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Head to head · Assistants that remember you · October 2026 research run

Skydive vs Town

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security & auth. Both do assistants that remember you.

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SkydiveCreate, Inc. · Platform D52.1/100#899 of 1244 TownTown.com, Inc. · Platform D48.7/100#987 of 1244

Which one, for what

Skydive D

Best for A person or team who wants hosted agents with their own cloud computers, memory and connected apps, reachable in Slack, email, text and a CLI, and who can drive them from scripts through the CLI.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 41 against 35
  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 33
  • Agent ergonomics, 59 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 30
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 63

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install

Watch for

The API has no operation for sending an agent a task. That runs through the CLI's chat -p, outside the OpenAPI contract.

Town D

Best for An owner who wants a mail and calendar assistant whose routines other systems can trigger.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 79 against 59

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Skydive loses 5 points for them

Watch for

The privacy policy describes training with an opt-out and the trust page says training is opt-in.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSkydiveTownEdge
Reliability16%204135Skydive +6
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28133Skydive +48
Agent ergonomics13%16.25949Skydive +10
Security & auth14%17.55979Town +20
Payments & pricing10%12.53530Skydive +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85660Town +4
Transparency & trust7%8.87563Skydive +12
Negative events≤15-50
TotalD 52.1/100D 48.7/100

Facts side by side

FactSkydiveTown
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCreate, Inc.Town.com, Inc.
Hosted endpointhttps://api.skydive.com/v1no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceClosed service under the Skydive Terms of Service (Create, Inc.), effective 29 July 2026. The skydive-cli npm package is published under the MIT licence.Closed service under Town's Terms of Service (Town.com, Inc., updated 21 July 2026).
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-08-262026-10-10
Terms last updatedcouldn't be read2026-07-21
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read2026-07-21
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be readyes, with an opt-out
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be readyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be readnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be readnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be readyes
Popularity5.5k npm/wknone

Verdicts

Skydive

Skydive publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 document, Markdown docs and scoped, agent-bound API keys, though outside agents can send it tasks only through the CLI. Its status page records several major incidents, including a 25-hour Agent Hosting outage, and its home and pricing pages say data is never used for training while the privacy policy turns training on by default.

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.

Before you call either

Skydive

  1. Send tasks with skydive chat -p "..." --agent <id> --json and pass --conversation <id> from the JSON to keep context. The REST API can't send a task.
  2. Don't retry chat -p or a create blindly after a timeout. There's no idempotency key, so list agents or keys before retrying.
  3. Ask the owner for an agent-bound use key when you only need to read. Account-level edit keys can create agents and mint keys.
  4. Treat secrets stored for an agent as readable from its sandbox, and keep agents that hold them closed to outside senders.
  5. Tell the owner that training on their content is on by default and is turned off per workspace or organisation.

Town

  1. Start a Town routine with POST to its webhook URL, Authorization Bearer whsec_ secret, and application/json or text/plain. Expect 202 only.
  2. Send X-Town-Idempotency-Key with a stable event id on every retry so Town doesn't start a second run.
  3. Treat 404 as wrong secret, disabled endpoint or missing endpoint alike, and ask the owner to check Routine Settings rather than retrying.
  4. 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.
  5. Ask the owner to keep routines that act on webhook input in approval-required mode, as Town's own docs advise.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Skydive or Town?

Skydive scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against Town's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Town leads on security & auth.

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Disclosure

Skydive 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.

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.

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