the operator's machine. Not published to npm (`private: true` in package.json, and the registry has no `dsh-superagent`). It installs from a git clone with `pnpm install \u0026\u0026 pnpm build` on top of `@deepseek-ai/dsh@0.2.1-rc.3`, with Node 22.19+ or 24+, git 2.32+, Python 3.8+, tmux and gh 2.48+ stated, so half credit (10). A vitest suite of about 25 spec files is listed in docs/007, and `pnpm check` runs the typecheck, tests and build. Two spec files were read on raw.githubusercontent.com. No CI workflow was found at five common paths under .github/workflows, and the directory couldn't be listed (5). Open issues couldn't be read, because github.com and api.github.com weren't reachable from our network. Unchecked, so scored absent (0). Version 0.1.0 with no tag, release or changelog found, so no semver record (0). A research prototype, not stable (0).\n- Pi (75): Read as a local package. `@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent` 1.4.0 on npm with Node.js 22.19 or newer stated, install scripts for macOS, Linux and Windows, Nix and standalone binaries (20). A public CI workflow builds, checks and tests on every push to main and runs an MCP client conformance job. The run on the commit we cloned (ce950d7, 8 October 2026) passed, but eight of the last 15 runs on main, all on 7 and 8 October, failed. Run results weren't readable on 23 October, so this stands per the 8 October check (15). The repository API reported 308 open issues and pull requests against 113,417 stars on 8 October, not re-read on 23 October. Issues from new contributors are closed automatically and reviewed daily by maintainers, per CONTRIBUTING.md, so the open count understates what is reported, and we couldn't sample reply times (16). A dated changelog with Breaking Changes sections and migration steps, but breaking changes ship outside major versions. The Azure provider rename shipped in patch release 1.0.3 on 5 October 2026, minor release 1.2.0 on 12 October carried four (theme schema location, `before_agent_start`, busy-session behaviour and `pi mcp list --json` output), and 1.3.0 required `/v1` on `kimi-coding` base URL overrides under Changed. The same reading as agent-zero and mistral-vibe-cli (9). 1.4.0 on 21 October 2026, with 1.0.0 dated 1 October 2026 (15).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Pi +53\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (34): Published on 31 October 2026, within 30 days, read as the last published change since no tag or release was found (30). One publication, so not three releases in 90 days (0). Issues, pull requests and Discussions couldn't be read, and the README frames the code as a reference prototype adapted from an internal version (0). No official SDK or registry entry (0). Exact dependency pins and a lockfile, but no CI workflow found, and the docs pin DSH 0.2.1-rc.3 (23 October 2026) while npm `latest` is 0.2.1-rc.5 (29 October 2026) (4).\n- Pi (87): v1.4.0 on 21 October 2026, two days before this check (30). 25 npm releases of the CLI from 25 July to 21 October 2026 (20). Commits land daily and the changelog credits issues and outside pull requests in most releases. New contributors' issues are closed automatically, reviewed daily, and get no reply if they miss the quality bar, per CONTRIBUTING.md. Reply times weren't sampled, because the GitHub API wasn't reachable on 8 or 23 October (16). npm, the pi.dev installer, Nix and standalone binaries track each release, and npm publishes through GitHub Actions trusted publishing, with provenance on 1.4.0 (14). Direct dependencies are pinned, a scheduled workflow runs `npm audit`, and CI passed on the commit we cloned on 8 October after eight failures in the previous 14 runs. CI results weren't readable on 23 October (7).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Pi +28\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (33): Harness reading of the framework checklist, 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. The `superagent` profile is created from DSH's Web template, and DSH documents that shipped profiles mount `session-log-deepseek`, enabled by default, which adds the session log to each official DeepSeek API request, up to 8 MiB. dsh-superagent's docs don't mention it, and its Sessions read issue, pull request and chat text and the repository. Setup and worker shells drop variables named KEY, PASSWORD, SECRET or TOKEN, and `GH_TOKEN` and `GITHUB_TOKEN` are removed from git (8). Both presets run `danger-full-access` without approval as the operator's OS user. docs/006 says the account wrappers don't isolate the process, a worker can run programs by path and read the operator's home directory, and recommends a dedicated OS account. The gate, `observe` default, blocked commands and no auto-merge as the agent account narrow what it does, not what it can do (6). docs/002 says messages, comments and quoted documents are inputs to a decision and can't change allowed lists, rules or Mandates, bots can never make explicit requests, and prompt edits don't change the gate. Workers with full access still read untrusted Thread text, and no further guidance on that was found (7). Decisions are recorded with reasons, Ticket details show the Trigger, Decision, scope and Policy version, the host records the prompt revisions each Session used, and every GitHub message starts with an automated-agent line by default (12). No SECURITY.md (404 at the root and in .github), no security.txt on www.deepseek.com (404), no bug bounty or advisory found. NVD has no record for the prototype. The CVEs against DSH itself are on the deepseek-harness listing (0).\n- Pi (61): Harness reading of the framework checklist, used for the harnesses in this category. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. An anonymous install and update ping to pi.dev/api/report-install (version and User-Agent, per the source), attribution headers to some providers, a latest-version request and model catalogue refreshes are on by default, each with an opt-out (`PI_TELEMETRY=0`, `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK`, `PI_OFFLINE`). Since 1.4.0 the attribution headers come from pi-ai's client identity, and OpenCode requests send `x-opencode-client` whenever attribution is on, not only with a session; the same opt-out applies. Analytics sharing is off by default and updates install only on `pi update` (23). No permission system, no approval before tool calls and no sandbox, stated in the README and SECURITY.md. Project trust gates a repository's `.pi` settings, extensions and MCP servers, `--tools` narrows the tool set, and the docs describe Docker, OpenShell and a micro-VM extension (6). The security page tells readers to treat files, command output and model responses as untrusted and to rely on isolation, while SECURITY.md puts prompt injection out of scope and context files such as AGENTS.md load whatever the trust decision (7). Sessions are JSONL files on disk with HTML export, MCP server logs go to `~/.pi/agent/mcp.log`, and the JSON stream records each tool call (11). SECURITY.md gives security@earendil.com and GitHub private reporting, four advisories with CVEs were published with fixes and no new one appears in the GitHub advisory database through OSV on 23 October 2026, npm releases carry provenance from trusted publishing, and a scheduled workflow runs `npm audit`. No security.txt and no bounty found (14).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Pi +23\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (61): Framework reading, as for deepseek-harness. No OpenAPI or JSON Schema is published. docs/006 documents the Management API's routes, fields, block shapes and refusals in tables, and the code validates settings with zod (12). Markdown docs in the repository, readable raw, and a SETUP.md written for a coding agent. No llms.txt (5). Nine numbered documents read in order, each stating purpose, limits and what not to do, such as never rerunning the profile-creation command for an upgrade (17). Closed sets for accept mode (`off`, `observe`, `auto`), admission cells, Source states, health states and `listen` (12). A worked curl example, refusals as 400, 404, 409 and 500 with `issues`, `setup` or `code`, a troubleshooting table and status exit codes 0 to 3 (13). package.json says 0.1.0 and pins an `engines.dsh` range, but no changelog or tags were found (2).\n- Pi (84): Harness reading, as for the other harnesses. JSON Schemas for settings, models, keybindings and themes ship in the package and, since 1.2.0 on 12 October 2026, at pi.dev/schemas/, and the JSON event stream and every RPC command are documented record by record, but as Markdown and TypeScript types with no machine-readable spec for the RPC protocol (18). pi.dev/llms.txt returns 404. Each docs page answers `Accept: text/markdown` with Markdown, and the docs ship inside the npm package (8). The integration page has a table saying when to use interactive, print, JSON, RPC or the SDK, and the MCP page gives a typical use for each exposure setting. 1.4.0 adds a Models Configuration reference generated from the `models.json` schema (17). Enumerated modes, thinking levels and exposure values, typed settings with defaults (13). A Python RPC client, a typed TypeScript client and about 75 example extensions, with command errors and parse errors shown as records (13). A dated changelog in the repository and at pi.dev/changelog with an RSS feed (15).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Pi +20\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (40): Self-hosted rule, as for the other open-source harnesses. No payment protocol (0). Free under MIT with nothing to buy (20). No card for the software (20). An agent can't get started alone, because the setup needs a person to create a dedicated GitHub user account, accept the repository invitation and run `auth login` for the wrappers, which SETUP.md lists as operator steps. 0, as the other harnesses that need an account were read (0). The model provider is a separate purchase.\n- Pi (60): No payment protocol in the repository or docs (0). Read with the self-hosted rule. Pi is free and MIT with nothing to buy, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. Model costs go to whichever provider the owner configures. Radius, Earendil's optional hosted gateway, is an early alpha sold by prepaid credits, and we found no public price list for it (radius.earendil.com/pricing returns 404 on 23 October 2026).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Pi +15\n\n- dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) (52): MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 DeepSeek Harness Team (30). The prototype has no data statement of its own. DeepSeek Harness's privacy policy (last updated 20 September 2026) names Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., says session logs are collected with official model services and may be used to train models with a right to opt out, and says custom model services aren't stored server-side. It agrees with DSH's session-log README, but neither is referred to from the prototype (12). No deprecation policy. The README says the published code differs from DeepSeek's internal version, and docs/006 warns that database migrations are one-way (3). Telemetry and the session-log upload are disclosed with opt-outs in DSH's own reference pages, not in this repository (6).\n- Pi (67): MIT (30). No privacy policy for pi.dev or the CLI was found (pi.dev/privacy, earendil.com/privacy and radius.earendil.com/privacy return 404 on 23 October 2026). The docs say where sessions and credentials are stored and what `/share` and `/bug` upload. The Radius alpha terms of 1 September 2026 name Earendil Works Co. and refer to a Privacy Notice we couldn't locate (10). Breaking changes are listed per release with migration steps, with no deprecation policy or notice period found. Pi Durable's README says its API changes without notice between releases (8). Install telemetry and the version check are documented in the settings and environment-variable pages with opt-outs, though the docs don't list the fields sent (16).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) | Pi | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 75 | Pi +60 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 84 | Pi +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 76 | Pi +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 61 | Pi +28 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 60 | Pi +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 34 | 87 | Pi +53 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 67 | Pi +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **42.1 · E** | **68.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) | Pi |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | DeepSeek | Earendil |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | Token | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-31 | 2026-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-20 | no document linked |\n| Popularity | none | 113k stars, 5.2M npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Pi\n\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**dsh-superagent (DeepSeek).** The authorization design is careful, with allowed lists, Mandates and a Policy enforced in code, proactive work only recorded by default and auto-merge off. Executors run every command without approval under the operator's OS user, and the README calls it a research prototype with no release, changelog or security policy.\n\n**Pi.** Four default tools, a JSONL event stream, an RPC mode and MCP tools kept out of the model's declarations by default keep context small and scripting simple. Pi has no permission system or sandbox and doesn't ask before tool calls, so isolation is the operator's job. Version 1.4.0 is dated 21 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)\n\n1. Run it under a dedicated OS account holding only the agent's credentials. Executors run commands without approval and can read the operator's home directory\n2. Set `enabled: false` on the `session-log-deepseek` row of the `superagent` profile before using DeepSeek's official API on private code\n3. Keep the accept mode at `observe` and the allowed list short until the recorded Decisions look right\n4. Wait for `scripts/dsh-superagent status` to stop exiting 1 after any save that answers `restarting: true` before the next request\n5. Send `x-orchestrator-request: 1` and a loopback Host to the Management API, and send `revision` with each PUT, since a stale one gets 409\n\n### Pi\n\n1. Run Pi inside a container or VM for unattended work. It has no sandbox and doesn't ask before running shell commands\n2. Use `pi --mode json` and wait for `agent_settled`. A failed response doesn't set a nonzero exit code in JSON mode\n3. Split the JSONL stream on LF only. Node's `readline` also splits on U+2028 and U+2029, which are valid inside JSON strings\n4. Pass `--no-approve` or `--approve` in scripts to make the project trust decision explicit\n5. Set `PI_TELEMETRY=0` and `PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK=1`, or `PI_OFFLINE=1`, to stop the default requests to pi.dev\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) or Pi?\n\nPi scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)'s 42.1 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) and Pi open source?\n\nYes. dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) is open source (MIT). Pi is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-earendil-pi.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-earendil-pi.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"deepseek-superagent\", \"b\": \"earendil-pi\"}`. 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