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

LearnHarness vs Tab

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Tab's 10.6 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants that remember you.

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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 5
  • Schema & documentation, 63 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 60 against 0
  • Security & auth, 52 against 4
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 0
  • Maintenance & community, 71 against 58
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 44

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

Tab F

Best for A person who wants a texting assistant that browses, calls and buys with tight checkout controls.

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

Watch for

Private beta behind a waitlist.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLearnHarnessTabEdge
Reliability16%20565LearnHarness +51
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2630LearnHarness +63
Agent ergonomics13%16.2600LearnHarness +60
Security & auth14%17.5524LearnHarness +48
Payments & pricing10%12.5600LearnHarness +60
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87158LearnHarness +13
Transparency & trust7%8.86044LearnHarness +16
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 59.3/100F 10.6/100

Facts side by side

FactLearnHarnessTab
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAmos BlomqvistTerrasoft, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-onlyClosed service under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026).
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-29none
Terms last updatedno date given2026-09-02
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-02
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
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.

Tab

Tab is a private-beta texting assistant with a detailed security page on credential isolation and checkout binding, and a public updates page. No outside agent can call it, no price is published, and its privacy policy says nothing on training with user content.

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

Tab

  1. Don't plan to call Tab from another agent. It answers only the owner's Messages or WhatsApp thread.
  2. Tell the owner that access needs a waitlist place and no price is published.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, LearnHarness or Tab?

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Tab's 10.6 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are LearnHarness and Tab open source?

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

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Disclosure

Tab competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.

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