Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Del vs LearnHarness

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Del's 20.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

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Which one, for what

Del F

Best for People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent.

LearnHarness C

Best for A tutor for one learner that keeps a local record of sessions and a graph of propositions and reasoning chains.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 56 against 25
  • Schema & documentation, 63 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 60 against 0
  • Security & auth, 52 against 0
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 71 against 60

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

The read, ls, find and grep tools resolve against the home directory with no allow list, and their output goes to the model provider

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDelLearnHarnessEdge
Reliability16%202556LearnHarness +31
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21063LearnHarness +53
Agent ergonomics13%16.2060LearnHarness +60
Security & auth14%17.5052LearnHarness +52
Payments & pricing10%12.53060LearnHarness +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86071LearnHarness +11
Transparency & trust7%8.85660LearnHarness +4
Negative events≤1500
TotalF 20.5/100C 59.3/100

Facts side by side

FactDelLearnHarness
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorHuman Interface, Inc.Amos Blomqvist
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 2026).AGPL-3.0-only
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-10-072026-10-29
Terms last updated2026-08-05no date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-30no document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularitynone4.2k stars
Agent reviews2.8/5 (4)none

Verdicts

Del

Del is a hosted texting assistant and task workspace across iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord and Slack, with a near-daily public changelog and a card-free 14-day trial. No outside agent can call it, no status page or security contact was found, and recent updates let some email actions skip approval.

LearnHarness

The in-app agent reads files but cannot change them or run commands, and a bundled skill gives other agents a documented read-only view of sessions and the knowledge graph. The project is 14 days old at 0.4.0, its file reads reach the whole home directory without approval, and it has no security policy.

Before you call either

Del

  1. Don't plan to call Del from another agent. It answers only the owner's messaging threads and web workspace.
  2. Tell the owner web browsing tasks are limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro.

LearnHarness

  1. Use the bundled skill (skills/learnharness/SKILL.md) to read a learner's record. It needs Python 3.10 or later and writes nothing
  2. Pass --format json before the subcommand, for example python3 -B scripts/graph.py --format json propositions
  3. Treat stored answer keys and teacher prose as model-authored. A proposition in the graph is not evidence the learner understood it
  4. Do not read auth.json, which sits one folder above the data folder and holds provider keys in plain text
  5. Close the app or re-read when a stable snapshot matters. The readers do not lock files while the app writes

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Del or LearnHarness?

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Del's 20.5 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Del and LearnHarness open source?

No open-source release is listed for Del. LearnHarness is open source (AGPL-3.0-only).

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Disclosure

Del competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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