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      "slug": "openmausbot",
      "name": "OpenMausBot",
      "vendor": "Supamaus Software Private Limited",
      "vendorUrl": "https://mausbot.com",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "OpenMausBot, now branded MausBot, is an open-source desktop app that runs Claude Code, Codex and other agent CLIs as a team of chat bots with their own computers. Other agents drive it through a stdio MCP server and CLI.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openmausbot.json",
      "dns": "openmausbot.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "repo": "https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "stdio"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "openmausbot"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "No account for the free app. The harness binds to 127.0.0.1. In packaged builds, read-only MCP tools work on loopback without a token, while tools that create, send, switch, interrupt or run need a paired session token (`omb_sess_...`) from a single-use pairing code in Settings \u003e Phone, passed as `OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN` and revocable there. Agent CLIs use the owner's own logins or API keys. Cloud plans need a MausBot account.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "The app is free under Apache 2.0, with model usage billed by the owner's own provider. MausBot Cloud, an always-on hosted workspace, is $15, $49 or $99 a month (Starter, Pro, Max) with 100, 300 or 800 cloud computer-hours. Team is $169 a month for up to 5 people ($135 billed yearly), Business $599 a month for up to 20 ($479 billed yearly), and Business self-hosted $299 a month billed yearly, with extra people at $25 and $10 a month. Team is bought online; Business plans start with a call, and above 20 people pricing is per person. Extra computer-hours are $0.05 each. Prices from https://mausbot.com/pricing, read on 2 November 2026.",
      "priceSummary": "$15 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the MCP and CLI docs, the pricing page or the file tree of the repository (checked 2026-10-30). Cloud plans are paid by monthly subscription.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 20,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 8181,
        "npmWeekly": 3518,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/blob/main/docs/mcp-server.md",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.multi-agent",
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.mcp-client",
        "desktop.control"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "apache-2.0",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "stdio",
        "cli",
        "typescript",
        "desktop-app",
        "macos",
        "windows",
        "linux",
        "docker"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-11-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 65.4,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 424,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1510,
        "categoryRank": 11,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 77,
          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 50,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 59
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-11-02"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-10-18. The privacy policy (last updated 18 October 2026, still the current version on 2 November) says the desktop and companion apps contain no third-party analytics SDKs, while the app's source loads posthog-js and sends events to us.i.posthog.com unless the owner switches analytics off, as docs/analytics.md describes. Disclosed in the README and docs, so a misleading claim rather than undisclosed telemetry, -2. https://mausbot.com/privacy, https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/blob/main/src/lib/analytics.ts"
        ],
        "verdict": "A bounded 20-tool MCP server with typed schemas, annotations and idempotent sends, and a headless CLI with JSON output and exit codes, let another agent hand work to a bot team and wait on it. New bots start at Full access, so provider permission requests pass without a card, and usage analytics stay on until switched off.",
        "bestFor": "A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI.",
        "strengths": [
          "20 MCP tools with typed inputs, `additionalProperties: false`, limits and readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and idempotentHint on every tool",
          "`wait_for_conversation` holds until the job changes and returns settled, needs-user, failed, stalled or timed-out with the job tree",
          "`send_id` makes a repeated send return the first receipt instead of posting twice",
          "The `openmausbot` CLI prints one JSON document with `--json` and uses documented exit codes, 3 for a pending approval and 4 for a timeout",
          "128 desktop releases between 11 August and 30 October 2026, published to npm by GitHub Actions trusted publishing with provenance"
        ],
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          "New bots start at Full access, which approves provider permission requests without a card",
          "Usage analytics to PostHog are on by default, while the privacy policy says the apps carry no third-party analytics SDKs",
          "Pre-1.0 (0.1.134), with new capabilities shipped in patch versions and no breaking-change section in release notes",
          "The MCP server answers only while the desktop app or `openmausbot serve` is running, and mutating tools need a paired token",
          "Not in the official MCP registry. The Windows installer is not code-signed"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Ask the owner for a pairing code from Settings \u003e Phone, exchange it at `POST /api/auth/pair`, and set `OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN` with an explicit `OMB_PORT`",
          "Pass a `send_id` with every `send_bot_message` and `send_channel_message`, so a retry returns the first receipt",
          "Use `wait_for_conversation` instead of polling, and on `needs-user` stop and tell the owner a card is waiting",
          "Check a bot's access level with the owner before sending work. New bots run at Full access unless defaults were changed",
          "Ask the owner to switch off Settings \u003e General \u003e Usage analytics if nothing beyond model calls should leave the machine"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.7",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 65.4
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 74,
          "payments": 50,
          "reliability": 60,
          "schema": 90,
          "security": 59,
          "transparency": 57
        },
        "provenanceScore": 61,
        "checked": {
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            "ergonomics": "2026-11-02",
            "maintenance": "2026-11-02",
            "payments": "2026-11-02",
            "reliability": "2026-11-02",
            "schema": "2026-11-02",
            "security": "2026-11-02",
            "transparency": "2026-11-02"
          },
          "last": "2026-11-02",
          "oldest": "2026-11-02",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
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      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install -g openmausbot   # Node.js 24 or newer, or download the desktop app from https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/releases/latest",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "openmausbot": {
              "args": [
                "mcp"
              ],
              "command": "openmausbot",
              "env": {
                "OMB_PORT": "8799"
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "headless": {
          "command": "openmausbot run \"Room Lead\" \"$TASK\" --json --export ./out",
          "env": {
            "OMB_PORT": "8799"
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/openmausbot"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "MausBot Cloud Starter (100 computer-hours)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 15,
          "note": "Model usage billed by the owner's provider"
        },
        {
          "item": "MausBot Cloud Pro (300 computer-hours, $10 Claude credit)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "Model usage beyond the credit billed by the owner's provider"
        },
        {
          "item": "MausBot Cloud Max (800 computer-hours, $20 Claude credit)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "Model usage beyond the credit billed by the owner's provider"
        },
        {
          "item": "MausBot Team (up to 5 people)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 169,
          "note": "$135 a month billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "MausBot Business (up to 20 people)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 599,
          "note": "$479 a month billed yearly"
        },
        {
          "item": "MausBot Business self-hosted (up to 20 people)",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 299,
          "note": "Billed yearly"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Supamaus Software Private Limited",
        "domain": "mausbot.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2026-09-30",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://mausbot.com/terms",
        "privacy": "https://mausbot.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-30",
        "notes": [
          "The terms name Supamaus Software Private Limited, a company incorporated in India, with the laws of India and the courts at Pune. The contact page gives CIN U62011PN2026PTC259029 and names Milind Soni, Director, as grievance officer.",
          "The licence file and the enterprise licence read Copyright 2026 Milind Soni. LICENSING.md says the OpenMausBot and MausBot names and the mascot are trademarks of Supamaus Software Private Limited.",
          "RDAP at Verisign gives 2026-08-12 for openmausbot.com and 2026-09-30 for mausbot.com. The GitHub repository was created on 11 August 2026.",
          "www.openmausbot.com and docs.openmausbot.com disallow our crawler in robots.txt (ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai on www, every user agent on docs), so neither was read. mausbot.com allows all and was read. The docs site's source is in the repository under apps/docs and was read there.",
          "mausbot.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 30 October 2026. SECURITY.md in the repository gives an email and GitHub private vulnerability reporting.",
          "The software runs on the owner's machine, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check for the listed surface. MausBot Cloud is a hosted option with no status page found."
        ],
        "score": 61
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openmausbot.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "openmausbot",
        "versions": [
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            "registry": "github",
            "name": "milind-soni/OpenMausBot",
            "version": "v0.1.145",
            "released": "2026-11-06",
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "openmausbot",
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        "npmWeekly": 5097,
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          "url": "https://mausbot.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:48.748489803Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "mausbot.com",
          "registered": "2026-09-30",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/mausbot.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:24:15.591415932Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://mausbot.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:14:00.77222467Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-11-07T14:14:00.77222467Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://mausbot.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:14:03.007687853Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-11-07T14:14:03.007687853Z",
            "fingerprint": "138c87f37f10"
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          {
            "url": "https://mausbot.com/terms",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:14:05.005599869Z",
            "changedAt": "2026-11-07T14:14:05.005599869Z",
            "fingerprint": "273786f4c812"
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        ],
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          "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:22:23.466686286Z",
          "stars": 10884,
          "archived": false,
          "issuesEnabled": true,
          "pushedAt": "2026-11-02T08:05:10Z",
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          "openPRs": 250,
          "issuesOpened90d": 800,
          "issuesClosed90d": 401,
          "prsMerged90d": 2568,
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            "runs": 50,
            "success": 26,
            "failure": 12,
            "other": 12,
            "latest": "success",
            "latestAt": "2026-11-02T08:13:15Z"
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      }
    },
    "answer": "OpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.",
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      "slug": "verdent",
      "name": "Verdent",
      "vendor": "Verdent AI, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Verdent is a coding agent from Verdent AI, Inc., with a desktop app for macOS and Windows, VS Code and JetBrains extensions and a browser edition. It plans tasks, runs parallel workers in git worktrees and uses MCP servers.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json",
      "dns": "verdent.grade.anchorterminal.com",
      "license": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "A person signs in to a Verdent account with Google, GitHub or email in a browser. Model use runs on Verdent credits through llm-proxy.verdent.ai, or on the user's own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter key (BYOK). BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI with keys kept on the machine. No API key or token for driving Verdent from another program was found.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "From $5 a month (Lite), then $19 Starter, $59 Pro and $179 Max with 320, 1,000 and 3,000 credits a month (doubled by a limited-time bonus). One credit is about $0.059 at provider rates. Top-ups $20 for 340 credits to $200 for 3,400. Free Mode and the free trial ended with v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026.",
      "priceSummary": "$5 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, pricing page, terms or changelog (checked 2026-11-06). Subscriptions and top-ups go through Stripe.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-11-06"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview",
      "capabilities": [
        "agent.harness",
        "agent.multi-agent",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "official",
        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "closed-source",
        "desktop",
        "vscode",
        "jetbrains",
        "mcp",
        "byok",
        "paid-plans",
        "no-sandbox"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-29",
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 39.7,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 1336,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1510,
        "categoryRank": 53,
        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 61,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 43,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 55
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        "pending": [
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          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
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          "date": "2026-11-06"
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        "negative": -2,
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          "2026-11-06. The changelog says v2.18.0 of 29 October 2026 retired Free Mode, the free trial and the 100 welcome credits, while the pricing page FAQ read on 6 November still says \"Your free trial includes 100 credits\" and the 1.0 docs overview still lists a free trial. A stale claim on the vendor's own pricing page, 2 points. https://www.verdent.ai/pricing, https://www.verdent.ai/changelog"
        ],
        "verdict": "A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.",
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          "Parallel workers each run in their own git worktree, with a review column before work is accepted",
          "BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys",
          "Plan, top-up and per-credit prices are public, charged at provider token rates with no markup per the pricing page",
          "Every current docs page has a Markdown twin, and the changelog is dated by version"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
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          "No sandbox or network restriction documented, and the actions that need approval aren't listed",
          "Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, while the pricing page FAQ still promises 100 trial credits",
          "Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods",
          "SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and there is no bug bounty or security.txt"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode",
          "Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode",
          "Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape",
          "Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox",
          "Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.7",
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 61,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 43,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 33,
          "transparency": 47
        },
        "provenanceScore": 62,
        "checked": {
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            "maintenance": "2026-11-06",
            "payments": "2026-11-06",
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            "schema": "2026-11-06",
            "security": "2026-11-06",
            "transparency": "2026-11-06"
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          "oldest": "2026-11-06",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
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          "mcpServers": {
            "github": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/verdent"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Lite plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "Eco Mode models and light usage"
        },
        {
          "item": "Starter plan",
          "unit": "month",
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          "note": "320 credits a month, 480 with the limited-time bonus"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
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          "note": "1,000 credits a month, 1,500 with the bonus"
        },
        {
          "item": "Max plan",
          "unit": "month",
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          "note": "3,000 credits a month, 4,500 with the bonus"
        },
        {
          "item": "Credit",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.059,
          "note": "About $0.059, charged at provider token prices with no markup per the pricing page"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Verdent AI, Inc.",
        "domain": "verdent.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2025-05-06",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-11-06",
        "notes": [
          "The privacy policy names Verdent AI, Inc. as data controller, and the terms choose California law.",
          "The terms forbid users to crawl, scrape or otherwise harvest data or information from the Services. Public pages were read once each.",
          "www.verdent.ai/robots.txt allows all crawlers.",
          "RDAP gives verdent.ai a registration date of 6 May 2025.",
          "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.verdent.ai did not answer. No status page found.",
          "The security page says SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and takes vulnerability reports at hi@verdent.ai with acknowledgement within five business days."
        ],
        "score": 62
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "verdent",
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://verdent.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:28.662063151Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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            "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy",
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          "a": "20 tools, inside the 11 to 30 band, with annotations that separate reads from writes but no toolsets or read-only mode to load. Transcript reads are bounded and never return screenshot pixels (17). `limit` up to 200 messages, search capped at 100 hits, `task_id` and `scope` filters, and `since_ms` and `after_version` to keep watching a job (17). `wait_for_conversation` reports settled, needs-user, failed, stalled or timed-out with a redacted transcript tail, and the CLI's exit codes separate a pending approval from a timeout. We did not read every MCP error path (15). `send_id` makes a repeated send return the first receipt, `wait` is held by the server rather than polled, and every tool carries readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint (20). Few required parameters and defaults for task, limit and timeout. The server answers only while the app or `openmausbot serve` runs, mutating tools need a paired token in packaged builds, and there is no client SDK beyond the CLI (8).",
          "b": "Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35."
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          "a": "The MCP server's 20 tools each have a JSON Schema input with `additionalProperties: false` and required fields marked. No OpenAPI for the local HTTP API (25). Markdown docs in the repository, and the docs app's source serves llms.txt, llms-full.txt and Markdown routes. docs.openmausbot.com disallows every crawler, so the live llms.txt was not read (10). Descriptions state purpose and limits, such as that `update_bot_profile` cannot alter permissions, that `send_bot_message` may make the bot use external tools and that `edit_bot_message` is refused while a thread works, and the server instructions say to read before mutating. Few say when not to use a tool (15). Integer limits with minimum and maximum, an enum on `scope`, a pattern on `send_id` and `oneOf` shapes for responders (13). JSON configuration examples for each install path, the wait statuses and job states, CLI exit codes and a `{ ok, error, hint, exitCode }` failure shape (12). MCP server version 1.1.0, release notes per version and a changelog page in the docs (15).",
          "b": "Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55."
        },
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          "b": 55
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        "by": 30,
        "category": "payments",
        "leads": "openmausbot",
        "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "No payment protocol (0). MausBot Cloud, the hosted option, is priced by plan on a public page ($15, $49 and $99 a month, Team $169 and Business $599, or Business self-hosted $299 a month billed yearly, re-read on 2 November), with extra computer-hours at $0.05 each, so plan pricing (10). The app is free with no card or account (20). `npx openmausbot` installs and starts it with no signup (20).",
          "b": "Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20."
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          "b": 20
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        "category": "security",
        "leads": "openmausbot",
        "name": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "reasons": {
          "a": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other harnesses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. The harness binds to loopback and keys stay in `~/.openmausbot`, but PostHog usage analytics are on until switched off, with a daily snapshot of what is set up, and the CLI guide says API keys are saved in plaintext with mode 0600 (18). Approval cards for provider permission requests, a narrow Always allow, isolated Local VMs and cloud computers, own-computer control off by default, and an MCP server that cannot approve, delete or touch credentials. New bots start at Full access, bot changes to skills, profiles and team setup apply without approval, and new bots keep every connected-app tool until grants are assigned (10). The docs say web page instructions never authorise credential use and that one-time codes go only to the site that sent them, and imported bots arrive with no grants, but bots read one-time codes from connected email without asking again (9). Per-thread NDJSON event logs, an Inspector, a decision log for connected-app grants and Undo lines for bot changes (12). SECURITY.md with an email, GitHub private vulnerability reporting enabled and scope notes that name one open risk. No published advisories, security.txt or bug bounty. npm releases use trusted publishing with provenance, and the Windows installer is unsigned (10).",
          "b": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33."
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        "leads": "openmausbot",
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        "reasons": {
          "a": "Read as local software. Official npm package `openmausbot` (Node.js 24 or newer) and signed, notarised macOS builds, a Windows installer and Ubuntu 24.04 packages, with supported platforms and a capability table in the README (20). 2,075 test files and a CI workflow on main. Of the last 23 finished CI runs on main on 30 October 2026, 10 passed, 3 failed and 10 were cancelled by newer pushes in a serialised queue (20). 365 open issues against about 3,940 issues and pull requests filed since 11 August, so most are closed, but the 25 newest open issues include several bug reports from 29 and 30 October with no reply yet (15). Release notes for every version in New, Easier and Fixed sections, but new capabilities ship in 0.1.x patch versions and no release marks breaking changes (5). Version 0.1.134, and the README calls the project early (0).",
          "b": "Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43."
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        "leads": "openmausbot",
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          "a": "v0.1.137 on 1 November 2026, after v0.1.135 on 31 October and v0.1.136 on 1 November (30). 128 desktop versions from 11 August to 30 October 2026, and three more since (20). The maintainer has 4,221 commits and the contributor list returns at least 100 accounts. 587 issues and pull requests were open from about 3,940 filed on 30 October, when we could only sample the newest open issues, nearly all from the last two days and mostly unanswered so far (per the 30 October check; github.com refuses our requests on 2 November) (16). Not in the official MCP registry, which returns nothing for mausbot (0). CI on main runs on every push with most finished runs passing, npm provenance and an SBOM for the bundled Cua runtime (per the 30 October check) (8). 30+20+16+0+8 = 74.",
          "b": "Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61."
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          "b": 61
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        "name": "Vendor"
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        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
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        "name": "Transports"
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        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
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      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Paid",
        "name": "Pricing"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
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      {
        "a": "Apache-2.0",
        "b": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published",
        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "20",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Tools exposed"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
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        "a": "2026-11-01",
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        "name": "Last release"
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        "a": "2026-10-18",
        "b": "2026-05-26",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
      {
        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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        "a": "8.2k stars, 3.5k npm/wk",
        "b": "none",
        "name": "Popularity"
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        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, OpenMausBot or Verdent?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "OpenMausBot is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Verdent.",
        "question": "Are OpenMausBot and Verdent open source?"
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          "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 35",
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          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 20",
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        "slug": "openmausbot",
        "watchFor": "New bots start at Full access, which approves provider permission requests without a card"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### OpenMausBot (B)\n\nGood for: A person or an outside agent who wants several CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Grok, ACP CLIs) organised as named bots with their own computers, routines and approvals, driven by MCP or a CLI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 60 against 43\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 59 against 33\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: New bots start at Full access, which approves provider permission requests without a card\n\n### Verdent (E)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.\n\nWatch for: No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Agent ergonomics: OpenMausBot +42\n\n- OpenMausBot (77): 20 tools, inside the 11 to 30 band, with annotations that separate reads from writes but no toolsets or read-only mode to load. Transcript reads are bounded and never return screenshot pixels (17). `limit` up to 200 messages, search capped at 100 hits, `task_id` and `scope` filters, and `since_ms` and `after_version` to keep watching a job (17). `wait_for_conversation` reports settled, needs-user, failed, stalled or timed-out with a redacted transcript tail, and the CLI's exit codes separate a pending approval from a timeout. We did not read every MCP error path (15). `send_id` makes a repeated send return the first receipt, `wait` is held by the server rather than polled, and every tool carries readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint (20). Few required parameters and defaults for task, limit and timeout. The server answers only while the app or `openmausbot serve` runs, mutating tools need a paired token in packaged builds, and there is no client SDK beyond the CLI (8).\n- Verdent (35): Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: OpenMausBot +35\n\n- OpenMausBot (90): The MCP server's 20 tools each have a JSON Schema input with `additionalProperties: false` and required fields marked. No OpenAPI for the local HTTP API (25). Markdown docs in the repository, and the docs app's source serves llms.txt, llms-full.txt and Markdown routes. docs.openmausbot.com disallows every crawler, so the live llms.txt was not read (10). Descriptions state purpose and limits, such as that `update_bot_profile` cannot alter permissions, that `send_bot_message` may make the bot use external tools and that `edit_bot_message` is refused while a thread works, and the server instructions say to read before mutating. Few say when not to use a tool (15). Integer limits with minimum and maximum, an enum on `scope`, a pattern on `send_id` and `oneOf` shapes for responders (13). JSON configuration examples for each install path, the wait statuses and job states, CLI exit codes and a `{ ok, error, hint, exitCode }` failure shape (12). MCP server version 1.1.0, release notes per version and a changelog page in the docs (15).\n- Verdent (55): Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55.\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: OpenMausBot +30\n\n- OpenMausBot (50): No payment protocol (0). MausBot Cloud, the hosted option, is priced by plan on a public page ($15, $49 and $99 a month, Team $169 and Business $599, or Business self-hosted $299 a month billed yearly, re-read on 2 November), with extra computer-hours at $0.05 each, so plan pricing (10). The app is free with no card or account (20). `npx openmausbot` installs and starts it with no signup (20).\n- Verdent (20): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: OpenMausBot +26\n\n- OpenMausBot (59): Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other harnesses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. The harness binds to loopback and keys stay in `~/.openmausbot`, but PostHog usage analytics are on until switched off, with a daily snapshot of what is set up, and the CLI guide says API keys are saved in plaintext with mode 0600 (18). Approval cards for provider permission requests, a narrow Always allow, isolated Local VMs and cloud computers, own-computer control off by default, and an MCP server that cannot approve, delete or touch credentials. New bots start at Full access, bot changes to skills, profiles and team setup apply without approval, and new bots keep every connected-app tool until grants are assigned (10). The docs say web page instructions never authorise credential use and that one-time codes go only to the site that sent them, and imported bots arrive with no grants, but bots read one-time codes from connected email without asking again (9). Per-thread NDJSON event logs, an Inspector, a decision log for connected-app grants and Undo lines for bot changes (12). SECURITY.md with an email, GitHub private vulnerability reporting enabled and scope notes that name one open risk. No published advisories, security.txt or bug bounty. npm releases use trusted publishing with provenance, and the Windows installer is unsigned (10).\n- Verdent (33): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33.\n\n### Reliability: OpenMausBot +17\n\n- OpenMausBot (60): Read as local software. Official npm package `openmausbot` (Node.js 24 or newer) and signed, notarised macOS builds, a Windows installer and Ubuntu 24.04 packages, with supported platforms and a capability table in the README (20). 2,075 test files and a CI workflow on main. Of the last 23 finished CI runs on main on 30 October 2026, 10 passed, 3 failed and 10 were cancelled by newer pushes in a serialised queue (20). 365 open issues against about 3,940 issues and pull requests filed since 11 August, so most are closed, but the 25 newest open issues include several bug reports from 29 and 30 October with no reply yet (15). Release notes for every version in New, Easier and Fixed sections, but new capabilities ship in 0.1.x patch versions and no release marks breaking changes (5). Version 0.1.134, and the README calls the project early (0).\n- Verdent (43): Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: OpenMausBot +13\n\n- OpenMausBot (74): v0.1.137 on 1 November 2026, after v0.1.135 on 31 October and v0.1.136 on 1 November (30). 128 desktop versions from 11 August to 30 October 2026, and three more since (20). The maintainer has 4,221 commits and the contributor list returns at least 100 accounts. 587 issues and pull requests were open from about 3,940 filed on 30 October, when we could only sample the newest open issues, nearly all from the last two days and mostly unanswered so far (per the 30 October check; github.com refuses our requests on 2 November) (16). Not in the official MCP registry, which returns nothing for mausbot (0). CI on main runs on every push with most finished runs passing, npm provenance and an SBOM for the bundled Cua runtime (per the 30 October check) (8). 30+20+16+0+8 = 74.\n- Verdent (61): Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | OpenMausBot | Verdent | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 60 | 43 | OpenMausBot +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 55 | OpenMausBot +35 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 35 | OpenMausBot +42 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 33 | OpenMausBot +26 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 20 | OpenMausBot +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 61 | OpenMausBot +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 55 | OpenMausBot +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **65.4 · B** | **39.7 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | OpenMausBot | Verdent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Supamaus Software Private Limited | Verdent AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | stdio |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published |\n| Tools exposed | 20 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-11-01 | 2026-10-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-10 | 2026-05-25 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-18 | 2026-05-26 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 8.2k stars, 3.5k npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**OpenMausBot.** A bounded 20-tool MCP server with typed schemas, annotations and idempotent sends, and a headless CLI with JSON output and exit codes, let another agent hand work to a bot team and wait on it. New bots start at Full access, so provider permission requests pass without a card, and usage analytics stay on until switched off.\n\n**Verdent.** A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### OpenMausBot\n\n1. Ask the owner for a pairing code from Settings \u003e Phone, exchange it at `POST /api/auth/pair`, and set `OPENMAUSBOT_TOKEN` with an explicit `OMB_PORT`\n2. Pass a `send_id` with every `send_bot_message` and `send_channel_message`, so a retry returns the first receipt\n3. Use `wait_for_conversation` instead of polling, and on `needs-user` stop and tell the owner a card is waiting\n4. Check a bot's access level with the owner before sending work. New bots run at Full access unless defaults were changed\n5. Ask the owner to switch off Settings \u003e General \u003e Usage analytics if nothing beyond model calls should leave the machine\n\n### Verdent\n\n1. Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode\n2. Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode\n3. Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape\n4. Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox\n5. Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, OpenMausBot or Verdent?\n\nOpenMausBot scores 65.4 (B) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are OpenMausBot and Verdent open source?\n\nOpenMausBot is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Verdent.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-verdent.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-verdent.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"openmausbot\", \"b\": \"verdent\"}`. 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