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      "name": "IronClaw",
      "vendor": "NEAR AI",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.ironclaw.com",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "IronClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant written in Rust by NEAR AI. The owner runs it as a local service with a web interface, Slack and Telegram channels, Google and GitHub extensions, scheduled automations and persistent memory.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.md",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ironclaw.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw",
      "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
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      "authNotes": "`ironclaw onboard` writes a bearer token to `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token` and prints a login link that carries it as a `token` query parameter. The same token authorises the web interface and the Responses API with operator rights. Multi-user deployments can add Google or GitHub single sign-on and per-user API tokens with owner, admin or member roles. Connected accounts use OAuth (Google, Slack), a Telegram pairing code, or keys held in the encrypted secret store. The web interface binds to 127.0.0.1:3000 unless `--host` is changed (https://docs.ironclaw.com/using/webui.md).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to self-host under MIT or Apache-2.0, with model usage billed by whichever provider the owner selects, or nothing with Ollama. NEAR AI sells hosted instances on ironclaw.com as Starter (shown as $5 beside $0 a month, 1 agent, $5 credits), Basic at $20 a month (2 agents, $20 credits) and Pro+ at $200 a month (5 agents, $200 credits). The page does not say whether a card is needed. NEAR AI Cloud inference is priced per million tokens on near.ai/pricing (checked 2026-10-12).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
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        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "strengths": [
          "Dual MIT or Apache-2.0 licence, with installers for seven targets on GitHub releases and no account needed to run it",
          "Each extension tool declares a default permission, effects, network targets and OAuth scopes in `manifest.toml`. Gmail reads use `gmail.readonly` and sends use `gmail.send`",
          "Secrets are encrypted with AES-256-GCM per the README, with the master key in the OS keychain, and are injected into requests outside the sandbox",
          "No analytics library was found in the 1.4.1 source. Trace Commons is opt-in and has no default endpoint",
          "Six stable releases between 27 July and 29 September 2026, each with dated notes and upgrade steps"
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          "Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask",
          "The `main` branch has had no commit since 10 September 2026, and open reports filed since mid-September show no replies. 1,363 issues and 183 pull requests are open",
          "Docs pages for heartbeat, cron, shell and WASM limits name settings such as `HEARTBEAT_ENABLED` and `ALLOW_LOCAL_TOOLS` that do not appear in the 1.4.1 source",
          "No SECURITY.md, security.txt or published GitHub advisory was found",
          "The home page lists Discord and Signal integrations, while the channel docs say both are not part of the 1.0 release"
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          "Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts",
          "Install with the release installer and run `ironclaw onboard`. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory",
          "Call `POST /api/v1/responses` with the bearer token from `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token`. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds",
          "Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them",
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            "run": "2026-10-01",
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        "provenanceScore": 71
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
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          "item": "Hosted Basic plan (2 agents, $20 credits)",
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          "note": "NEAR AI Cloud, per ironclaw.com"
        },
        {
          "item": "Hosted Pro+ plan (5 agents, $200 credits)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "NEAR AI Cloud, per ironclaw.com"
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          "The NEAR AI terms of service (updated 24 September 2026) name Jasnah, Inc. d/b/a NEAR AI under Delaware law and cover NEAR AI Cloud and its API. They do not mention IronClaw or agent hosting, so no terms link is set and the MIT or Apache-2.0 licence stands in for the self-hosted software.",
          "The privacy policy (updated 4 September 2026) lists ironclaw.com, agent.near.ai, the IronClaw framework and IronHub among what it covers.",
          "The ironclaw.com home page says Built by Near Foundation and its footer says by NEAR AI.",
          "security.txt answered 404 on www.ironclaw.com, docs.ironclaw.com and near.ai.",
          "RDAP for ironclaw.com gives a registration date of 2018-01-04 and Cloudflare, Inc. as registrar, last changed 2026-04-20.",
          "A self-hosted instance answers on its owner's own host. Hosted instances answer at \u003cinstance-id\u003e.agents.near.ai per the quickstart."
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ironclaw.json"
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    "answer": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
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      "slug": "leon",
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      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "Open-source personal assistant by Louis Grenard that the owner runs on their own machine or server. The 2.0 Developer Preview adds an agent loop with tools, layered memory, computer use and a proactive pulse, reached through a web app.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/leon-ai/leon",
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          "registry": "npm",
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      "pricing": "free",
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      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
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      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/blob/develop/README.md",
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      "lastRelease": "2023-05-01",
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
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        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Connected-app credentials are encrypted per profile and the Gmail connection is read-only. The 2.0 Developer Preview has no tagged release, runs tools and a 30-minute proactive pulse with no approval step, listens on every network interface with client authentication off, and sends telemetry by default.",
        "bestFor": "A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.",
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          "Connected-app credentials are stored per profile with AES-256-GCM, and the Gmail connection asks only for the `gmail.readonly` scope",
          "Runs with a local llama.cpp model or any of 11 hosted providers, so the owner chooses which company sees the content",
          "Tool allow and disable lists, a configurable iteration limit (256 by default) and per-profile tool-call logs",
          "At least 200 commits between 25 September and 12 October 2026, with a fresh-install check passing on develop three times a week"
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          "No tagged release of the core since 1.0.0-beta.8 on 1 May 2023. The 2.0 Developer Preview is installed by cloning the develop branch",
          "No approval step before a tool call. Shell commands pass a blocklist of patterns, and the proactive pulse is on by default and runs one task every 30 minutes",
          "The server listens on 0.0.0.0 and client authentication is off in the sample config",
          "Telemetry is on in the sample config and posts an instance ID, versions and hardware details to telemetry.getleon.ai. The README and the docs pages read do not describe it",
          "No `SECURITY.md`, security.txt, privacy policy or 2.0 documentation, and no messaging-app channel or MCP client on the develop branch"
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          "Set `client_interface.auth.enabled: true` and a `LEON_PROFILE_TOKEN` before the machine joins a shared network. The server binds 0.0.0.0",
          "Set `telemetry_enabled: false` and `runtime.pulse_enabled: false` in the profile `config.yml` for an unattended or private run",
          "Use `availability.tools.allowed` to limit tools. Shell, file writes, computer use and browser control are otherwise available to the agent with no approval prompt",
          "Back up `LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY` from the profile `.env`. Without it the stored connections cannot be read"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
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      "area": "frameworks",
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          "getleon.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and the repository has no `SECURITY.md`. The GitHub API lists no published security advisory.",
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          "The assistant answers on the owner's own host. The only vendor endpoint the source names is telemetry.getleon.ai, which receives telemetry.",
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        "answer": "IronClaw scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Leon's 41 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, IronClaw or Leon?"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-leon.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-ironclaw.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-leon.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-ironclaw.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-leon.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-ironclaw.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-leon.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-ironclaw.json",
        "title": "Grok Bot vs IronClaw",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-leon.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-ironclaw.json",
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-leon.json",
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-ironclaw.json",
        "title": "Hermes Agent vs IronClaw",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-leon.json",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/leon.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/leon.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### IronClaw (B)\n\nGood for: One technical owner who wants a self-hosted assistant over Gmail, Calendar, Slack and Telegram with credentials kept out of the model's reach.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 32\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 74 against 33\n- Agent ergonomics, 69 against 57\n- Security \u0026 auth, 66 against 34\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 15\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 60\n\nWatch for: Global auto-approve defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask (send, trash, delete) run without a prompt. Only financial, approval and budget effects always ask\n\n### Leon (E)\n\nGood for: A developer who wants a self-hosted assistant with memory, computer use and a local model, and who will read the source.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No tagged release of the core since 1.0.0-beta.8 on 1 May 2023. The 2.0 Developer Preview is installed by cloning the develop branch\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | IronClaw | Leon | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 32 | IronClaw +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 33 | IronClaw +41 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 57 | IronClaw +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 34 | IronClaw +32 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 15 | IronClaw +59 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 60 | IronClaw +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.7 · B** | **41 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | IronClaw | Leon |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | NEAR AI | Louis Grenard (Leon AI) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2023-05-01 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | 13k stars | 18k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**IronClaw.** Credentials stay in an encrypted store and are injected at the host boundary, and extensions declare per-tool permissions, network targets and OAuth scopes. The global auto-approve setting defaults to on in the 1.4.1 source, so tools marked ask, such as `gmail.send_message`, run unprompted until the owner turns it off.\n\n**Leon.** Connected-app credentials are encrypted per profile and the Gmail connection is read-only. The 2.0 Developer Preview has no tagged release, runs tools and a 30-minute proactive pulse with no approval step, listens on every network interface with client authentication off, and sends telemetry by default.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### IronClaw\n\n1. Open Settings and turn off global auto-approve, or set send and delete tools to ask each time, before connecting mail or chat accounts\n2. Install with the release installer and run `ironclaw onboard`. 1.x does not migrate 0.29 data, so use a fresh home directory\n3. Call `POST /api/v1/responses` with the bearer token from `~/.ironclaw/reborn/webui-token`. Keep under 30 requests in 60 seconds\n4. Resolve approval and OAuth gates in the web interface. The Responses API fails the turn instead of surfacing them\n5. Connect MCP servers over HTTP only. The stdio transport is rejected\n\n### Leon\n\n1. Clone the develop branch for 2.0. `npm install --global @leon-ai/cli` and docs.getleon.ai install and describe the legacy 1.0 betas\n2. Set `client_interface.auth.enabled: true` and a `LEON_PROFILE_TOKEN` before the machine joins a shared network. The server binds 0.0.0.0\n3. Set `telemetry_enabled: false` and `runtime.pulse_enabled: false` in the profile `config.yml` for an unattended or private run\n4. Use `availability.tools.allowed` to limit tools. Shell, file writes, computer use and browser control are otherwise available to the agent with no approval prompt\n5. Back up `LEON_CONNECTIONS_ENCRYPTION_KEY` from the profile `.env`. 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