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The repository is github.com/getpaseo/paseo." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.json", "live": { "slug": "paseo", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://paseo.sh/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:35.732625089Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getpaseo/paseo/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:21:03.944050608Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c67e95fe9cd7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T16:00:35.732625089Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 43, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "paseo", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "2.4.6 on PyPI on 2026-07-23, 104 days before this check, and still the newest tag (10). No release in the 90 days to 4 November (0). Main hasn't moved since 3 September (three commits since 23 July, one from pre-commit-ci). Outside fixes were merged within days through July, but no pull request has been merged since #917 (17 August), 77 of the 85 pull requests numbered after it still carry open merge refs on the git remote, and maintainer reply times couldn't be read; the 18 October shields.io counts are struck (5). The Python library ships in the same package as the CLI and is current (10). Dependabot and pre-commit-ci run, and CI workflows exist with their current state unconfirmed (7).", "b": "v0.15.3 and commits on 7 November 2026 (30). More than three releases in 90 days (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Current builds (15). CI on push (10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 = 75." }, "scores": { "a": 32, "b": 75 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "reliability", "leads": "mini-swe-agent", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a local package, graded on 2.4.6, the release `pip install mini-swe-agent` installs, and still the newest tag on 4 November 2026. One official PyPI package with Python 3.10 or newer stated (20). A pytest workflow runs on every push to main with Podman, bubblewrap and Apptainer installed, 41 test files and Codecov coverage, but GitHub's pages refused this run, so whether main passes is unconfirmed (15). Issue counts and types couldn't be read (the 18 October counts came from shields.io, a third-party copy, and are struck). The git remote shows outside bug fixes merged through 22 July, such as #915, #896 and #886, and nothing merged into main since apart from a pre-commit update on 17 August, while 77 of the 85 pull requests numbered after #917 still carry open merge refs (10). Versions follow semver and v2's breaking changes came with a migration guide, but there's no changelog file and tags carry only a version bump (8). 2.4.6, past 1.0, though the PyPI classifier still says 3 - Alpha (12).", "b": "Local software. Desktop builds, an Android APK, a Docker image and a Nix package (20). ci.yml on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). CHANGELOG.md (15). Version 0.15.3 (0). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 50." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 50 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "transparency", "leads": "paseo", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "MIT (30). No privacy policy, terms or data-handling statement, though the tool runs locally and collects nothing we could find (8). A v2 migration guide marks the breaking changes, says how to pin `mini-swe-agent~=1.0`, and keeps v1 docs and a v1 branch, but there's no deprecation policy or end date for v1 (10). No telemetry in the source, but the docs don't say so (14).", "b": "Apache 2.0 for everything but third-party components (30). No telemetry and agents run on your machine (22 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). States no telemetry (20). 30 + 22 + 10 + 20 = 82." }, "scores": { "a": 56, "b": 68 } }, { "by": 7, "category": "schema", "leads": "paseo", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading. Typed pydantic config classes, typed protocols for agents, models and environments, `py.typed`, a mkdocstrings API reference and a documented trajectory format, but no machine-readable spec for configs or output (15). No llms.txt (/latest/llms.txt and /llms.txt returned 404). The docs are Markdown in the repository, readable raw, though they rely on build-time includes (3). The FAQ and environments page say when to pick mini over SWE-agent and which environment isolates, but the FAQ still says it doesn't use tool calls while the v2 guide says tool calls are now the default (12). Modes are a typed Literal and limits are typed fields, while `model_kwargs` passes free-form to LiteLLM (10). Hello-world and cookbook examples, a model troubleshooting page and a partial list of exit statuses (11). A dated v2 migration guide and kept v1 docs, with release notes only on GitHub, which we couldn't read (7).", "b": "Harness reading. 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"json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-paseo.json", "title": "OpenMausBot vs Paseo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-paseo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-paseo.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Paseo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-paseo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-paseo.json", "title": "Parallax vs Paseo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-paseo" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 15, "edge": "mini-swe-agent", "key": "reliability", "mini-swe-agent": 65, "name": "Reliability", "paseo": 50, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "paseo", "key": "schema", "mini-swe-agent": 58, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "paseo": 65, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "paseo", "key": "ergonomics", "mini-swe-agent": 69, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "paseo": 70, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "security", "mini-swe-agent": 58, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "paseo": 58, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "mini-swe-agent": 60, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "paseo": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 43, "edge": "paseo", "key": "maintenance", "mini-swe-agent": 32, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "paseo": 75, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "paseo", "key": "transparency", "mini-swe-agent": 56, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "paseo": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Paseo scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against mini-swe-agent's 59 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. mini-swe-agent leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "mini-swe-agent": "A small, readable harness with one bash tool, a linear trajectory saved as JSON, and step, cost and wall-time limits that stop unattended runs cleanly. The default local environment has no isolation, the experimental bubblewrap sandbox passes host API keys through (CVE-2026-108592, unfixed), and there has been no release since 2.4.6 on 23 July 2026.", "paseo": "A self-hosted, open-source workspace for running many coding agents on your own machines, scriptable from the CLI and reachable from phone, web or desktop, with no telemetry or forced log-in. It's pre-1.0 and run largely by one maintainer." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-paseo", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-paseo.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-paseo.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-paseo.min.md" }, "markdown": "Paseo scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against mini-swe-agent's 59 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. mini-swe-agent leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- mini-swe-agent: grade C, 59/100, rank #719 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/mini-swe-agent.json\n- Paseo: grade B, 62.1/100, rank #577 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paseo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paseo.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### mini-swe-agent (C)\n\nGood for: Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 65 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: The default local environment runs commands on the host with no isolation and the full host environment\n\n### Paseo (B)\n\nGood for: Developers who want parallel coding agents on their own machines with no telemetry, reachable from anywhere.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 65 against 58\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 32\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 56\n\nWatch for: Pre-1.0, at 0.15.3\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Paseo +43\n\n- mini-swe-agent (32): 2.4.6 on PyPI on 2026-07-23, 104 days before this check, and still the newest tag (10). No release in the 90 days to 4 November (0). Main hasn't moved since 3 September (three commits since 23 July, one from pre-commit-ci). Outside fixes were merged within days through July, but no pull request has been merged since #917 (17 August), 77 of the 85 pull requests numbered after it still carry open merge refs on the git remote, and maintainer reply times couldn't be read; the 18 October shields.io counts are struck (5). The Python library ships in the same package as the CLI and is current (10). Dependabot and pre-commit-ci run, and CI workflows exist with their current state unconfirmed (7).\n- Paseo (75): v0.15.3 and commits on 7 November 2026 (30). More than three releases in 90 days (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Current builds (15). CI on push (10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 = 75.\n\n### Reliability: mini-swe-agent +15\n\n- mini-swe-agent (65): Read as a local package, graded on 2.4.6, the release `pip install mini-swe-agent` installs, and still the newest tag on 4 November 2026. One official PyPI package with Python 3.10 or newer stated (20). A pytest workflow runs on every push to main with Podman, bubblewrap and Apptainer installed, 41 test files and Codecov coverage, but GitHub's pages refused this run, so whether main passes is unconfirmed (15). Issue counts and types couldn't be read (the 18 October counts came from shields.io, a third-party copy, and are struck). The git remote shows outside bug fixes merged through 22 July, such as #915, #896 and #886, and nothing merged into main since apart from a pre-commit update on 17 August, while 77 of the 85 pull requests numbered after #917 still carry open merge refs (10). Versions follow semver and v2's breaking changes came with a migration guide, but there's no changelog file and tags carry only a version bump (8). 2.4.6, past 1.0, though the PyPI classifier still says 3 - Alpha (12).\n- Paseo (50): Local software. Desktop builds, an Android APK, a Docker image and a Nix package (20). ci.yml on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). CHANGELOG.md (15). Version 0.15.3 (0). 20 + 15 + 0 + 15 + 0 = 50.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Paseo +12\n\n- mini-swe-agent (56): MIT (30). No privacy policy, terms or data-handling statement, though the tool runs locally and collects nothing we could find (8). A v2 migration guide marks the breaking changes, says how to pin `mini-swe-agent~=1.0`, and keeps v1 docs and a v1 branch, but there's no deprecation policy or end date for v1 (10). No telemetry in the source, but the docs don't say so (14).\n- Paseo (68): Apache 2.0 for everything but third-party components (30). No telemetry and agents run on your machine (22 of 30). CHANGELOG.md, no deprecation policy (10). States no telemetry (20). 30 + 22 + 10 + 20 = 82.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Paseo +7\n\n- mini-swe-agent (58): Framework reading. Typed pydantic config classes, typed protocols for agents, models and environments, `py.typed`, a mkdocstrings API reference and a documented trajectory format, but no machine-readable spec for configs or output (15). No llms.txt (/latest/llms.txt and /llms.txt returned 404). The docs are Markdown in the repository, readable raw, though they rely on build-time includes (3). The FAQ and environments page say when to pick mini over SWE-agent and which environment isolates, but the FAQ still says it doesn't use tool calls while the v2 guide says tool calls are now the default (12). Modes are a typed Literal and limits are typed fields, while `model_kwargs` passes free-form to LiteLLM (10). Hello-world and cookbook examples, a model troubleshooting page and a partial list of exit statuses (11). A dated v2 migration guide and kept v1 docs, with release notes only on GitHub, which we couldn't read (7).\n- Paseo (65): Harness reading. Public docs, a CLI and plugin examples in the repository (65).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | mini-swe-agent | Paseo | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 65 | 50 | mini-swe-agent +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 65 | Paseo +7 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 70 | Paseo +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 58 | 58 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 32 | 75 | Paseo +43 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 68 | Paseo +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59 · C** | **62.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | mini-swe-agent | Paseo |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) | Mohamed Boudra |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-07-23 | 2026-11-07 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Popularity | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### mini-swe-agent\n\n- +1.9 on 4 November 2026: new evidence, correction, time\n- +0.4 on 27 October 2026: new evidence\n\n### Paseo\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**mini-swe-agent.** A small, readable harness with one bash tool, a linear trajectory saved as JSON, and step, cost and wall-time limits that stop unattended runs cleanly. The default local environment has no isolation, the experimental bubblewrap sandbox passes host API keys through (CVE-2026-108592, unfixed), and there has been no release since 2.4.6 on 23 July 2026.\n\n**Paseo.** A self-hosted, open-source workspace for running many coding agents on your own machines, scriptable from the CLI and reachable from phone, web or desktop, with no telemetry or forced log-in. It's pre-1.0 and run largely by one maintainer.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### mini-swe-agent\n\n1. Run with `-y --exit-immediately` for unattended use. Without `--exit-immediately` it waits for input when the agent finishes\n2. Set `MSWEA_CONFIGURED=true` and `MSWEA_MODEL_NAME` first, or the first run stops at an interactive setup prompt\n3. Read `info.exit_status` in the `-o` trajectory file. A run that hits its limits still exits normally\n4. For untrusted repositories use `-c mini.yaml -c environment.environment_class=docker -c environment.image=\u003cimage\u003e`. The local and bubblewrap environments both expose host variables\n5. Strip model keys from the environment commands see, since the local environment passes every host variable to each command\n\n### Paseo\n\n1. Run the daemon on the machine that has your tools and credentials, and connect from the clients\n2. Script runs from the CLI for repeatable agent jobs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, mini-swe-agent or Paseo?\n\nPaseo scores 62.1 (B) on agent readiness against mini-swe-agent's 59 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. mini-swe-agent leads on reliability.\n\n### Are mini-swe-agent and Paseo open source?\n\nYes. mini-swe-agent is open source (MIT). 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