# PicoClaw vs Wajo (Fo)

> PicoClaw scores 46.1 (D) to Wajo's 43.9 (E) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

PicoClaw scores 46.1 (D) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation. Both do assistants that remember you.

- PicoClaw: grade D, 46.1/100, rank #881 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/picoclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/picoclaw.json
- Wajo (Fo): grade E, 43.9/100, rank #907 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/wajo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### PicoClaw (D)

Good for: A person who wants a chat-app assistant on a cheap Linux board, an old Android phone or a home server, with reminders, web search and file memory, and who accepts running software its maker calls pre-production.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 54 against 30
- Security & auth, 51 against 38
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 22 against 3
- Transparency & trust, 56 against 47

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source

Watch for: No commit on main since 19 August 2026 and no release since v0.3.1 on 3 July 2026. An issue of 6 October calls the repository unmaintained, with no reply

### Wajo (Fo) (E)

Good 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 51

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where PicoClaw loses 7 points for them

Watch for: No status page, changelog or security contact found.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | PicoClaw | Wajo (Fo) | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 54 | 30 | PicoClaw +24 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 74 | Wajo (Fo) +23 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 68 | Wajo (Fo) +2 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 51 | 38 | PicoClaw +13 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | PicoClaw +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 22 | 3 | PicoClaw +19 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 47 | PicoClaw +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **46.1 · D** | **43.9 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | PicoClaw | Wajo (Fo) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |
| Vendor | Sipeed | Wajo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.api.wajo.ai/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | Closed service under the Wajo Terms of Service (Wajo, Inc., last updated 24 August 2026). |
| Tools exposed | none | 21 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-07-03 | none |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 30k stars | none |

## Verdicts

**PicoClaw.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with 19 documented chat channels, scheduled and heartbeat tasks, and local file memory. The repository has had no commit since 19 August 2026 and no release since 3 July, and 15 CVEs are listed against it with no advisory or security policy from the project.

**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

### PicoClaw

1. Set `allow_from` to the owner's user ID on every channel before starting the gateway. An empty list accepts messages from anyone
2. Set `tools.exec.allow_remote` to `false` unless chats must run shell commands. The shipped default is `true`, whatever docs/guides/configuration.md says
3. Set `isolation.enabled` to `true` on Linux (needs `bwrap`) or run in a container. The deny patterns do not inspect child processes
4. Use `PICOCLAW_KEY_PASSPHRASE` for credential encryption. One docs page names `PICOCLAW_CREDENTIAL_PASSPHRASE`, which the source does not read
5. Treat the README's ClawdChat line (read a remote skill file and follow it) as untrusted third-party instructions

### 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, PicoClaw or Wajo (Fo)?

PicoClaw scores 46.1 (D) on agent readiness against Wajo (Fo)'s 43.9 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Wajo (Fo) leads on schema & documentation.

### Are PicoClaw and Wajo (Fo) open source?

PicoClaw is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Wajo (Fo).


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-wajo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-wajo.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "picoclaw", "b": "wajo"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare picoclaw wajo`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/picoclaw.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/wajo.json

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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.