# LearnHarness vs QwenPaw

> QwenPaw scores 62.4 (B) to LearnHarness's 59.3 (C) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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QwenPaw scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against LearnHarness's 59.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that remember you.

- 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
- QwenPaw: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #506 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
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## Which one, for what

### LearnHarness (C)

Good for: A tutor for one learner that keeps a local record of sessions and a graph of propositions and reasoning chains.

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card
- No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them

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

### QwenPaw (B)

Good for: One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 70 against 56
- Schema & documentation, 68 against 63
- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 60
- Security & auth, 60 against 52

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: Usage data is on by default, `qwenpaw init --defaults` accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | LearnHarness | QwenPaw | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 56 | 70 | QwenPaw +14 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 68 | QwenPaw +5 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 67 | QwenPaw +7 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 52 | 60 | QwenPaw +8 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 73 | QwenPaw +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 58 | LearnHarness +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **59.3 · C** | **62.4 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | LearnHarness | QwenPaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Amos Blomqvist | AgentScope |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-only | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-09-11 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 4.2k stars | 36k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (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.

**QwenPaw.** Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.

## 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

### QwenPaw

1. Set `QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true` before `qwenpaw init --defaults` or `qwenpaw app`. Both send usage data without asking
2. Set `approval_level` to `STRICT` or `SMART` in `agent.json`. The default `AUTO` runs every tool call no guard rule flags
3. Set `dm_policy` and `group_policy` to `allowlist` with `allow_from` on each channel. Both default to `open`
4. Set `QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true` before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then
5. Keep mail tools on `ask` for `send_message`, `delete_message` and `delete_thread`, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, LearnHarness or QwenPaw?

QwenPaw scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against LearnHarness's 59.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

### Are LearnHarness and QwenPaw open source?

Yes. LearnHarness is open source (AGPL-3.0-only). QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0).


## For agents

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