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      "slug": "jules",
      "name": "Jules",
      "vendor": "Google LLC",
      "vendorUrl": "https://jules.google",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent, which clones a GitHub repository into a cloud virtual machine, plans, edits and opens pull requests. Outside agents drive it through an alpha REST API, a TypeScript SDK, an MCP package and a CLI.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json",
      "dns": "jules.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/google-labs-code/jules-sdk",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@google/jules"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@google/jules-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@google/jules-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-Goog-Api-Key` header. Keys are created by a person in Settings in the Jules web app, at most three at a time, shown once and revocable there, and publicly exposed keys are disabled automatically. Keys carry no scopes. The discovery document also lists Google OAuth with the broad cloud-platform scope. The Jules Tools CLI signs in with a Google account in the browser (`jules login`). Repository sources need the Jules GitHub app installed through the web app.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks. Jules in Pro (100 a day, 15 concurrent) and Jules in Ultra (300 a day, 60 concurrent) come with the Google AI Pro and Ultra plans, and the Google AI plans page lists AI Plus with expanded Jules limits (jules.google/docs/usage-limits and one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans, checked 2026-10-18). Paid plans are for personal @gmail.com accounts, with an interest form for business users. The plan prices render per locale and weren't read. No per-task or per-call price.",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Jules docs, the API reference, the discovery document or the plans pages (checked 2026-10-18).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 8,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-05"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://jules.google/docs/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://jules.google/docs/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "hosted",
        "cloud-agent",
        "closed-source",
        "api-key",
        "alpha",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "no-status-page",
        "stale-release",
        "freemium"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-03-09",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 45.1,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1203,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1510,
        "categoryRank": 48,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 18,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 13,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-05"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Google is winding Jules down. Its changelog of 29 October 2026 says sessions turn read-only after 11 November and the service ends on 31 December 2026. Until then the v1alpha API takes only a prompt to start a session and logs every plan, command and diff, with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key.",
        "bestFor": "Nobody starting new work, since Jules turns read-only after 11 November 2026 and ends on 31 December 2026.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public discovery document for jules.googleapis.com v1alpha with 13 methods, typed schemas, enums and required fields, revision 20261015",
          "Only `prompt` is required to create a session. A session without `sourceContext` runs repoless in a fresh cloud VM",
          "Activities record plans, messages, bash commands with exit codes and git patches, and can be filtered by `create_time` to fetch only new events",
          "The wind-down notice gives dated steps and an export of settings, memories and every session through the Jules Tools CLI",
          "Free plan of 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks with a Google account, and docs served as Markdown with an llms.txt index"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Jules turns read-only after 11 November 2026 and winds down on 31 December 2026, per the changelog of 29 October",
          "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025, and before the wind-down notice the newest changelog entry was 9 March 2026",
          "No status page, no request rate figures, no Retry-After guidance and no idempotency key on session creation were found",
          "API sessions auto-approve their plans unless `requirePlanApproval` is true, and the MCP server defaults to an automated run that opens a pull request",
          "A person must sign in with Google, install the Jules GitHub app and create the key in the web app. Keys carry no scopes"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't start new work on Jules. Sessions turn read-only after 11 November 2026 and the service ends on 31 December 2026",
          "Export settings, memories and session history with the Jules Tools CLI before 31 December 2026, following the changelog's 29 October entry",
          "Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review",
          "Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another",
          "Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 4,
        "avgRating": 2.8,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 45.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 18,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 13,
          "schema": 76,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 35
        },
        "provenanceScore": 67,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-05",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-05",
            "payments": "2026-11-05",
            "reliability": "2026-11-05",
            "schema": "2026-11-05",
            "security": "2026-11-05",
            "transparency": "2026-11-05"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-05",
          "lastMoved": "2026-11-05",
          "oldest": "2026-11-05",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install -g @google/jules   # Jules Tools CLI, then: jules login",
        "http": "curl 'https://jules.googleapis.com/v1alpha/sessions' -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"x-goog-api-key: $JULES_API_KEY\" -d '{\"prompt\": \"Add a test for parseQueryString in utils.js\", \"sourceContext\": {\"source\": \"sources/github/OWNER/REPO\", \"githubRepoContext\": {\"startingBranch\": \"main\"}}, \"requirePlanApproval\": true}'",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "jules": {
              "args": [
                "@google/jules-mcp"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "JULES_API_KEY": "\u003capi-key\u003e"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "headless": {
          "run": "jules remote new --repo . --session \"write unit tests\""
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/jules"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Google LLC",
        "domain": "jules.google",
        "domainRegistered": "2025-01-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://policies.google.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-05",
        "notes": [
          "The jules.google footer links the Google Terms of Service (effective 30 July 2026) and Privacy Policy. The terms bar automated access only where it ignores robots.txt, and jules.google answers robots.txt with a 404. The Jules privacy notice at jules.google.com/legal answered 'Jules is not yet available in your region' on 18 October and wasn't read.",
          "jules.google returns 404 for /.well-known/security.txt. www.google.com has a valid security.txt (expires 2030-04-01) pointing to g.co/vulnz and the Google VRP.",
          "The API answers at jules.googleapis.com, Google's API domain.",
          "No status page for Jules was found. The changelog of 29 October 2026 says Jules turns read-only after 11 November and winds down on 31 December 2026."
        ],
        "score": 67
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "jules",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "google-labs-code/jules-sdk",
            "version": "0.0.4",
            "released": "2026-02-03",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:36:06.708612278Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@google/jules",
            "version": "0.1.42",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:36:02.386342184Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@google/jules-mcp",
            "version": "0.2.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:36:04.582155979Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@google/jules-sdk",
            "version": "0.2.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:36:02.658855438Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 140,
        "npmWeekly": 2090,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://jules.google/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:45.078893576Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://jules.google/docs/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:32:48.094578786Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "jules.google",
          "registered": "2025-01-16",
          "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/jules.google",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:18:24.278305982Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/",
            "kind": "deprecations",
            "status": 304,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:11:49.410107672Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-10-30T05:41:50.628011713Z",
            "fingerprint": "e5e732f35aa5"
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        ],
        "github": {
          "repo": "google-labs-code/jules-sdk",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:51:46.472092041Z",
          "stars": 139,
          "archived": false,
          "issuesEnabled": true,
          "pushedAt": "2026-07-23T17:46:04Z",
          "openIssues": 5,
          "openPRs": 6,
          "issuesOpened90d": 0,
          "issuesClosed90d": 0,
          "prsMerged90d": 0,
          "replies": {
            "sampled": 25,
            "unanswered": 5,
            "medianDays": 0.4
          }
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:45.078893576Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Jules scores 45.1 (E) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Verdent leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "verdent",
      "name": "Verdent",
      "vendor": "Verdent AI, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Verdent is a coding agent from Verdent AI, Inc., with a desktop app for macOS and Windows, VS Code and JetBrains extensions and a browser edition. It plans tasks, runs parallel workers in git worktrees and uses MCP servers.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json",
      "dns": "verdent.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "license": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A person signs in to a Verdent account with Google, GitHub or email in a browser. Model use runs on Verdent credits through llm-proxy.verdent.ai, or on the user's own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter key (BYOK). BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI with keys kept on the machine. No API key or token for driving Verdent from another program was found.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "From $5 a month (Lite), then $19 Starter, $59 Pro and $179 Max with 320, 1,000 and 3,000 credits a month (doubled by a limited-time bonus). One credit is about $0.059 at provider rates. Top-ups $20 for 340 credits to $200 for 3,400. Free Mode and the free trial ended with v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026.",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, pricing page, terms or changelog (checked 2026-11-06). Subscriptions and top-ups go through Stripe.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-06"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.multi-agent",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "closed-source",
        "desktop",
        "vscode",
        "jetbrains",
        "mcp",
        "byok",
        "paid-plans",
        "no-sandbox"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-29",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 39.7,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1336,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1510,
        "categoryRank": 53,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 35,
          "maintenance": 61,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 43,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-06"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-11-06. The changelog says v2.18.0 of 29 October 2026 retired Free Mode, the free trial and the 100 welcome credits, while the pricing page FAQ read on 6 November still says \"Your free trial includes 100 credits\" and the 1.0 docs overview still lists a free trial. A stale claim on the vendor's own pricing page, 2 points. https://www.verdent.ai/pricing, https://www.verdent.ai/changelog"
        ],
        "verdict": "A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.",
        "strengths": [
          "Plan Mode is read-only and writes a plan.md for review before Agent Mode makes changes",
          "Parallel workers each run in their own git worktree, with a review column before work is accepted",
          "BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys",
          "Plan, top-up and per-credit prices are public, charged at provider token rates with no markup per the pricing page",
          "Every current docs page has a Markdown twin, and the changelog is dated by version"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot",
          "No sandbox or network restriction documented, and the actions that need approval aren't listed",
          "Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, while the pricing page FAQ still promises 100 trial credits",
          "Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods",
          "SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and there is no bug bounty or security.txt"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode",
          "Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode",
          "Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape",
          "Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox",
          "Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 39.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 35,
          "maintenance": 61,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 43,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 47
        },
        "provenanceScore": 62,
        "checked": {
          "categories": {
            "ergonomics": "2026-11-06",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-06",
            "payments": "2026-11-06",
            "reliability": "2026-11-06",
            "schema": "2026-11-06",
            "security": "2026-11-06",
            "transparency": "2026-11-06"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-06",
          "oldest": "2026-11-06",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "github": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/verdent"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Lite plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "Eco Mode models and light usage"
        },
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 19,
          "note": "320 credits a month, 480 with the limited-time bonus"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 59,
          "note": "1,000 credits a month, 1,500 with the bonus"
        },
        {
          "item": "Max plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 179,
          "note": "3,000 credits a month, 4,500 with the bonus"
        },
        {
          "item": "Credit",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.059,
          "note": "About $0.059, charged at provider token prices with no markup per the pricing page"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Verdent AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "verdent.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2025-05-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-06",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy names Verdent AI, Inc. as data controller, and the terms choose California law.",
          "The terms forbid users to crawl, scrape or otherwise harvest data or information from the Services. Public pages were read once each.",
          "www.verdent.ai/robots.txt allows all crawlers.",
          "RDAP gives verdent.ai a registration date of 6 May 2025.",
          "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.verdent.ai did not answer. No status page found.",
          "The security page says SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and takes vulnerability reports at hi@verdent.ai with acknowledgement within five business days."
        ],
        "score": 62
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "verdent",
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://verdent.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:28.662063151Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "bac05e4e426e"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:31.354667853Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "3ec1d3c07d70"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:33.295376926Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "206b6ec23a6a"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z"
      }
    },
    "edges": [
      {
        "by": 43,
        "category": "maintenance",
        "leads": "verdent",
        "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Closed service. The newest API or product change is the changelog entry of 9 March 2026, 241 days before 5 November (0). The changelog's 29 October 2026 entry announces the wind-down and an export route through the CLI, which is a notice, not an API change. No package releases, commits or tags in the 90 days, and the jules-sdk repository's last commit is 18 March 2026 (0). A public changelog and a Discord channel. The 18 October issue and pull request counts came from shields.io badges and are struck (8 of 15, a partial held). The official TypeScript SDK and MCP packages last published 0.2.0 on 9 March 2026, per the 18 October registry reading, and no official MCP registry entry could be read (5). The SDK has a CI workflow on pull requests whose results couldn't be read, and two runtime dependencies. The CLI wrapper downloads a closed binary on install and declares no licence (5). 0 + 0 + 8 + 5 + 5 = 18.",
          "b": "Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 18,
          "b": 61
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 30,
        "category": "reliability",
        "leads": "verdent",
        "name": "Reliability",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Hosted reading. No status page for Jules was found (0). With no page there is no incident history to read (5, the score for no readable history). The plans page, re-read on 5 November, publishes task quotas with numbers, 15, 100 and 300 tasks a rolling 24 hours and 3, 15 and 60 concurrent, and list `pageSize` is capped at 100, but no request rate figures were found (8 of 15). 429 is listed as a status and the auth page says a quota error may mean rate limits, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance, and session creation has no request ID (0). No SLA found (0). The API is v1alpha and labelled experimental, and the changelog of 29 October 2026 says Jules turns read-only after 11 November (0). 0 + 5 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 13.",
          "b": "Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 13,
          "b": 43
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 29,
        "category": "ergonomics",
        "leads": "jules",
        "name": "Agent ergonomics",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "API and MCP reading, per the 18 October check. Responses can be sized with `pageSize`, the standard `fields` parameter and a `create_time` filter that fetches only new activities. The MCP server has 8 tools, and `query_cache` takes a token budget (20). Token pagination on every list and filters on sessions, activities and sources (16). Google's error JSON with `status` and an ErrorInfo `reason`, plus a documented status table (14). No idempotency key on session creation and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations on the MCP tools, with `requirePlanApproval` as the only gate before work starts (4). Only `prompt` is required and a session without a source runs repoless. One official SDK, in TypeScript, plus the MCP server and CLI (10). 20 + 16 + 14 + 4 + 10 = 64.",
          "b": "Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 64,
          "b": 35
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 24,
        "category": "security",
        "leads": "jules",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Hosted reading. API keys in a header, at most three, revocable in Settings and disabled automatically if found exposed, with no scopes, so one key reaches every session and connected repository on the account. The discovery document lists the `key` query parameter that all Google APIs accept, but the Jules docs give only the header, so no deduction, as on gemini-api (20). Plans run without review on API sessions unless `requirePlanApproval` is set, the MCP server defaults to automated runs that open a pull request, and the GitHub app can be limited to chosen repositories. No read-only key (10). Each VM has internet access and the FAQ puts the burden on the user. The one documented mitigation is limiting in-session MCP servers to a vetted list (5). Activities log every plan, message, bash command and patch per session. No account audit log of key use found (8). www.google.com security.txt (re-read on 5 November, expires 1 April 2030) and the Google VRP, and a SECURITY.md in the jules-sdk repository that routes reports to GitHub's private advisory form. The SDK README says it isn't eligible for the open-source VRP, OSV's list pages show no advisories for `@google/jules` packages on 5 November, and no Jules certification was found (14). 20 + 10 + 5 + 8 + 14 = 57.",
          "b": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 57,
          "b": 33
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 21,
        "category": "schema",
        "leads": "jules",
        "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "API reading. A public Google discovery document for v1alpha, revision 20261015, with 13 methods and 33 typed schemas, per the 18 October check. It sits on the API's own host and wasn't requested again (25). docs/llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Discovery descriptions are one line per method, the field tables on the jules.google reference pages render empty, and the MCP tool descriptions say when to use each tool but two name tools that don't exist (`jules_sync`, `jules_select`) (8). Enums for `automationMode` and `state`, fields marked Required, Optional, Output only or Input only, and `pageSize` bounded 1 to 100 (11). curl examples on every endpoint page and an error table with the JSON body, without a catalogue of reasons (12). A versioned path and a dated public changelog, but archive and unarchive are in the discovery document without docs or a changelog entry (10). 25 + 10 + 8 + 11 + 12 + 10 = 76.",
          "b": "Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 76,
          "b": 55
        }
      },
      {
        "by": 10,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "jules",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Published rubric. No payment protocol (0). Plans and their Jules limits are public without a login, and Jules sits inside the Google AI plans. The prices render per locale and weren't read, and there's no per-task price (10). A free plan of 15 tasks a day with a Google account, and no card step in the sign-up docs, until new tasks stop after 11 November 2026 (20). A person signs in, accepts the privacy notice, installs the GitHub app and creates the key in the web app (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.",
          "b": "Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20."
        },
        "scores": {
          "a": 30,
          "b": 20
        }
      }
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      {
        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Google LLC",
        "b": "Verdent AI, Inc.",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP, stdio",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Paid",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed",
        "b": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "8",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-03-09",
        "b": "2026-10-29",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-07-30",
        "b": "2026-05-25",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-10-01",
        "b": "2026-05-26",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "2.8/5 (4)",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Agent reviews"
      }
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    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Jules scores 45.1 (E) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Verdent leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Jules or Verdent?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 55",
          "Agent ergonomics, 64 against 35",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 33",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Runs on your own machine"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Nobody starting new work, since Jules turns read-only after 11 November 2026 and ends on 31 December 2026.",
        "slug": "jules",
        "watchFor": "Jules turns read-only after 11 November 2026 and winds down on 31 December 2026, per the changelog of 29 October"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 43 against 13",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 61 against 18"
        ],
        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.",
        "slug": "verdent",
        "watchFor": "No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot"
      }
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          "date": "2026-11-05",
          "delta": 0.4,
          "from": 44.7,
          "fromGrade": "E",
          "to": 45.1,
          "toGrade": "E"
        },
        {
          "causes": [
            "method"
          ],
          "date": "2026-10-27",
          "delta": 0.2,
          "from": 44.5,
          "fromGrade": "E",
          "to": 44.7,
          "toGrade": "E"
        }
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  "markdown": "Jules scores 45.1 (E) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Verdent leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Jules: grade E, 45.1/100, rank #1203 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json\n- Verdent: grade E, 39.7/100, rank #1336 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Jules (E)\n\nGood for: Nobody starting new work, since Jules turns read-only after 11 November 2026 and ends on 31 December 2026.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 64 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 57 against 33\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Jules turns read-only after 11 November 2026 and winds down on 31 December 2026, per the changelog of 29 October\n\n### Verdent (E)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 43 against 13\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 61 against 18\n\nWatch for: No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Verdent +43\n\n- Jules (18): Closed service. The newest API or product change is the changelog entry of 9 March 2026, 241 days before 5 November (0). The changelog's 29 October 2026 entry announces the wind-down and an export route through the CLI, which is a notice, not an API change. No package releases, commits or tags in the 90 days, and the jules-sdk repository's last commit is 18 March 2026 (0). A public changelog and a Discord channel. The 18 October issue and pull request counts came from shields.io badges and are struck (8 of 15, a partial held). The official TypeScript SDK and MCP packages last published 0.2.0 on 9 March 2026, per the 18 October registry reading, and no official MCP registry entry could be read (5). The SDK has a CI workflow on pull requests whose results couldn't be read, and two runtime dependencies. The CLI wrapper downloads a closed binary on install and declares no licence (5). 0 + 0 + 8 + 5 + 5 = 18.\n- Verdent (61): Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61.\n\n### Reliability: Verdent +30\n\n- Jules (13): Hosted reading. No status page for Jules was found (0). With no page there is no incident history to read (5, the score for no readable history). The plans page, re-read on 5 November, publishes task quotas with numbers, 15, 100 and 300 tasks a rolling 24 hours and 3, 15 and 60 concurrent, and list `pageSize` is capped at 100, but no request rate figures were found (8 of 15). 429 is listed as a status and the auth page says a quota error may mean rate limits, with no Retry-After or backoff guidance, and session creation has no request ID (0). No SLA found (0). The API is v1alpha and labelled experimental, and the changelog of 29 October 2026 says Jules turns read-only after 11 November (0). 0 + 5 + 8 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 13.\n- Verdent (43): Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Jules +29\n\n- Jules (64): API and MCP reading, per the 18 October check. Responses can be sized with `pageSize`, the standard `fields` parameter and a `create_time` filter that fetches only new activities. The MCP server has 8 tools, and `query_cache` takes a token budget (20). Token pagination on every list and filters on sessions, activities and sources (16). Google's error JSON with `status` and an ErrorInfo `reason`, plus a documented status table (14). No idempotency key on session creation and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations on the MCP tools, with `requirePlanApproval` as the only gate before work starts (4). Only `prompt` is required and a session without a source runs repoless. One official SDK, in TypeScript, plus the MCP server and CLI (10). 20 + 16 + 14 + 4 + 10 = 64.\n- Verdent (35): Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Jules +24\n\n- Jules (57): Hosted reading. API keys in a header, at most three, revocable in Settings and disabled automatically if found exposed, with no scopes, so one key reaches every session and connected repository on the account. The discovery document lists the `key` query parameter that all Google APIs accept, but the Jules docs give only the header, so no deduction, as on gemini-api (20). Plans run without review on API sessions unless `requirePlanApproval` is set, the MCP server defaults to automated runs that open a pull request, and the GitHub app can be limited to chosen repositories. No read-only key (10). Each VM has internet access and the FAQ puts the burden on the user. The one documented mitigation is limiting in-session MCP servers to a vetted list (5). Activities log every plan, message, bash command and patch per session. No account audit log of key use found (8). www.google.com security.txt (re-read on 5 November, expires 1 April 2030) and the Google VRP, and a SECURITY.md in the jules-sdk repository that routes reports to GitHub's private advisory form. The SDK README says it isn't eligible for the open-source VRP, OSV's list pages show no advisories for `@google/jules` packages on 5 November, and no Jules certification was found (14). 20 + 10 + 5 + 8 + 14 = 57.\n- Verdent (33): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Jules +21\n\n- Jules (76): API reading. A public Google discovery document for v1alpha, revision 20261015, with 13 methods and 33 typed schemas, per the 18 October check. It sits on the API's own host and wasn't requested again (25). docs/llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every docs page (10). Discovery descriptions are one line per method, the field tables on the jules.google reference pages render empty, and the MCP tool descriptions say when to use each tool but two name tools that don't exist (`jules_sync`, `jules_select`) (8). Enums for `automationMode` and `state`, fields marked Required, Optional, Output only or Input only, and `pageSize` bounded 1 to 100 (11). curl examples on every endpoint page and an error table with the JSON body, without a catalogue of reasons (12). A versioned path and a dated public changelog, but archive and unarchive are in the discovery document without docs or a changelog entry (10). 25 + 10 + 8 + 11 + 12 + 10 = 76.\n- Verdent (55): Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Jules +10\n\n- Jules (30): Published rubric. No payment protocol (0). Plans and their Jules limits are public without a login, and Jules sits inside the Google AI plans. The prices render per locale and weren't read, and there's no per-task price (10). A free plan of 15 tasks a day with a Google account, and no card step in the sign-up docs, until new tasks stop after 11 November 2026 (20). A person signs in, accepts the privacy notice, installs the GitHub app and creates the key in the web app (0). 0 + 10 + 20 + 0 = 30.\n- Verdent (20): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Jules | Verdent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 13 | 43 | Verdent +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 55 | Jules +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 64 | 35 | Jules +29 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 33 | Jules +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | Jules +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 18 | 61 | Verdent +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 55 | Verdent +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **45.1 · E** | **39.7 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Jules | Verdent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Google LLC | Verdent AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed | Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published |\n| Tools exposed | 8 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-03-09 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-30 | 2026-05-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-26 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Jules\n\n- +0.4 on 5 November 2026: product\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n### Verdent\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Jules.** Google is winding Jules down. Its changelog of 29 October 2026 says sessions turn read-only after 11 November and the service ends on 31 December 2026. Until then the v1alpha API takes only a prompt to start a session and logs every plan, command and diff, with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key.\n\n**Verdent.** A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Jules\n\n1. Don't start new work on Jules. Sessions turn read-only after 11 November 2026 and the service ends on 31 December 2026\n2. Export settings, memories and session history with the Jules Tools CLI before 31 December 2026, following the changelog's 29 October entry\n3. Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review\n4. Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another\n5. Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written\n\n### Verdent\n\n1. Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode\n2. Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode\n3. Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape\n4. Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox\n5. Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Jules or Verdent?\n\nJules scores 45.1 (E) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Verdent leads on reliability and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-verdent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-verdent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"jules\", \"b\": \"verdent\"}`. 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