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

NanoClaw vs Skydive

NanoClaw scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on transparency & trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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

NanoClawNanoCo, Inc. · Agent harness B68.6/100#235 of 1244 SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244

Which one, for what

NanoClaw B

Best for A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine, reachable from chat apps, with container isolation and scheduled tasks, and who is willing to keep a fork.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 78 against 41
  • Agent ergonomics, 70 against 59
  • Security & auth, 74 against 59
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 78 against 56

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

The Claude provider runs with permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions', so shell, file and web tools run inside the container with no prompt

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

  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 69

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 runNanoClawSkydiveEdge
Reliability16%207841NanoClaw +37
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28281NanoClaw +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.27059NanoClaw +11
Security & auth14%17.57459NanoClaw +15
Payments & pricing10%12.56035NanoClaw +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87856NanoClaw +22
Transparency & trust7%8.86975Skydive +6
Negative events≤15-5-5
TotalB 68.6/100D 52.1/100

Facts side by side

FactNanoClawSkydive
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorNanoCo, Inc.Create, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.skydive.com/v1
TransportsHTTP
AuthNoneOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITClosed 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 release2026-10-092026-08-26
Terms last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity31k stars5.5k npm/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (4)none

Verdicts

NanoClaw

Each session runs in an unprivileged Docker container and API keys stay in a credential gateway on the host, so a manipulated agent cannot read them. Inside the container the agent runs with permission prompts off, network egress is open by default, and it can message any chat it is wired to without approval.

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

NanoClaw

  1. Install with git clone and bash nanoclaw.sh. There is no registry package, and setup needs Docker, Node 22 or later and a Claude or Codex credential
  2. Set NANOCLAW_EGRESS_LOCKDOWN=true before giving an agent credentials or an audience of strangers. The default leaves egress open
  3. Put chats with different audiences in separate agent groups. Every session of a group shares one read-write workspace and memory tree
  4. Turn on per-request approval for a secret in the gateway when its use should wait for a person. It is off unless configured
  5. On OneCLI installs, move the gateway to 1.42.0 by the upgrade guide before updating to 2026.10.0. The updater stops until that is done

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, NanoClaw or Skydive?

NanoClaw scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Skydive's 52.1 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Skydive leads on transparency & trust.

Are NanoClaw and Skydive open source?

NanoClaw is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Skydive.

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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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