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      "slug": "lindy",
      "name": "Lindy",
      "vendor": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.lindy.ai",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "Lindy is a hosted AI assistant from Crivello Corp. Each user has a private assistant for mail, calendar and meetings, reached by Slack, iMessage, SMS, email or the web app, and a team shares a second one in Slack channels.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "oauth",
      "authNotes": "A person signs in with Google or Microsoft and connects mail and calendar from either, a phone number verified by code, and Slack through an app an owner or admin installs. Other tools connect by OAuth or an API key, and every action for a tool turns on at once with no scope choice in Lindy. A connection is personal until an owner or admin shares it with the workspace, after which everyone's Lindy works as that account. Saved API keys are write-only and can be rotated or revoked. No public API or key for outside callers was found in the docs.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "$29.99 per active user a month with 3,000 credits, pooled across the workspace, and larger monthly credit amounts up to 1,750,000 for $9,999.50. Top-ups are $10 per 1,000 credits and do not expire, while monthly credits do not roll over. New accounts get $50 of credit for seven days with no card. The pricing page gives 2 to 250 credits for an everyday request and 1,000 to 2,500 for a large build. The docs name Plus, Pro and Max plans priced only inside the app, which the pricing page does not list (checked 2026-10-12).",
      "priceSummary": "$29.99 / seat-mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, the terms or the docs (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.lindy.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.lindy.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "paid",
        "free-trial",
        "no-card",
        "slack",
        "imessage",
        "sms",
        "email",
        "chrome-extension",
        "mcp-client",
        "approvals",
        "llms-txt",
        "soc2",
        "team"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2025-10-21",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 32.3,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 968,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 986,
        "categoryRank": 16,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 43,
          "maintenance": 9,
          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 24,
          "schema": 32,
          "security": 49,
          "transparency": 52
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-12. The pricing page and the docs pricing page answer the question of whether Lindy does anything without approval with No, and say anything with outside impact waits for approval. The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only, that web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not guarded, and that an integration can be set to always allow writes (https://www.lindy.ai/pricing, https://docs.lindy.ai/pricing.md, https://docs.lindy.ai/integrations/overview.md). 3 points for a misleading claim."
        ],
        "verdict": "Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025.",
        "bestFor": "Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.",
        "strengths": [
          "Memory is a set of plain files in the web app, split into Personal, Team and System scopes, which the owner can read, edit and restore by version.",
          "Each integration has a setting that makes Lindy ask in Slack before writing, or stops it writing with that tool at all.",
          "Saved API keys are write-only. The docs say a value cannot be read back in the app, through the API or by asking Lindy, and keys can be rotated or revoked.",
          "The privacy policy of 28 September 2026 names its processors by category, among them Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Pipedream, WorkOS, Twilio and Recall.ai.",
          "Credit prices are public. A seat is $29.99 a month with 3,000 credits, top-ups are $10 per 1,000, and new accounts get $50 of credit with no card."
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered.",
          "The pricing page and the docs pricing page both answer that Lindy does nothing with outside impact without approval, which the integrations page contradicts.",
          "No status page, uptime record or SLA was found on the site or in the docs.",
          "The public changelog's newest entry is dated 21 October 2025, and it describes an agent builder the current docs no longer cover.",
          "Deleting a memory file keeps its earlier versions, and no way to purge them or a retention period was found. The privacy policy gives no period either.",
          "The terms of 24 September 2026 forbid automated use of the system and use for any commercial enterprise, in a product sold to companies. This matters before any probe is run."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.",
          "Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.",
          "Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.",
          "Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.",
          "Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "F",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 32.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 43,
          "maintenance": 9,
          "payments": 35,
          "reliability": 24,
          "schema": 32,
          "security": 49,
          "transparency": 36
        },
        "provenanceScore": 68
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/lindy"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Team seat",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 29.99,
          "note": "3,000 credits a month, pooled across the workspace. Every active user is billed"
        },
        {
          "item": "Top-up credit",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "$10 per 1,000 credits. Top-up credits do not expire, monthly credits do not roll over"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)",
        "domain": "lindy.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-05-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.lindy.ai/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.lindy.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://www.lindy.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms of Service, last updated 24 September 2026, name Crivello Corp, doing business as Lindy, registered in Oregon at 9450 SW Gemini Dr, Beaverton, OR 97008, and are governed by California law with binding arbitration.",
          "The terms cover the site and all related products and services. No separate service agreement or DPA was linked from the pages read.",
          "The privacy policy was last updated 28 September 2026.",
          "The web app and sign-in are at chat.lindy.ai.",
          "www.lindy.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No disclosure policy or bug bounty was found.",
          "No status page is linked from the site, the docs or the security page.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 2019-05-16 for lindy.ai, with NameCheap as registrar."
        ],
        "score": 68
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.json"
    },
    "answer": "nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "nanobot",
      "name": "nanobot",
      "vendor": "HKUDS",
      "vendorUrl": "https://nanobot.wiki",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "nanobot is an open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent written in Python by HKUDS. It runs as a gateway on the owner's machine and answers in a web UI, a terminal and chat apps, with tools, memory and scheduled automations.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nanobot.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "nanobot-ai"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account with the project. The owner supplies model provider keys or an OAuth sign-in, and bot tokens or mailbox passwords for each channel, in `~/.nanobot/config.json`. The WebUI on localhost needs no password, and binding to all interfaces requires a token.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy from the project. The owner pays the model provider, or nothing with a local model. The optional Render deployment needs a paid Render service.",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 49000,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://nanobot.wiki/docs/latest/getting-started/nanobot-overview",
      "llmsTxt": "https://nanobot.wiki/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.memory",
        "assistant.self-hosted",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "python",
        "mit",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker",
        "alpha"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 446,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 986,
        "categoryRank": 6,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 74,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 63,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -6,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-02. GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m (critical, 9.3, no CVE). Web fetch did not block internal addresses, so cloud metadata and internal services could be read without authentication in versions before 0.3.0. Fixed in 0.3.0 of 25 July and published, -2. https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/security/advisories/GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m",
          "2026-03-27. GHSA-4gmr-2vc8-7qh3 (CVE-2026-33654, high). A spoofed email could inject instructions through email polling with no user action, up to command execution, in 0.1.4.post5 and earlier. Fixed in 0.1.4.post6 and published, more than six months ago, -2. https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/security/advisories/GHSA-4gmr-2vc8-7qh3",
          "2026-03-11. GHSA-g6cf-xjwr-pm77 (CVE-2026-31977, critical, 9.0). A sender ID containing `|` passed the `allowFrom` check in versions before 0.1.4.post4. Fixed and published, more than six months ago, -1. https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/security/advisories/GHSA-g6cf-xjwr-pm77",
          "2026-04-14 and 2026-05-24. GHSA-v5j3-4q66-58cf (CVE-2026-35589, high, 8.0), cross-site WebSocket hijacking of the WhatsApp bridge, fixed in 0.1.5, and GHSA-3f63-vcp3-hvqr (CVE-2026-48716, high, 8.7), file write through a WhatsApp document name. Both fixed and published, -1 together. https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/security/advisories"
        ],
        "verdict": "nanobot runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, with no telemetry found in its source and memory kept as files the owner can read and restore. No per-action approval step was found, and the shell sandbox and workspace restriction are off by default. Five security advisories were published between March and September 2026, all with fixes.",
        "bestFor": "A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT licence, runs on the owner's machine, and no telemetry code was found in the source at v0.3.5",
          "Long-term memory is plain files (`USER.md`, `SOUL.md`, `memory/MEMORY.md`) versioned with Git, with `/dream-log` and `/dream-restore` to inspect and roll back",
          "Chat channels deny unknown senders by default since v0.1.4.post4, with pairing codes the owner approves",
          "Email requires SPF and DKIM results from a named receiving service since v0.3.5, and mailbox access stays off until `consentGranted` is set",
          "Optional `bwrap` (Linux) and `seatbelt` (macOS) sandboxes for shell commands, and an SSRF guard on web fetches and HTTP MCP connections"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking",
          "`tools.restrictToWorkspace` defaults to false and `tools.exec.sandbox` to empty. Neither sandbox restricts network access, and Windows has none",
          "Five advisories published from 11 March to 2 September 2026, two rated critical, among them an allowlist bypass and unauthenticated SSRF in web fetch",
          "SECURITY.md lists plain-text API keys in `config.json`, no rate limiting and limited security event logging as known limitations",
          "Version 0.3.5 with an Alpha classifier, 214 open issues and 614 open pull requests on 12 October 2026"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `tools.restrictToWorkspace` to true and `tools.exec.sandbox` to `bwrap` or `seatbelt` before giving it real accounts. Both are off by default",
          "Run 0.3.0 or later. Earlier versions carry the published SSRF flaw in web fetch (GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m)",
          "Keep `allowFrom` narrow on every channel and never set `[\"*\"]` on Email, which has no pairing",
          "Write secrets as `${VAR}` references in `~/.nanobot/config.json`. Plain values are stored in clear text",
          "Use `nanobot -m \"...\"` for a one-shot run, and keep `nanobot gateway` running for channels, schedules and heartbeat"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.4
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 74,
          "maintenance": 82,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 77,
          "security": 63,
          "transparency": 69
        },
        "provenanceScore": 27
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "python -m pip install nanobot-ai   # or: uv tool install nanobot-ai   # then: nanobot webui",
        "headless": {
          "command": "nanobot -m \"$TASK\""
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/nanobot"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "",
        "domain": "nanobot.wiki",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "No legal entity is named. The repository belongs to the GitHub organisation HKUDS, which a published advisory title calls the Hong Kong University Data Intelligence Lab. pyproject.toml names Xubin Ren and the nanobot contributors as authors.",
          "nanobot.wiki has no terms or privacy page linked from its home page or llms.txt, and `/.well-known/security.txt` answered with the site's not-found page on 12 October 2026.",
          "SECURITY.md in the repository asks for reports through a private GitHub advisory or by email and aims to respond within 48 hours.",
          "There is no hosted endpoint. A gateway answers on its owner's own host."
        ],
        "score": 27
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot.json"
    },
    "facts": [
      {
        "a": "Platform",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)",
        "b": "HKUDS",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth",
        "b": "None",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Paid",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published",
        "b": "MIT",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
      },
      {
        "a": "2025-10-21",
        "b": "2026-09-15",
        "name": "Last release"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-24",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "2026-09-28",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "49k stars",
        "name": "Popularity"
      }
    ],
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or nanobot?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Lindy. nanobot is open source (MIT).",
        "question": "Are Lindy and nanobot open source?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": null,
        "also": [
          "Free to start without a card"
        ],
        "goodFor": "Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.",
        "slug": "lindy",
        "watchFor": "The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered."
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 70 against 24",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 77 against 32",
          "Agent ergonomics, 74 against 43",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 49",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 9"
        ],
        "also": [
          "No key needed to call it",
          "Open source"
        ],
        "goodFor": "A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model.",
        "slug": "nanobot",
        "watchFor": "No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking"
      }
    ],
    "job": {
      "capability": "assistant.proactive",
      "name": "Assistant proactive"
    },
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy.json",
        "title": "AstrBot vs Lindy",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy"
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-nanobot.json",
        "title": "AstrBot vs nanobot",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-nanobot"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.json",
        "title": "CowAgent vs Lindy",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanobot.json",
        "title": "CowAgent vs nanobot",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-nanobot"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.json",
        "title": "GAIA vs Lindy",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-nanobot.json",
        "title": "GAIA vs nanobot",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-nanobot"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy.json",
        "title": "Gemini Spark vs Lindy",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-nanobot.json",
        "title": "Gemini Spark vs nanobot",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-nanobot"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.json",
        "title": "Grok Bot vs Lindy",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot.json",
        "title": "Grok Bot vs nanobot",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-nanobot"
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  "markdown": "nanobot scores 62.4 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #968 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json\n- nanobot: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #446 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nanobot.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Lindy (F)\n\nGood for: Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered.\n\n### nanobot (B)\n\nGood for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with file-based memory and a free choice of model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 24\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 77 against 32\n- Agent ergonomics, 74 against 43\n- Security \u0026 auth, 63 against 49\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 9\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No per-action approval was found in the docs or source. The agent sends messages, runs shell commands and edits files without asking\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Lindy | nanobot | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 70 | nanobot +46 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 77 | nanobot +45 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 74 | nanobot +31 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 63 | nanobot +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | nanobot +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 9 | 82 | nanobot +73 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 48 | Lindy +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **62.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lindy | nanobot |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | HKUDS |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | OAuth | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-09-15 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |\n| Popularity | none | 49k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Lindy.** Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025.\n\n**nanobot.** nanobot runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, with no telemetry found in its source and memory kept as files the owner can read and restore. No per-action approval step was found, and the shell sandbox and workspace restriction are off by default. Five security advisories were published between March and September 2026, all with fixes.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Lindy\n\n1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.\n2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.\n3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.\n4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.\n5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe.\n\n### nanobot\n\n1. Set `tools.restrictToWorkspace` to true and `tools.exec.sandbox` to `bwrap` or `seatbelt` before giving it real accounts. Both are off by default\n2. Run 0.3.0 or later. Earlier versions carry the published SSRF flaw in web fetch (GHSA-vc5v-6vwm-wf9m)\n3. Keep `allowFrom` narrow on every channel and never set `[\"*\"]` on Email, which has no pairing\n4. Write secrets as `${VAR}` references in `~/.nanobot/config.json`. Plain values are stored in clear text\n5. 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