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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Grok Bot vs Skydive

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1245 assistants comparisons

Grok BotAnysphere, Inc. (Cursor) · Platform F24.3/100#1180 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

Grok Bot F

Best for People already paying for Cursor or SuperGrok who want agents working across web apps, files and email from a cloud computer.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

Watch for

No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint lets an outside agent send a Bot a task.

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 30
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 10
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 0
  • Security & auth, 59 against 14
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 64

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runGrok BotSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%203041Skydive +11
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.21081Skydive +71
Agent ergonomics13%16.2059Skydive +59
Security & auth14%17.51459Skydive +45
Payments & pricing10%12.53035Skydive +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85656even
Transparency & trust7%8.86475Skydive +11
Negative events≤150-5
TotalF 24.3/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactGrok BotSkydive
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorAnysphere, Inc. (Cursor)Create, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under the Grok Bot Terms (last updated 12 October 2026), which supplement Anysphere's Cursor Terms of Service (last updated 3 September 2026).Closed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-10-062026-08-26
Terms last updated2026-10-12couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-29couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessyescouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textcouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textcouldn't be read
Popularitynone5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews2.3/5 (4)none

Verdicts

Grok Bot

Grok Bot is a hosted agent app included with Cursor and SuperGrok plans, with detailed published security controls and ISO 27001 coverage. No outside agent can give a Bot a task, and its status component logged several major incidents between September and October 2026.

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

Before you call either

Grok Bot

  1. Don't plan to call Grok Bot from another agent. Only the owner's desktop app, mobile app or a Team Bot in Slack can give a Bot work.
  2. Treat mail from a mail.grokbot.com address as sent by an agent. Sending needs its owner's request or approval.
  3. Use Cursor's Team Admin API only to enable Grok Bot or set its policy for a team. It can't send tasks.
  4. Check status.cursor.com's Grok Bot component before relying on a running routine.

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Grok Bot or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Grok Bot's 24.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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Disclosure

Grok Bot 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.

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

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