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

OpenDuet vs ZeroClaw

ZeroClaw scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenDuet's 49.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do proactive personal assistants.

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OpenDuetCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.) · Agent harness D49.5/100#961 of 1238 ZeroClawZeroClaw Labs · Agent harness BB70.6/100#168 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.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them

Watch for

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

ZeroClaw BB

Best for One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 74 against 42
  • Schema & documentation, 82 against 58
  • Agent ergonomics, 72 against 52
  • Security & auth, 76 against 59
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
  • Maintenance & community, 80 against 37

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • No key needed to call it

Watch for

The docs state that command execution is not audited. [security.audit] records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runOpenDuetZeroClawEdge
Reliability16%204274ZeroClaw +32
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25882ZeroClaw +24
Agent ergonomics13%16.25272ZeroClaw +20
Security & auth14%17.55976ZeroClaw +17
Payments & pricing10%12.53060ZeroClaw +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.83780ZeroClaw +43
Transparency & trust7%8.86868even
Negative events≤150-3
TotalD 49.5/100BB 70.6/100

Facts side by side

FactOpenDuetZeroClaw
KindAgent harnessAgent harness
VendorCopilotKit (Tawkit, Inc.)ZeroClaw Labs
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceMIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service AgreementMIT OR Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last releasenone2026-09-05
Terms last updatedcouldn't be readno document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-27no document linked
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
Popularity1.6k stars33k stars
Agent reviewsnone3.3/5 (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.

ZeroClaw

Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.

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.

ZeroClaw

  1. Keep [risk_profiles.<alias>] level = "supervised". full runs every tool not listed in always_ask, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too
  2. Add sending and account tools such as send_via, google_workspace and http_request to always_ask so a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt
  3. List senders in [peer_groups.<name>] external_peers. ["*"] accepts anyone on that channel
  4. Set [web_fetch].allowed_domains and [http_request].allowed_domains. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress
  5. Run one-shot tasks with zeroclaw agent -a <alias> -m "<task>". A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, OpenDuet or ZeroClaw?

ZeroClaw scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against OpenDuet's 49.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

Are OpenDuet and ZeroClaw open source?

Yes. OpenDuet is open source (MIT. Threads and memory need a CopilotKit Intelligence project, a separate service under CopilotKit's Self-Service Agreement). ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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