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

LearnHarness vs Wajo (Fo)

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. 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 30
  • Security & auth, 52 against 38
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 71 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 60 against 47

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

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 63
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 60

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLearnHarnessWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%205630LearnHarness +26
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26374Wajo (Fo) +11
Agent ergonomics13%16.26068Wajo (Fo) +8
Security & auth14%17.55238LearnHarness +14
Payments & pricing10%12.56030LearnHarness +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8713LearnHarness +68
Transparency & trust7%8.86047LearnHarness +13
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 59.3/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactLearnHarnessWajo (Fo)
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAmos BlomqvistWajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-onlyClosed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-29none
Terms last updatedno date given2026-10-23
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-10-23
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
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 reviewsnone2.8/5 (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.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

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

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, LearnHarness or Wajo (Fo)?

LearnHarness scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics.

Are LearnHarness and Wajo (Fo) open source?

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

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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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