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

OpenDuet vs Town

OpenDuet and Town score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 49.5 (D) and 48.7 (D). Town leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238 TownTown.com, Inc. · Platform D48.7/100#981 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

  • Reliability, 42 against 35
  • Schema & documentation, 58 against 33
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 63

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

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

Town D

Best for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 79 against 59
  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 37

Watch for

The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOpenDuetTownEdge
Reliability16%204235OpenDuet +7
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25833OpenDuet +25
Agent ergonomics13%16.25249OpenDuet +3
Security & auth14%17.55979Town +20
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83760Town +23
Transparency & trust7%8.86863OpenDuet +5
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 49.5/100D 48.7/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenDuetTown
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)Town.com, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service AgreementClosed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnono
Last releasenone2026-10-10
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-07-21
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-272026-07-21
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes
Popularity1.6k starsnone

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.

Town

Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.

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.

Town

  1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
  2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
  3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
  4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.
  5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, OpenDuet or Town?

OpenDuet and Town score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 49.5 (D) and 48.7 (D). Town leads on security & auth and maintenance & community.

Are OpenDuet and Town 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 Town.

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Disclosure

Town 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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