# Skydive vs Town

> Skydive scores 52.1 (D) to Town's 48.7 (D) for assistants that remember you. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-10-31

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.

- Skydive: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/skydive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/skydive.json
- Town: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #987 of 1244. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/town.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/town.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 1245 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Skydive (D)

Good 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Skydive | Town | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 41 | 35 | Skydive +6 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 33 | Skydive +48 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 59 | 49 | Skydive +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 79 | Town +20 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Skydive +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 60 | Town +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 63 | Skydive +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **52.1 · D** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Skydive | Town |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Create, Inc. | Town.com, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.skydive.com/v1` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed 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 documented | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-26 | 2026-10-10 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-07-21 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 5.5k npm/wk | none |

## 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.


## For agents

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

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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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