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Head to head · Proactive personal assistants · October 2026 research run

Lindy vs Skydive

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

Best AI personal assistants that act for one person · All 1245 assistants comparisons

LindyCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) · Platform F32.5/100#1164 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

Lindy F

Best 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.

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

Watch 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.

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 24
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 32
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 43
  • Security & auth, 59 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 56 against 9
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 55

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLindySkydiveEdge
Reliability16%202441Skydive +17
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23281Skydive +49
Agent ergonomics13%16.24359Skydive +16
Security & auth14%17.54959Skydive +10
Payments & pricing10%12.53535even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8956Skydive +47
Transparency & trust7%8.85575Skydive +20
Negative events≤15-3-5
TotalF 32.5/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactLindySkydive
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)Create, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is publishedClosed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2025-10-212026-08-26
Terms last updated2026-09-24couldn't be read
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-28couldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textcouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accessyescouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingyescouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticeyescouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waiveryescouldn't be read
Popularitynone5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews1.8/5 (4)none

Verdicts

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.

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

Before you call either

Lindy

  1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.
  2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.
  3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.
  4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.
  5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe.

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Skydive?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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Disclosure

Skydive 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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