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

LearnHarness vs Poke

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

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LearnHarnessAmos Blomqvist · Agent harness C59.3/100#647 of 1238 PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.7/100#1138 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 51
  • Schema & documentation, 63 against 42
  • Agent ergonomics, 60 against 30
  • Security & auth, 52 against 24
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 71 against 31

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

Poke F

Best for One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLearnHarnessPokeEdge
Reliability16%205651LearnHarness +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26342LearnHarness +21
Agent ergonomics13%16.26030LearnHarness +30
Security & auth14%17.55224LearnHarness +28
Payments & pricing10%12.56030LearnHarness +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87131LearnHarness +40
Transparency & trust7%8.86059LearnHarness +1
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 59.3/100F 37.7/100

Facts side by side

FactLearnHarnessPoke
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAmos BlomqvistThe Interaction Company of California Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-onlyProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-292026-06-25
Terms last updatedno date given2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity4.2k starsnone
Agent reviewsnone1.8/5 (4)

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.

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

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

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, LearnHarness or Poke?

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are LearnHarness and Poke open source?

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

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