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

Talorys vs ZeroClaw

ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do assistants that remember you.

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Which one, for what

Talorys F

Best for A single person who wants a private assistant for memory, tasks, notes and reminders on their own Cloudflare account.

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where ZeroClaw loses 3 points for them

Watch for

No API key, MCP server or A2A endpoint, and the /api routes need the owner's browser session.

ZeroClaw BB

Best for One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 74 against 41
  • Schema & documentation, 82 against 0
  • Agent ergonomics, 72 against 0
  • Security & auth, 76 against 8
  • Transparency & trust, 64 against 52

Also in its favour

  • Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
  • No key needed to call it
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The docs state that command execution is not audited. [security.audit] records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runTalorysZeroClawEdge
Reliability16%204174ZeroClaw +33
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.2082ZeroClaw +82
Agent ergonomics13%16.2072ZeroClaw +72
Security & auth14%17.5876ZeroClaw +68
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88380Talorys +3
Transparency & trust7%8.85264ZeroClaw +12
Negative events≤150-3
TotalF 28.9/100BB 70.2/100

Facts side by side

FactTalorysZeroClaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorRoc Yu (rociiu) and contributorsZeroClaw Labs
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingFreeFree
x402nono
LicenceMIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.MIT OR Apache-2.0
Read-only variant documentedyesyes
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-122026-09-05
Terms last updatedno document linkedno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno 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
Popularity978 npm/wk33k stars

Verdicts

Talorys

Talorys is an MIT-licensed assistant its owner deploys to their own Cloudflare account, with no telemetry, a documented threat model and code-enforced confirmation for destructive tools. It is two days old at version 0.1.5, has no mail, calendar or payment connections, and no interface for an outside agent.

ZeroClaw

Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.

Before you call either

Talorys

  1. Run npx create-talorys@latest with Node.js 22 or later and a Cloudflare login or an API token with Workers, Pages and Workers AI permissions.
  2. Don't script the /api routes. They need the owner's session cookie and CSRF header and aren't documented for other callers.
  3. Update with npx create-talorys@latest update. Only the latest version gets security fixes.

ZeroClaw

  1. Keep [risk_profiles.<alias>] level = "supervised". full runs every tool not listed in always_ask, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too
  2. Add sending and account tools such as send_via, google_workspace and http_request to always_ask so a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt
  3. List senders in [peer_groups.<name>] external_peers. ["*"] accepts anyone on that channel
  4. Set [web_fetch].allowed_domains and [http_request].allowed_domains. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress
  5. Run one-shot tasks with zeroclaw agent -a <alias> -m "<task>". A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Talorys or ZeroClaw?

ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Talorys's 28.9 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Are Talorys and ZeroClaw open source?

Yes. Talorys is open source (MIT (Copyright 2026 The Talorys contributors). It runs on the owner's Cloudflare account under Cloudflare's own terms.). ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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Disclosure

Talorys 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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