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      "name": "QwenPaw",
      "vendor": "AgentScope",
      "vendorUrl": "https://qwenpaw.agentscope.io",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "Open-source personal assistant from the AgentScope team that the owner runs on their own machine or server. It answers on chat apps, runs scheduled and proactive tasks, manages a mailbox over IMAP and SMTP, and keeps memory as Markdown files.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/agentscope-ai/QwenPaw",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "qwenpaw"
        },
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "agentscope/qwenpaw"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "none",
      "authNotes": "No account. The Console and API bind to 127.0.0.1:8088 with login off by default. `QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true` adds one admin account with a salted SHA-256 password hash and a signed token valid for seven days, and requests from localhost skip it. Each channel takes its own bot credentials, and the mailbox takes an IMAP and SMTP authorisation code or app password.",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under Apache-2.0 with nothing to buy. Model usage is billed by whichever provider the owner configures, and local models through llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio need no key. The README describes a hosted deployment on AgentScope Platform as free. That platform's pages are script-drawn and its terms and limits were not read (checked 2026-10-12).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs source or the dependency list (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 35621,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://qwenpaw.agentscope.io/docs",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "assistant.self-hosted",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "python",
        "docker",
        "desktop-app",
        "mcp",
        "telemetry-default-on"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-11",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 62.2,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 454,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1010,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 73,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 56
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -3,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-11. Version 2.2.1 began enforcing each MCP server's tool allowlist on the agent runtime path (commit f2a292d of 4 September, #7504). Before it, a tool the owner had disabled on an MCP client could still be invoked by the agent. Fixed and listed in the release notes, with no security advisory, -2. https://github.com/agentscope-ai/QwenPaw/pull/7504",
          "2026-09-03. Version 2.2.0 blocked shell line-continuation variants that bypassed sensitive-path protections (#7472). Fixed and listed in the release notes, with no security advisory, -1. https://github.com/agentscope-ai/QwenPaw/blob/main/website/public/release-notes/v2.2.0.md"
        ],
        "verdict": "Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.",
        "bestFor": "One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.",
        "strengths": [
          "New mail driver cards default to the `ask` policy, and automatic mail handling may not call `delete_message` or write to unknown recipients",
          "Kernel sandbox on macOS, Linux and Windows, with a documented list of constraints each backend does not enforce",
          "Model keys, mail credentials and environment secrets are encrypted with a master key held in the OS keychain or a 0600 file",
          "Memory is plain Markdown in the agent workspace that the owner can read, edit and remove",
          "Four stable releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026, each with dated release notes"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Usage data is on by default, `qwenpaw init --defaults` accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs",
          "The default approval level AUTO asks only for tool calls a guard rule flags, and `/proactive` skips approval prompts entirely",
          "Channel direct-message and group policies default to `open`, and Console login is off by default",
          "No privacy policy, terms of service or security.txt on qwenpaw.agentscope.io, and no published GitHub security advisory",
          "Inside containers the sandbox falls back to `mode=none`, which the docs say enforces no isolation",
          "671 open issues and 381 open pull requests on 12 October 2026, and the Tests workflow on main had not completed a run since 30 September"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set `QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true` before `qwenpaw init --defaults` or `qwenpaw app`. Both send usage data without asking",
          "Set `approval_level` to `STRICT` or `SMART` in `agent.json`. The default `AUTO` runs every tool call no guard rule flags",
          "Set `dm_policy` and `group_policy` to `allowlist` with `allow_from` on each channel. Both default to `open`",
          "Set `QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true` before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then",
          "Keep mail tools on `ask` for `send_message`, `delete_message` and `delete_thread`, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 62.2
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 67,
          "maintenance": 73,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 68,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 58
        },
        "provenanceScore": 53
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install qwenpaw \u0026\u0026 qwenpaw init --defaults \u0026\u0026 qwenpaw app   # Python 3.11 to 3.13; or: docker pull agentscope/qwenpaw:latest",
        "http": "curl -X POST http://localhost:8088/api/console/chat -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"X-Agent-Id: default\" -d '{\"input\": [...]}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/qwenpaw"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Qwenpaw PRIVATE LIMITED",
        "domain": "agentscope.io",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://qwenpaw.agentscope.io/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The site footer in the repository's website source reads © 2026 Qwenpaw PRIVATE LIMITED. The LICENSE file names The QwenPaw Authors, and the README credits the AgentScope team.",
          "SECURITY.md sends vulnerability reports to the Alibaba Security Response Centre. We found no other first-hand statement of ownership by Alibaba.",
          "The site links a Usage Policy dated 26 August 2026 and no terms of service or privacy policy, so both links are left out and the Apache-2.0 licence stands in.",
          "qwenpaw.agentscope.io answered 404 for robots.txt, llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt on 12 October 2026.",
          "No hosted endpoint is graded. A self-hosted instance answers on its owner's own host. We did not look up the domain's registration date."
        ],
        "score": 53
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "qwenpaw",
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "agentscope-ai/QwenPaw",
            "version": "v2.2.1",
            "released": "2026-09-11",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:20:06.630548362Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "qwenpaw",
            "version": "2.2.1",
            "released": "2026-09-11",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-13T23:20:04.628488233Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 35650,
        "pypiWeekly": 2913,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://agentscope.io/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T15:45:41.873198107Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://qwenpaw.agentscope.io/release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 404,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-13T20:21:56.090261572Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T23:20:06.630548362Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "slug": "town",
      "name": "Town",
      "vendor": "Town.com, Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.town.com",
      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "Town is a hosted AI assistant, called a Townie, with its own email address. It works across the owner's email, calendar and connected work apps, runs scheduled routines, and answers by email, text, WhatsApp, Telegram, the web or iOS.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json",
      "license": "Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "People sign up at town.com with account credentials or a linked Google or single sign-on account (https://www.town.com/terms-of-service). A routine can expose its own webhook URL, called with a bearer secret that is shown once and can be rotated. Town answers a wrong secret, a disabled endpoint and a missing one with the same 404 (https://www.town.com/docs/routines/stock-routines/webhooks).",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free at $0 with no credit card, 30 chat messages a month, the weekly briefing and a 7-day Pro trial on signup. Starter is $15 a month billed monthly with 1,250 credits. Pro ($49), Power ($99) and Power Plus ($199) are monthly prices at the billed-annually rate, and monthly billing is \"available at a slightly higher rate\". Team is $59 and Team Plus $149 a seat a month. Credits past the allotment bill at $0.044 (Pro), $0.038 (Power, Team), $0.032 (Power Plus) and $0.030 (Team Plus), with an optional monthly spend cap (https://www.town.com/pricing and https://www.town.com/docs/billing/plans, checked 14 October 2026).",
      "priceSummary": "$15 / mo",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on town.com's pricing, docs and terms, checked 14 October 2026.",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-14"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.town.com/docs",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "mailbox.read",
        "mailbox.send",
        "calendar.write",
        "messaging.whatsapp",
        "messaging.rcs",
        "messaging.inbound",
        "email.inbound",
        "voice.calls",
        "memory.user",
        "tasks.create",
        "notify.push",
        "agent.multi-agent",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "official",
        "closed-source",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "no-card",
        "ios",
        "soc2",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-10",
      "graded": true,
      "disclosure": "Town 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.",
      "competesWith": "localghost",
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 48.7,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 834,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1010,
        "categoryRank": 12,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 49,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 33,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 63
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-14"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.",
        "bestFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.",
        "disclosure": "Town 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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-routine webhook secrets, shown once and rotatable, with an X-Town-Idempotency-Key header and six documented responses.",
          "Routines run in autonomous, approval-required or read-only mode, with per-tool overrides and account scope defaulting to the trigger account.",
          "Webhook payloads are framed as untrusted data, and Town can block a webhook routine that combines untrusted input with autonomous sending.",
          "SOC 2 Type 2 audited per the trust page, with a security@corp.town.com reporting address.",
          "Free plan at $0 with no credit card, and a dated subprocessor list naming model providers."
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.",
          "The trust page says Town never sends without the owner's OK, while the docs describe autonomous routines and an Allow all actions session mode.",
          "A webhook call returns only 202, so the caller can't read what the routine did.",
          "No status page, published webhook rate limit or SLA found."
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.",
          "Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.",
          "Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.",
          "Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.",
          "Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
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          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 48.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 49,
          "maintenance": 60,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 33,
          "security": 79,
          "transparency": 50
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/town"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Town Starter",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 15,
          "note": "Billed monthly, 1,250 credits. Checked 14 October 2026."
        },
        {
          "item": "Town Pro",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 49,
          "note": "Billed annually, 5,000 credits. Monthly billing costs more."
        },
        {
          "item": "Town Power",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 99,
          "note": "Billed annually, 12,000 credits."
        },
        {
          "item": "Town Power Plus",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 199,
          "note": "40,000 credits."
        },
        {
          "item": "Town Team",
          "unit": "seat-month",
          "usd": 59,
          "note": "6,000 credits a seat, pooled."
        },
        {
          "item": "Town Pro overage",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.044,
          "note": "Per credit past the plan allotment."
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Town.com, Inc.",
        "domain": "town.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1996-11-13",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "https://www.town.com/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.town.com/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://www.town.com/updates",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-10-14",
        "notes": [
          "town.com's robots.txt gives ClaudeBot an allow list of named pages and disallows everything else, so only listed pages were read. security.txt and llms.txt are not on the list and were not requested.",
          "The terms name Town.com, Inc. and were updated on 21 July 2026. Legal contact legal@corp.town.com, support support@corp.town.com.",
          "No status page was found on the pages read.",
          "Webhook URLs are created per routine on Town's own service; their host is not shown in the docs.",
          "RDAP gives a registration date of 1996-11-13 for town.com, which predates the company."
        ],
        "score": 76
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.json"
    },
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        "a": "Agent harness",
        "b": "Platform",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "AgentScope",
        "b": "Town.com, Inc.",
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      },
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        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
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      {
        "a": "HTTP, stdio",
        "b": "HTTP",
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      {
        "a": "None",
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        "name": "Auth"
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      {
        "a": "Free",
        "b": "Freemium",
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        "a": "no",
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        "name": "Licence"
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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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        "name": "Last release"
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        "name": "Terms last updated"
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        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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        "a": "36k stars",
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    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, QwenPaw or Town?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Town.",
        "question": "Are QwenPaw and Town open source?"
      }
    ],
    "goodFor": [
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 70 against 35",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 68 against 33",
          "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 49",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 60"
        ],
        "also": [
          "No key needed to call it",
          "Runs on your own machine",
          "Open source"
        ],
        "goodFor": "One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.",
        "slug": "qwenpaw",
        "watchFor": "Usage data is on by default, `qwenpaw init --defaults` accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs"
      },
      {
        "aheadOn": [
          "Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 60",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 56"
        ],
        "also": [
          "Free to start without a card",
          "No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them"
        ],
        "goodFor": "An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.",
        "slug": "town",
        "watchFor": "The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in."
      }
    ],
    "job": {
      "capability": "assistant.proactive",
      "name": "Proactive personal assistants"
    },
    "others": [
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-qwenpaw.json",
        "title": "asaply vs QwenPaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-qwenpaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.json",
        "title": "asaply vs Town",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.json",
        "title": "Asmi vs QwenPaw",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.json",
        "title": "Asmi vs Town",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town"
      },
      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-qwenpaw.json",
        "title": "Boba vs QwenPaw",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-qwenpaw.json",
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.json",
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        "weight": 7
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      "qwenpaw": "Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.",
      "town": "Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default."
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  "markdown": "QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do proactive personal assistants.\n\n- QwenPaw: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #454 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwenpaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json\n- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #834 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### QwenPaw (B)\n\nGood for: One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 68 against 33\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 49\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 73 against 60\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Usage data is on by default, `qwenpaw init --defaults` accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs\n\n### Town (D)\n\nGood for: An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 79 against 60\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where QwenPaw loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | QwenPaw | Town | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 35 | QwenPaw +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 33 | QwenPaw +35 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 49 | QwenPaw +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 60 | 79 | Town +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | QwenPaw +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 60 | QwenPaw +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 63 | Town +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **62.2 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | QwenPaw | Town |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Platform |\n| Vendor | AgentScope | Town.com, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026). |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-11 | 2026-10-10 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked |  |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n| Popularity | 36k stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**QwenPaw.** Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.\n\n**Town.** Town is a hosted assistant that works across the owner's mail, calendar and work apps, and other systems can start its routines through per-routine webhooks with rotatable secrets, idempotency keys and documented errors. A caller can't read a run's result. The privacy policy and trust page disagree on whether training is on by default.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### QwenPaw\n\n1. Set `QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true` before `qwenpaw init --defaults` or `qwenpaw app`. Both send usage data without asking\n2. Set `approval_level` to `STRICT` or `SMART` in `agent.json`. The default `AUTO` runs every tool call no guard rule flags\n3. Set `dm_policy` and `group_policy` to `allowlist` with `allow_from` on each channel. Both default to `open`\n4. Set `QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true` before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then\n5. Keep mail tools on `ask` for `send_message`, `delete_message` and `delete_thread`, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling\n\n### Town\n\n1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.\n2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.\n3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.\n4. Send account_email only if the owner allowed the override. It must match a connected account in full and can't widen the routine's scope.\n5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, QwenPaw or Town?\n\nQwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security \u0026 auth and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are QwenPaw and Town open source?\n\nQwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Town.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-town.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"qwenpaw\", \"b\": \"town\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare qwenpaw town`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwenpaw.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json\n\n## Other comparisons with QwenPaw or Town\n\n- [asaply vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [asaply vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asaply-vs-town.md)\n- [Asmi vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Asmi vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/asmi-vs-town.md)\n- [Boba vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Boba vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boba-vs-town.md)\n- [Brea vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Brea vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-town.md)\n- [Del vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Del vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-town.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [HireAlpha vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [OpenInstinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openinstinct-vs-town.md)\n- [Orbits vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Orbits vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orbits-vs-town.md)\n- [Orchid vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Orchid vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orchid-ai-vs-town.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs szn](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-szn.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Tab](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tab-bot.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-zapia.md)\n- [szn vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/szn-vs-town.md)\n- [Tab vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tab-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Zapia](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zapia.md)\n- [AstrBot vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-town.md)\n- [Boski vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Boski vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/boski-vs-town.md)\n- [Caddy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Caddy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/caddy-app-vs-town.md)\n- [CowAgent vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-town.md)\n- [folk vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [folk vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/folk-nozomio-vs-town.md)\n- [GAIA vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [GAIA vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-town.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-town.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-town.md)\n- [Haven vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Haven vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-town.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-town.md)\n- [Instinct vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Instinct vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-town.md)\n- [IronClaw vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Leon vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Leon vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-town.md)\n- [Lindy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.md)\n- [nanobot vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [nanobot vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-town.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Dots vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Dots vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-town.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [PicoClaw vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/picoclaw-vs-town.md)\n- [Poke vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Poke vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/poke-vs-town.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Town vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Town vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-town.md)\n- [Pally vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Pally vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-town.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-tomo.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Tomo vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/tomo-vs-town.md)\n- [Town vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/town-vs-wajo.md)\n- [QwenPaw vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwenpaw-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Talorys vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/talorys-vs-town.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Town competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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