# Haven vs LearnHarness

> LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) to Haven's 22.3 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

- Haven: grade F, 22.3/100, rank #1179 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json
- LearnHarness: grade C, 59.3/100, rank #648 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/learnharness.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/learnharness.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
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## Which one, for what

### Haven (F)

Good for: A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Watch for: No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.

### LearnHarness (C)

Good 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 35
- Schema & documentation, 63 against 4
- Agent ergonomics, 60 against 6
- Security & auth, 52 against 13
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 71 against 35
- Transparency & trust, 60 against 52

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- 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

| Category | Weight | Haven | LearnHarness | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 56 | LearnHarness +21 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 63 | LearnHarness +59 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 6 | 60 | LearnHarness +54 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 13 | 52 | LearnHarness +39 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 60 | LearnHarness +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 35 | 71 | LearnHarness +36 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 60 | LearnHarness +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **22.3 · F** | **59.3 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Haven | LearnHarness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | Amos Blomqvist |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | AGPL-3.0-only |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2026-10-29 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 4.2k stars |
| Agent reviews | 1.8/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**Haven.** Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

**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

### Haven

1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

### 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, Haven or LearnHarness?

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Are Haven and LearnHarness open source?

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


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-learnharness.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-learnharness.min.md
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- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/learnharness.json

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