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

OpenDuet vs Poke

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238 PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.7/100#1138 of 1238

Which one, for what

OpenDuet D

Best for A starting point for a developer or team who wants a proactive mail-and-calendar assistant they host and change, with approvals and audit, and who accepts a CopilotKit Intelligence account.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 58 against 42
  • Agent ergonomics, 52 against 30
  • Security & auth, 59 against 24
  • Maintenance & community, 37 against 31
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 59

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • Open source

Watch for

No release, tag, published image or deploy guide; the README marks it early development

Poke F

Best for One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 51 against 42

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOpenDuetPokeEdge
Reliability16%204251Poke +9
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25842OpenDuet +16
Agent ergonomics13%16.25230OpenDuet +22
Security & auth14%17.55924OpenDuet +35
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83731OpenDuet +6
Transparency & trust7%8.86859OpenDuet +9
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 49.5/100F 37.7/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenDuetPoke
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)The Interaction Company of California Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service AgreementProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-06-25
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-03-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-272026-09-11
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readyes
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readyes
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes
Popularity1.6k starsnone
Agent reviewsnone1.8/5 (4)

Verdicts

OpenDuet

Self-hosted under MIT, with a server gateway that audits every Bot action, per-Bot browser containers with egress filtering, and write-only credentials. Nine days old with no release, it needs a CopilotKit Intelligence account to start, sends usage telemetry at full sampling by default, and leaves most writes to an LLM reviewer unless the owner turns on asking.

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

Before you call either

OpenDuet

  1. Follow the README's Quick start (bun install, bash scripts/start.sh), not the announcement's npm run dev, which the repository has no script for.
  2. Run bun openbot/scripts/setup-learning.ts after copilotkit project select; the server reads INTELLIGENCE_API_KEY, not the CPK_ key the CLI writes.
  3. Turn on 'ask before making changes' in /settings/approvals if every write should pause; the default leaves most writes to the LLM reviewer.
  4. To bring your own agent, register it as a remote-ag-ui Bot in agents.yaml; its tool calls still pass through the gateway's policy and audit.
  5. Set COPILOTKIT_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true or DO_NOT_TRACK=1 before starting if usage events must not reach CopilotKit.

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, OpenDuet or Poke?

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Poke's 37.7 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Poke leads on reliability.

Are OpenDuet and Poke open source?

OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement). No open-source release is listed for Poke.

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