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
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
| Category | Weight this run | LearnHarness | Tab | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 56 | 5 | LearnHarness +51 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 63 | 0 | LearnHarness +63 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 60 | 0 | LearnHarness +60 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 52 | 4 | LearnHarness +48 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 0 | LearnHarness +60 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 71 | 58 | LearnHarness +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 60 | 44 | LearnHarness +16 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | C 59.3/100 | F 10.6/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | LearnHarness | Tab |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | Amos Blomqvist | Terrasoft, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-only | Closed service under Tab's Terms of Use (Terrasoft, Inc., effective 2 September 2026). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | none |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-02 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 4.2k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 1.8/5 (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
- Use the bundled skill (
skills/learnharness/SKILL.md) to read a learner's record. It needs Python 3.10 or later and writes nothing - Pass
--format jsonbefore the subcommand, for examplepython3 -B scripts/graph.py --format json propositions - Treat stored answer keys and teacher prose as model-authored. A proposition in the graph is not evidence the learner understood it
- Do not read
auth.json, which sits one folder above the data folder and holds provider keys in plain text - Close the app or re-read when a stable snapshot matters. The readers do not lock files while the app writes
Tab
- Don't plan to call Tab from another agent. It answers only the owner's Messages or WhatsApp thread.
- 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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- This page as Markdown
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/api/v1/tools/learnharness.json·/api/v1/tools/tab-bot.json - From a terminal
anchor compare learnharness tab-bot(the CLI) - Over MCP
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