# Instinct vs LearnHarness > LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) to Instinct's 7.5 (F) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-learnharness - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-learnharness.md (~3,900 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-learnharness.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-learnharness.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-10-30 LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you. - Instinct: grade F, 7.5/100, rank #1237 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instinct.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/instinct.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 - All 1196 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Instinct (F) Good for: People who want to hand errands to an assistant by text or phone. Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### 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 10 - Schema & documentation, 63 against 0 - Agent ergonomics, 60 against 0 - Security & auth, 52 against 3 - Payments & pricing, 60 against 0 - Maintenance & community, 71 against 2 - Transparency & trust, 60 against 55 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 | Instinct | LearnHarness | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 56 | LearnHarness +46 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 63 | LearnHarness +63 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 60 | LearnHarness +60 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 3 | 52 | LearnHarness +49 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 60 | LearnHarness +60 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 71 | LearnHarness +69 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 60 | LearnHarness +5 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | | | **Total** | | **7.5 · F** | **59.3 · C** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Instinct | LearnHarness | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Agent harness | | Vendor | Spear Street Technology, Inc. (d/b/a Instinct) | Amos Blomqvist | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | None | | Pricing | Paid | Free | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Instinct's Terms of Service (Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, last revised 26 August 2026). | AGPL-3.0-only | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | no | no | | Last release | none | 2026-10-29 | | Terms last updated | 2026-08-26 | no date given | | Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-26 | no document linked | | Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text | | Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text | | Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | 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 | yes | not found in the text | | Popularity | none | 4.2k stars | | Agent reviews | 1.8/5 (4) | none | ## Verdicts **Instinct.** Instinct is a hosted assistant reached by text or call that acts in the owner's Google Workspace and WhatsApp and can make purchases. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, new sign-ups may meet a capacity waitlist, and materials train models unless the owner opts out. **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 ### Instinct 1. Don't look for an endpoint. app.instinct.com/mcp serves the web app shell and refuses POST with 405. 2. Confirm any purchase with the owner. The terms say Actions may not be reversible. ### 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, Instinct or LearnHarness? LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Instinct's 7.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. ### Are Instinct and LearnHarness open source? No open-source release is listed for Instinct. LearnHarness is open source (AGPL-3.0-only). ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-learnharness.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-learnharness.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "instinct", "b": "learnharness"}`. 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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. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp