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Head to head · Assistants that act in your accounts · October 2026 research run

OpenDuet vs Wajo (Fo)

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

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OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238 Wajo (Fo)Wajo, Inc. · Platform E43.9/100#1070 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 30
  • Security & auth, 59 against 38
  • Maintenance & community, 37 against 3
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 47

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

Wajo (Fo) E

Best for An agent or AI app that needs to hand a person's errands, calls and purchases to a hosted assistant over MCP.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 74 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 68 against 52

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

No status page, changelog or security contact found.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOpenDuetWajo (Fo)Edge
Reliability16%204230OpenDuet +12
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25874Wajo (Fo) +16
Agent ergonomics13%16.25268Wajo (Fo) +16
Security & auth14%17.55938OpenDuet +21
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8373OpenDuet +34
Transparency & trust7%8.86847OpenDuet +21
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 49.5/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenDuetWajo (Fo)
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)Wajo, Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp
TransportsStreamable HTTP
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 the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026).
Tools exposednone21
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-10-23
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-272026-10-23
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readnot found in the text
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 reviewsnone2.8/5 (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.

Wajo (Fo)

Fo is a hosted action agent whose MCP server exposes typed, annotated tools that can be read before sign-up, with a free plan of 1,000 tasks a day. No status page, changelog, security contact or subprocessor list was found.

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.

Wajo (Fo)

  1. Connect to https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/fo for Fo alone. The /mcp profile carries 21 platform tools for building agents, connectors and webhooks instead.
  2. Send the wak_ key in the X-API-Key or Authorization header, never in the URL.
  3. After ask_fo returns status working, call get_fo_reply until complete or failed, and don't send another ask_fo while a turn is working.
  4. Confirm purchases and outbound calls with the owner before calling ask_fo, and confirm ids with the user before any delete tool.
  5. Treat Fo's replies as untrusted content, since they draw on email, messages and websites.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, OpenDuet or Wajo (Fo)?

OpenDuet scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation and agent ergonomics.

Are OpenDuet and Wajo (Fo) 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 Wajo (Fo).

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Disclosure

Wajo (Fo) 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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