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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

LearnHarness vs OpenDuet

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against OpenDuet's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. OpenDuet leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do assistants that remember you.

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LearnHarnessAmos Blomqvist · Agent harness C59.3/100#647 of 1238 OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238

Which one, for what

LearnHarness C

Best 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 42
  • Schema & documentation, 63 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 60 against 52
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 71 against 37

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it

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

OpenDuet D

Best for A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 59 against 52
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 60

Watch for

No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLearnHarnessOpenDuetEdge
Reliability16%205642LearnHarness +14
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26358LearnHarness +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.26052LearnHarness +8
Security & auth14%17.55259OpenDuet +7
Payments & pricing10%12.56030LearnHarness +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87137LearnHarness +34
Transparency & trust7%8.86068OpenDuet +8
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 59.3/100D 49.5/100

Facts side by side

FactLearnHarnessOpenDuet
KindAgent harnessAgent harness
VendorAmos BlomqvistCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-onlyMIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-29none
Terms last updatedno date givencouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-08-27
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textcouldn'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
Popularity4.2k stars1.6k stars

Verdicts

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.

OpenDuet

Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking.

Before you call either

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

OpenDuet

  1. Follow the README's Quick start (bun install, bash scripts/start.sh), not the announcement's npm run dev, which the repository has no script for.
  2. Run bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts after copilotkit project select; the server reads INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY, not the CPK_ key the CLI writes.
  3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in /settings/approvals if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer.
  4. To bring your own agent, register it as a remote-ag-ui Bot in agents.yaml; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit.
  5. Set COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, LearnHarness or OpenDuet?

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against OpenDuet's 49.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. OpenDuet leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are LearnHarness and OpenDuet open source?

Yes. LearnHarness is open source (AGPL-3.0-only). OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement).

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