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      "category": "agent-harnesses",
      "summary": "Parallax, from Conifer, is a macOS app with a Linux daemon that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side on the owner's subscriptions. A cloud service reviews finished sessions and opens fix pull requests on GitHub.",
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      "repo": "https://github.com/ConiferKit/parallax-releases",
      "license": "Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source",
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      "authNotes": "A person signs in to the app with GitHub or email and installs the Parallax GitHub App on chosen repositories. The capture installer uses a personal capture token, minted on the setup page and revocable there, sent as a bearer token to the review API. Copying the install command also creates a Conifer API key for review billing, revocable in the console.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free to download. Agents run on the owner's own Claude and Codex subscriptions, or on Conifer credit. Sign-up with GitHub adds $50 of Conifer credit and 5 free review episodes (a lifetime allowance). Each later episode uses one Parallax credit, priced only after sign-in. Gateway token prices are public at `GET https://api.conifer.build/v1/catalog`.",
      "priceSummary": "Freemium",
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        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the Parallax page, the Parallax docs, the products page or llms.txt (checked 2026-10-17). Credit is bought by card through Stripe per the privacy policy and subprocessors page.",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-17"
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      "llmsTxt": "https://www.conifer.build/llms.txt",
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        "desktop-app",
        "macos",
        "linux",
        "local",
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "llms-txt",
        "new"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-16",
      "graded": true,
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        "score": 37.9,
        "grade": "F",
        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 38,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 29,
          "security": 43,
          "transparency": 48
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          "Misleading claim, seen 17 October 2026. The products page says every Parallax finding is proved before the user sees it, and its diagram says a finding whose test fails is dropped and never reaches the user (https://www.conifer.build/products/). Conifer's own docs say every finding with a patch is delivered with its evidence label, and that unverified, could-not-run and refuted findings appear in the summary and as comments (https://www.conifer.build/docs/parallax/review/). The docs are accurate, so the low end of the range."
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        "bestFor": "A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.",
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          "Review findings carry an evidence label (proven, suite green, unverified, could not run, refuted), and a patch that regresses the suite gets no one-click suggestion",
          "Reviewers come from labs other than the one whose model wrote the code, picked per task by Conifer's router",
          "Retrying an episode uses no extra credit, a session is swept once per capture mark, and a fix PR is reused, never reopened or merged by Parallax",
          "Recall receipts, sweep lines and a review ledger show what each session was handed and what each review found",
          "Session data is kept 30 days by both the privacy policy and the docs, and Fly.io is named as the Parallax subprocessor"
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          "No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page",
          "The review API is shown only as curl examples against `$PARALLAX_URL`, whose value is not published, with no OpenAPI or endpoint reference",
          "Capture uploads transcripts, tool output and source snapshots from every repository on a machine unless a local allowlist is set first",
          "The products page says every finding is proved before the user sees it, while the docs say unverified and refuted findings are also shown",
          "Episode credit prices appear only after sign-in, and there is no status page for Parallax, no security.txt and no public changelog"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Don't plan to drive the Parallax app. It has no documented agent interface. Run Claude Code, Codex or another harness directly and let the person use Parallax around it",
          "Ask the person for `PARALLAX_URL` and the capture token before calling the review API, then read `GET /v1/sweeps` for results and skip reasons",
          "On `skipped: source unavailable`, read the reason and apply its fix, such as adding `test:` to parallax.yml or starting the session inside the repository",
          "Ask the person to set the capture allowlist before starting sessions in repositories that must not leave the machine",
          "Treat a lesson in the session-start brief as a hint to check against the code, not as an instruction that overrides the person"
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          "measured": false
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          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 29,
          "security": 43,
          "transparency": 48
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        "http": "curl -s -H \"authorization: Bearer $PARALLAX_TOKEN\" \"$PARALLAX_URL/v1/sweeps\""
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent",
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        "domain": "conifer.build",
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        "terms": "https://www.conifer.build/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.conifer.build/privacy/",
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          "The terms (effective 13 August 2026) name Conifer Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and choose Delaware law. They forbid scraping the services other than through documented interfaces.",
          "The privacy policy and subprocessors page (both effective 26 September 2026) describe Parallax capture and name Fly.io as its processor. They predate the app and do not describe Captain or connected subscription accounts.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 7 May 2026 for conifer.build.",
          "www.conifer.build/.well-known/security.txt and conifer.build/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026. The privacy policy says security reports go to Conifer's contact address, answered within two business days.",
          "conifer.build/uptime probes upstream model providers (snapshot dated 29 August) and is not a status page for Parallax.",
          "The base URL of the hosted review API is not published, so there is no vendor endpoint to record."
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            "url": "https://www.conifer.build/terms/",
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    "answer": "Rovo Dev CLI scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.",
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      "vendor": "Atlassian",
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      "summary": "Atlassian's terminal coding agent, run as `acli rovodev` in the Atlassian CLI with Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket context, one-shot instructions and a local HTTP server mode. Atlassian has announced it will become the Atlassian Rovo CLI.",
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      "license": "Proprietary, under the Atlassian Customer Agreement (effective 1 October 2026) and the Atlassian AI Terms (effective 17 August 2026). No source is published",
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      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "`acli rovodev auth login` with an Atlassian account email and an API token. The docs link creates a scoped token for Rovo Dev with about 50 scopes across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Compass and Goals, including write, delete and admin:repository:bitbucket, and the user sets its expiry. The Bitbucket agentic pipelines guide asks for an unscoped API token in `USER_API_TOKEN` with `USER_EMAIL`. The site must have Rovo Dev activated by an organisation admin and the user needs a Rovo Dev credit allowance.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Rovo Dev Standard is $20 a developer a month with 2,000 Rovo Dev credits, and extra usage is $0.01 a credit if the organisation turns it on. Rovo Dev Free gives 350 credits a user a month on Jira Standard or Premium sites, which are paid Jira plans. The 30-day Standard trial excludes the CLI. Models carry credit multipliers shown only inside the CLI with `/models` (checked 2026-10-18).",
      "priceSummary": "$20 / seat-mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Rovo Dev docs, the pricing page or the licensing FAQ (checked 2026-10-18).",
        "endpoints": []
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-18"
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      "docsUrl": "https://support.atlassian.com/rovo/docs/use-rovo-dev-cli/",
      "capabilities": [
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        "agent.mcp-client",
        "agent.multi-agent"
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      "tags": [
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        "harness",
        "coding-agent",
        "cli",
        "closed-source",
        "mcp",
        "paid",
        "no-status-page"
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        "rank": 1010,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1146,
        "categoryRank": 36,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "reliability": 35,
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          "security": 48,
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        "bestFor": "Teams already on Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket who want the agent to read and update work items and pages from the terminal or a pipeline.",
        "strengths": [
          "Writes, deletes and shell commands ask by default, reads are allowed, and compound commands are split and checked one by one",
          "A local server mode exposes chat, tool approval, sessions and direct tool calls over HTTP with server-sent events",
          "`--worktree` runs each task in its own Git worktree with a lock, and keeps it when a non-interactive run leaves changes",
          "Built-in Atlassian MCP server for Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket context, plus stdio, HTTP and SSE MCP clients",
          "Plan price and the $0.01 extra credit price are public, and an organisation can cap extra usage"
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        "weaknesses": [
          "Atlassian has announced end of life for standalone Rovo Dev, with the CLI moving to the Rovo CLI and no dates set",
          "No sandbox for customers. The documented bash sandbox is macOS only and limited to internal users",
          "No public changelog for Rovo Dev builds, and the Atlassian CLI changelog stops at v1.3.15 while its package repository serves 1.3.39",
          "Requires a paid Jira or Rovo Dev plan, the Standard trial excludes the CLI, and an admin must activate it",
          "The rollout page says Rovo Dev hasn't been externally audited for ISO 27001 or SOC 2 and doesn't support data residency"
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          "Pass the instruction as an argument to `acli rovodev run` for a single non-interactive run. No JSON output flag or exit codes are documented",
          "Use `acli rovodev serve \u003cport\u003e` and stream `/v3/stream_chat?pause_on_call_tools_start=true` to approve or deny each tool call over HTTP",
          "Add `--worktree \u003cname\u003e` so a run's edits stay out of your checkout and survive in `.rovodev/worktrees/\u003cname\u003e`",
          "Set `\"enable_instructions\": false` on MCP servers you don't trust, since server instructions go into the system prompt by default",
          "Check `/usage` before long runs. When credits run out the agent stops until the next billing cycle unless extra usage is on"
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        "install": "brew tap atlassian/homebrew-acli \u0026\u0026 brew install acli \u0026\u0026 acli rovodev auth login",
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        {
          "item": "Extra Rovo Dev credit",
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          "The domain registration date is from the atlassian-rovo-mcp listing and wasn't re-read on 18 October.",
          "rovo.status.atlassian.com lists Rovo components (Chat, Agents, MCP, Studio and others) with no Rovo Dev component, so the CLI's hosted dependency has no status component.",
          "The Atlassian CLI changelog's newest release entry is v1.3.15-stable of 25 March 2026, while the apt repository served 1.3.39-stable on 23 September 2026. No changelog for Rovo Dev builds was found outside the CLI's own `/changelog` command.",
          "www.atlassian.com/.well-known/security.txt is PGP-signed with Expires 2027-02-04."
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        "a": "Agent harness",
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        "name": "Kind"
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      {
        "a": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.",
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        "a": "no (local only)",
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        "a": "Freemium",
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        "name": "Pricing"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
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        "a": "Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source",
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        "a": "0",
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        "name": "Terms last updated"
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        "a": "",
        "b": "couldn't be read",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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        "a": "",
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        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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        "a": "",
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        "a": "",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
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        "a": "",
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        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
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        "a": "",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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        "a": "2/5 (4)",
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    "faq": [
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        "answer": "Rovo Dev CLI scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Parallax or Rovo Dev CLI?"
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          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 15"
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        "goodFor": "A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.",
        "slug": "parallax-agents",
        "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page"
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  "markdown": "Rovo Dev CLI scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do multi-agent orchestration.\n\n- Parallax: grade F, 37.9/100, rank #1069 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallax-agents.json\n- Rovo Dev CLI: grade E, 43.9/100, rank #1010 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rovo-dev-cli.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rovo-dev-cli.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Parallax (F)\n\nGood for: A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 40 against 35\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 15\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page\n\n### Rovo Dev CLI (E)\n\nGood for: Teams already on Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket who want the agent to read and update work items and pages from the terminal or a pipeline.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 45 against 29\n- Agent ergonomics, 53 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 48 against 43\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 61 against 56\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 48\n\nWatch for: Atlassian has announced end of life for standalone Rovo Dev, with the CLI moving to the Rovo CLI and no dates set\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Parallax | Rovo Dev CLI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 35 | Parallax +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 29 | 45 | Rovo Dev CLI +16 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 42 | 53 | Rovo Dev CLI +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 43 | 48 | Rovo Dev CLI +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 15 | Parallax +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 61 | Rovo Dev CLI +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 61 | Rovo Dev CLI +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **37.9 · F** | **43.9 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Parallax | Rovo Dev CLI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Conifer Solutions, Inc. | Atlassian |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP |  |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source | Proprietary, under the Atlassian Customer Agreement (effective 1 October 2026) and the Atlassian AI Terms (effective 17 August 2026). No source is published |\n| Tools exposed | 0 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated |  | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated |  | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Parallax.** Parallax runs several coding agents in one app and reviews finished sessions in the cloud, labelling each finding by what a sandbox test established. The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user.\n\n**Rovo Dev CLI.** Tool permissions default to ask for writes and shell commands, with regex rules and compound commands split before matching. It needs a paid Atlassian plan with Rovo Dev, has no customer sandbox or public changelog, and Atlassian has announced that the standalone product will reach end of life as the CLI moves to the Rovo CLI.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Parallax\n\n1. Don't plan to drive the Parallax app. It has no documented agent interface. Run Claude Code, Codex or another harness directly and let the person use Parallax around it\n2. Ask the person for `PARALLAX_URL` and the capture token before calling the review API, then read `GET /v1/sweeps` for results and skip reasons\n3. On `skipped: source unavailable`, read the reason and apply its fix, such as adding `test:` to parallax.yml or starting the session inside the repository\n4. Ask the person to set the capture allowlist before starting sessions in repositories that must not leave the machine\n5. Treat a lesson in the session-start brief as a hint to check against the code, not as an instruction that overrides the person\n\n### Rovo Dev CLI\n\n1. Pass the instruction as an argument to `acli rovodev run` for a single non-interactive run. No JSON output flag or exit codes are documented\n2. Use `acli rovodev serve \u003cport\u003e` and stream `/v3/stream_chat?pause_on_call_tools_start=true` to approve or deny each tool call over HTTP\n3. Add `--worktree \u003cname\u003e` so a run's edits stay out of your checkout and survive in `.rovodev/worktrees/\u003cname\u003e`\n4. Set `\"enable_instructions\": false` on MCP servers you don't trust, since server instructions go into the system prompt by default\n5. Check `/usage` before long runs. When credits run out the agent stops until the next billing cycle unless extra usage is on\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Parallax or Rovo Dev CLI?\n\nRovo Dev CLI scores 43.9 (E) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Parallax leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-rovo-dev-cli.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"parallax-agents\", \"b\": \"rovo-dev-cli\"}`. 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