{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "verdent", "name": "Verdent", "vendor": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Verdent is a coding agent from Verdent AI, Inc., with a desktop app for macOS and Windows, VS Code and JetBrains extensions and a browser edition. It plans tasks, runs parallel workers in git worktrees and uses MCP servers.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json", "dns": "verdent.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in to a Verdent account with Google, GitHub or email in a browser. Model use runs on Verdent credits through llm-proxy.verdent.ai, or on the user's own Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter key (BYOK). BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI with keys kept on the machine. No API key or token for driving Verdent from another program was found.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "From $5 a month (Lite), then $19 Starter, $59 Pro and $179 Max with 320, 1,000 and 3,000 credits a month (doubled by a limited-time bonus). One credit is about $0.059 at provider rates. Top-ups $20 for 340 credits to $200 for 3,400. Free Mode and the free trial ended with v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026.", "priceSummary": "$5 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, pricing page, terms or changelog (checked 2026-11-06). Subscriptions and top-ups go through Stripe.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "closed-source", "desktop", "vscode", "jetbrains", "mcp", "byok", "paid-plans", "no-sandbox" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 39.7, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1336, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 53, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 35, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 55, "security": 33, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-11-06. The changelog says v2.18.0 of 29 October 2026 retired Free Mode, the free trial and the 100 welcome credits, while the pricing page FAQ read on 6 November still says \"Your free trial includes 100 credits\" and the 1.0 docs overview still lists a free trial. A stale claim on the vendor's own pricing page, 2 points. https://www.verdent.ai/pricing, https://www.verdent.ai/changelog" ], "verdict": "A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.", "bestFor": "A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.", "strengths": [ "Plan Mode is read-only and writes a plan.md for review before Agent Mode makes changes", "Parallel workers each run in their own git worktree, with a review column before work is accepted", "BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys", "Plan, top-up and per-credit prices are public, charged at provider token rates with no markup per the pricing page", "Every current docs page has a Markdown twin, and the changelog is dated by version" ], "weaknesses": [ "No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot", "No sandbox or network restriction documented, and the actions that need approval aren't listed", "Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, while the pricing page FAQ still promises 100 trial credits", "Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods", "SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and there is no bug bounty or security.txt" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode", "Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode", "Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape", "Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox", "Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 39.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 35, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 55, "security": 33, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 62, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "github": { "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/verdent" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lite plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 5, "note": "Eco Mode models and light usage" }, { "item": "Starter plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 19, "note": "320 credits a month, 480 with the limited-time bonus" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 59, "note": "1,000 credits a month, 1,500 with the bonus" }, { "item": "Max plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 179, "note": "3,000 credits a month, 4,500 with the bonus" }, { "item": "Credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.059, "note": "About $0.059, charged at provider token prices with no markup per the pricing page" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "domain": "verdent.ai", "domainRegistered": "2025-05-06", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The privacy policy names Verdent AI, Inc. as data controller, and the terms choose California law.", "The terms forbid users to crawl, scrape or otherwise harvest data or information from the Services. Public pages were read once each.", "www.verdent.ai/robots.txt allows all crawlers.", "RDAP gives verdent.ai a registration date of 6 May 2025.", "/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.verdent.ai did not answer. No status page found.", "The security page says SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and takes vulnerability reports at hi@verdent.ai with acknowledgement within five business days." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.json", "live": { "slug": "verdent", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://verdent.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:28.662063151Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bac05e4e426e" }, { "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:31.354667853Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3ec1d3c07d70" }, { "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:36:33.295376926Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "206b6ec23a6a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:33.272105482Z" } }, "answer": "Vibe-Trading scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "vibe-trading", "name": "Vibe-Trading", "vendor": "HKUDS", "vendorUrl": "https://vibetrading.wiki", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Vibe-Trading is an open-source, self-hosted finance research agent from HKUDS. It turns plain-English questions into market data pulls, strategy code and backtests, through a CLI, a web UI, chat apps or its MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json", "dns": "vibe-trading.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http", "sse" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "vibe-trading-ai" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account with the project. The owner supplies a model provider key in `agent/.env`, or uses Ollama, a ChatGPT OAuth sign-in for OpenAI Codex, a GitHub Copilot login or a local Claude Code login. The API server answers loopback clients without a key; any other client needs `API_AUTH_KEY` as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The MCP server's HTTP transport binds 127.0.0.1 with a Host and Origin allow-list and no token. Broker connector credentials are stored in the OS keyring by `vibe-trading connector setup` (https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/blob/main/README.md).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy from the project. The owner pays the model provider, or nothing with a local model through Ollama. 29 market-data sources are built in and most need no key. QVeris, an optional paid data marketplace, is a third party and is reached only in paid mode; the README carries a QVeris referral link and discloses it (checked 2026-10-25).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the source at v0.1.18 (checked 2026-10-25).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 82, "popularity": { "githubStars": 36500, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-25" }, "docsUrl": "https://vibetrading.wiki/docs/", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client", "data.markets", "market.crypto", "market.news", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.proactive" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python", "mit", "mcp", "cli", "harness", "docker", "no-card", "no-sandbox", "pre-1.0", "beta" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 781, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1510, "categoryRank": 23, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 63, "schema": 72, "security": 70, "transparency": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": -9, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-02. GHSA-v2f8-6655-7grj (CVE-2026-114108, critical). In 0.1.0 to 0.1.6 the API server answered every client without authentication when `API_AUTH_KEY` was unset, the shipped default, with the Docker container running as root on 0.0.0.0:8899, which the advisory chains to remote code execution. Fixed in 0.1.7 of 6 May 2026 and published five months later, -2 while under two months old (1 from 3 December). https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/security/advisories/GHSA-v2f8-6655-7grj", "2026-10-02. GHSA-jqmf-mx4f-hfr6 (CVE-2026-114107, critical). Shell and code injection in the LLM-callable `bash`, `background_run` and backtest tools, and SSRF in `read_url`, reachable through the unauthenticated API or prompt injection in a processed document, in 0.1.0 to 0.1.6. Fixed in the same 0.1.7 release, -2 while under two months old (1 from 3 December). https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/security/advisories/GHSA-jqmf-mx4f-hfr6", "2026-10-02. GHSA-5rmq-chc7-m22f (CVE-2026-114106, high). `read_document` read any file the process could reach and `safe_user_path()` accepted the whole home directory, in 0.1.0 to 0.1.6. Fixed in 0.1.7, -2 while under two months old (1 from 3 December). https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/security/advisories/GHSA-5rmq-chc7-m22f", "2026-09-29. Released fixes of the listing's own described flaws with no advisory. v0.1.16 carries \"fix(security): verify email TLS certs and guard settings-write routes\" (2242c412). The Email channel in 0.1.15 and earlier sent the mailbox password over implicit SSL without checking the certificate. The same commit closed a cross-site route that could steer the stored password to another host through POST /channels/email/test, a route added after 0.1.15 and never in a release without the fix. The commit cites no GHSA id, OSV holds no record, and the changelog entry isn't an advisory. One term (https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/commit/2242c412cab96cde2490c443199d003d64b13b41). -3" ], "verdict": "Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, a 0.1.16 credential fix got no advisory, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.", "bestFor": "A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, runs on the owner's machine, and no telemetry code was found in the source at v0.1.18", "No order-placing or order-cancelling tool is exposed over MCP, and shell tools are off on every MCP transport by default", "Live orders need an owner-committed mandate with hard caps, a kill switch and an append-only, hash-chained audit ledger", "Six PyPI releases in the 90 days to 25 October 2026, with a dated CHANGELOG.md and a Known issues section in 0.1.18", "API server answers only loopback clients without `API_AUTH_KEY`; Docker binds 127.0.0.1 and runs as a non-root user" ], "weaknesses": [ "Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, and 0.1.16's email TLS and cross-site fixes got no advisory", "The local CLI's `bash` tool and generated backtest code run without per-action approval or a sandbox", "82 MCP tools with about 44,000 characters of descriptions in the server source and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations", "Version 0.1.18 with a Beta classifier, and not in the official MCP registry", "Broker trading is described in the README as experimental and not verified against a real broker account" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run 0.1.16 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain, and send the email password without checking TLS certificates", "Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`", "Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server", "Use `vibe-trading run -p \"...\" --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed", "Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 63, "schema": 72, "security": 70, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 39, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install vibe-trading-ai # then: vibe-trading init # or: docker compose up --build from a clone", "config": { "mcpServers": { "vibe-trading": { "command": "vibe-trading-mcp" } } }, "headless": { "command": "vibe-trading run -p \"$TASK\" --json" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/vibe-trading" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "vibetrading.wiki", "domainRegistered": "2026-05-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-25", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named. The repository belongs to the GitHub organisation HKUDS, and pyproject.toml names HKUDS with an address at connect.hku.hk as author. The LICENSE names Vibe-Trading Contributors and NOTICE names HKUDS contributors.", "vibetrading.wiki is a static wiki on Cloudflare Pages built from the repository's wiki/ folder. It has no terms or privacy page, and the MIT licence stands in for terms.", "/robots.txt, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt on vibetrading.wiki all answered with the same HTML redirect to /home/ on 25 October 2026, so there are no robots rules, no llms.txt and no security.txt.", "SECURITY.md asks for private reports through a GitHub security advisory and promises an acknowledgement within five business days.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 14 May 2026 for vibetrading.wiki. The README dates the wiki's launch to the same day.", "There is no hosted endpoint. The API and MCP server answer on the owner's own host." ], "score": 39 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.json", "live": { "slug": "vibe-trading", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "HKUDS/Vibe-Trading", "version": "v0.1.19", "released": "2026-11-05", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:15:44.102050532Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "vibe-trading-ai", "version": "0.1.19", "released": "2026-11-05", "seenAt": "2026-11-07T00:15:43.819733725Z" } ], "githubStars": 37792, "pypiWeekly": 2517, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://vibetrading.wiki/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:54.85620888Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "vibetrading.wiki", "registered": "2026-05-14", "source": "https://rdap.nic.wiki/domain/vibetrading.wiki", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:23:54.063864064Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:18:29.2707234Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-05T13:02:55.916690108Z", "fingerprint": "558272c978a5" } ], "github": { "repo": "hkuds/vibe-trading", "checkedAt": "2026-11-02T08:25:25.970880064Z", "stars": 37416, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-11-01T19:12:28Z", "openIssues": 9, "openPRs": 15, "issuesOpened90d": 248, "issuesClosed90d": 249, "prsMerged90d": 740, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 44, "failure": 4, "other": 2, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-11-01T19:23:53Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-v2f8-6655-7grj", "severity": "critical", "published": "2026-07-29T12:13:09Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-5rmq-chc7-m22f", "severity": "high", "published": "2026-07-29T12:07:20Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-jqmf-mx4f-hfr6", "severity": "critical", "published": "2026-07-29T12:07:19Z" } ], "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 3, "medianDays": 0.9 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:54.85620888Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 40, "category": "payments", "leads": "vibe-trading", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.", "b": "Read with the self-hosted rule. No payment protocol (0). Free under the MIT licence with nothing to buy from the project, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. It runs with a local model through Ollama and needs no sign-up with the project. QVeris paid data, reached through a disclosed referral link, is a third party's product and is not scored." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 37, "category": "security", "leads": "vibe-trading", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33.", "b": "Harness reading used for nanobot and goose. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. No telemetry code was found in the source at v0.1.18, and the only call to PyPI is the owner-run `vibe-trading update`. The API answers only loopback clients without `API_AUTH_KEY`, Docker binds 127.0.0.1 and runs as user `vibe`, and the MCP HTTP transport binds 127.0.0.1 with a Host and Origin allow-list against DNS rebinding but no token. Broker keys go to the OS keyring; model keys sit in `agent/.env` in clear text. The docs carry no statement that nothing is collected (24). Live orders need a mandate that only the owner commits through the web UI or API, with hard caps and a kill switch, and an optional TAP mode waits for human approval of each Alpaca write. No order tool is exposed over MCP, and shell tools are off on the API and every MCP transport unless enabled. The local CLI runs `bash` and file writes without asking, and generated backtest code runs as a network-capable subprocess with a narrowed environment and no sandbox (13). Reader and search tools add warning-only `security_warnings` from regex rules, and external MCP tool hints are treated as untrusted in the source. The `claude-cli` provider's tool filters are described as convenience filters, not a boundary (9). A live-action ledger written append-only with a hash-chained copy, run cards with hashed execution records, tool traces and per-run token usage (13). SECURITY.md with private advisory reporting and a five-business-day acknowledgement. Three advisories were published on 2 October 2026 with CVE identifiers, five months after the 0.1.7 fix, while the email TLS and cross-site settings fixes in 0.1.16 got none. No security.txt and no bounty (11). 24+13+9+13+11 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 33, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 32, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "vibe-trading", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35.", "b": "Harness reading, scored on what an agent or script driving it has to supply. The MCP server registers 82 tools, with about 44,300 characters of descriptions across the 71 defined in the server file, and no toolsets or read-only subset (5). Since 0.1.18 the built-in agent loads tool schemas on demand, and skills load by section and offset, which keeps its own context smaller (plus 7, 12 of 25). Rows are capped by default, `read_run_artifact` pages by offset, row count and columns, oversized results are written to the run directory, the agent stops after eight tool iterations without a new result, and goals take token, turn and time budgets (18 of 20). JSON error envelopes with a type, a `--json` mode for `vibe-trading run` and a troubleshooting page, with no documented exit codes (15 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations on MCP tools. An identical call is refused from its second failure, failed swarm runs resume with completed tasks kept, interrupted web replies are checkpointed and TAP-routed Alpaca orders carry a deterministic `client_order_id` (12 of 20). `pip install` and `vibe-trading init` start it, market data works with no key, and a model key, Ollama or an existing Codex, Copilot or Claude Code login is required. Python only, with a REST API and no SDK in a second language (10 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 35, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 21, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "vibe-trading", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61.", "b": "v0.1.18 was tagged on 21 October 2026, 12 days before this check (30). Six releases in the 90 days from 4 August, 0.1.13 (tag 10 August) to 0.1.18, from the repository's tags; PyPI couldn't be read on 2 November (20). 771 commits on main in the 30 days to 2 November, 233 of them after v0.1.18, the last on 2 November; the 25 October repository page showed 7 open issues and 57 open pull requests, not re-read. Issue and pull request threads weren't read, a judgement call (18 of 25). An MCP server that isn't in the official MCP registry (searches for vibe-trading and hkuds on 2 November 2026 found nothing). It is published on PyPI, as a Docker setup and on ClawHub (5 of 15). Hash-locked requirements checked in CI on three operating systems, Dependabot set to monthly, and dependency floors raised for named CVEs, most recently on 29 October (9 of 10). 30+20+18+5+9 = 82." }, "scores": { "a": 61, "b": 82 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "reliability", "leads": "vibe-trading", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43.", "b": "Read with the local-software lines, as for nanobot and Agent Zero, since the owner runs it. `vibe-trading-ai` installs from PyPI for Python 3.11 or newer, with classifiers for 3.11 to 3.13, and a Docker Compose setup ships in the repository (20). A CI workflow runs the test suite on pushes and pull requests to main, with hash-locked dependency checks on Linux, macOS and Windows, and the repository holds 961 test files. Whether the latest runs on main passed couldn't be read, because GitHub's Actions pages weren't reachable (15 of 25). The repository page showed 7 open issues and 57 open pull requests on 25 October 2026, per that check (GitHub's pages answer 403 on 2 November), against 771 commits in the 30 days to 2 November, and the 0.1.18 notes list two known issues already fixed on main. Issue threads weren't read (18 of 25). CHANGELOG.md says it follows Semantic Versioning, with dated entries from 0.1.8, a Known issues section and an upgrade note for the LangChain 1.x move in 0.1.10, but on 0.x breaking changes ride in minor versions and there is no Breaking section (10 of 15). Version 0.1.18 with the classifier Development Status 4, Beta (0)." }, "scores": { "a": 43, "b": 63 } }, { "by": 17, "category": "schema", "leads": "vibe-trading", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55.", "b": "Harness reading of the lines, as for nanobot. The MCP server's tools take typed JSON Schema inputs generated from Python signatures through FastMCP, with a string output schema, and the API server serves FastAPI's OpenAPI file locally (keyless on loopback, behind the key otherwise). No published OpenAPI file or tool manifest outside the running program (20 of 25). No llms.txt on vibetrading.wiki, where /llms.txt redirects to the home page, and the docs are drawn by script from `content.en.js`. The repository carries Markdown READMEs in seven languages and an agent skill file, `agent/SKILL.md` (5 of 10). Tool descriptions say what each does, its arguments and what to call first, such as `list_skills()` before `load_skill`. The server's own header says every tool is read-only apart from `refresh_strategy_evidence`, while `write_file` is also exposed (14 of 20). Inputs are typed, but many choices are free strings (`protocol`, `risk_tier`, `format`) and several take free dictionaries (8 of 15). Many worked examples in the README and a troubleshooting page that names failure states such as `no_progress` and the 403 from another device; tool errors come back as JSON with an `error_type` (12 of 15). Dated CHANGELOG.md, GitHub release tags and versioned docs, though the docs still name 0.1.16 as latest (13 of 15)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 72 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "b": "HKUDS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "82", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-29", "b": "2026-10-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-05-25", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-26", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "37k stars", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Vibe-Trading scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Verdent or Vibe-Trading?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Verdent. Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Verdent and Vibe-Trading open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.", "slug": "verdent", "watchFor": "No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 63 against 43", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 72 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 67 against 35", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 33", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 61" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by 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Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenAI Codex vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-verdent.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-verdent.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Verdent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-verdent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Vibe-Trading", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unstoppable-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Unstoppable vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unstoppable-vs-vibe-trading" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 20, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "verdent": 43, "vibe-trading": 63, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 17, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "verdent": 55, "vibe-trading": 72, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 32, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "verdent": 35, "vibe-trading": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 37, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "verdent": 33, "vibe-trading": 70, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "verdent": 20, "vibe-trading": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 21, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "verdent": 61, "vibe-trading": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "verdent", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "verdent": 55, "vibe-trading": 53, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Vibe-Trading scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "verdent": "A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.", "vibe-trading": "Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, a 0.1.16 credential fix got no advisory, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.min.md" }, "markdown": "Vibe-Trading scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Verdent: grade E, 39.7/100, rank #1336 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verdent.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json\n- Vibe-Trading: grade C, 57.8/100, rank #781 of 1510. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Verdent (E)\n\nGood for: A person who wants a desktop app to plan and run several coding tasks at once, possibly on their own Claude Code or Codex.\n\nWatch for: No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot\n\n### Vibe-Trading (C)\n\nGood for: A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 63 against 43\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 72 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 67 against 35\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 33\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 82 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, and 0.1.16's email TLS and cross-site fixes got no advisory\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Vibe-Trading +40\n\n- Verdent (20): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Verdent subscription the agent needs. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices from $5 a month, top-up prices and the credit value of about $0.059 are public without a login (20). Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, so there is no free tier (0). A person signs up in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.\n- Vibe-Trading (60): Read with the self-hosted rule. No payment protocol (0). Free under the MIT licence with nothing to buy from the project, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines. It runs with a local model through Ollama and needs no sign-up with the project. QVeris paid data, reached through a disclosed referral link, is a third party's product and is not scored.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Vibe-Trading +37\n\n- Verdent (33): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). Conversation history and tool results go to Verdent's US servers and on to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex, with zero data retention stated for Vertex and Bedrock only. Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out. BYOA keys stay on the machine (10). Plan Mode is read-only, Agent Mode asks before destructive commands and edits outside scope, and workers are isolated by git worktree, but there is no sandbox or network control and the approval list isn't enumerated (9). No prompt-injection guidance found, while web search and fetch results enter the context (2). Usage history in the dashboard, no audit log found (5). A security page with a disclosure address and a five-day acknowledgement, SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 being pursued rather than held, no security.txt and no bug bounty (7). 10+9+2+5+7 = 33.\n- Vibe-Trading (70): Harness reading used for nanobot and goose. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. No telemetry code was found in the source at v0.1.18, and the only call to PyPI is the owner-run `vibe-trading update`. The API answers only loopback clients without `API_AUTH_KEY`, Docker binds 127.0.0.1 and runs as user `vibe`, and the MCP HTTP transport binds 127.0.0.1 with a Host and Origin allow-list against DNS rebinding but no token. Broker keys go to the OS keyring; model keys sit in `agent/.env` in clear text. The docs carry no statement that nothing is collected (24). Live orders need a mandate that only the owner commits through the web UI or API, with hard caps and a kill switch, and an optional TAP mode waits for human approval of each Alpaca write. No order tool is exposed over MCP, and shell tools are off on the API and every MCP transport unless enabled. The local CLI runs `bash` and file writes without asking, and generated backtest code runs as a network-capable subprocess with a narrowed environment and no sandbox (13). Reader and search tools add warning-only `security_warnings` from regex rules, and external MCP tool hints are treated as untrusted in the source. The `claude-cli` provider's tool filters are described as convenience filters, not a boundary (9). A live-action ledger written append-only with a hash-chained copy, run cards with hashed execution records, tool traces and per-run token usage (13). SECURITY.md with private advisory reporting and a five-business-day acknowledgement. Three advisories were published on 2 October 2026 with CVE identifiers, five months after the 0.1.7 fix, while the email TLS and cross-site settings fixes in 0.1.16 got none. No security.txt and no bounty (11). 24+13+9+13+11 = 70.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Vibe-Trading +32\n\n- Verdent (35): Harness reading. MCP servers per project or globally, subagents, skills and rules, but no per-tool disabling or deferred loading found (10). No output-size, turn-limit or budget controls for a run were found beyond credit balances (5). No exit codes or error format, since there is no headless mode (3). Parallel workers in git worktrees and a review column make runs reviewable and reversible, with no resume by ID documented (10). No CLI, API or SDK. A pipeline can only reach Manager through a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot (7). 10+5+3+10+7 = 35.\n- Vibe-Trading (67): Harness reading, scored on what an agent or script driving it has to supply. The MCP server registers 82 tools, with about 44,300 characters of descriptions across the 71 defined in the server file, and no toolsets or read-only subset (5). Since 0.1.18 the built-in agent loads tool schemas on demand, and skills load by section and offset, which keeps its own context smaller (plus 7, 12 of 25). Rows are capped by default, `read_run_artifact` pages by offset, row count and columns, oversized results are written to the run directory, the agent stops after eight tool iterations without a new result, and goals take token, turn and time budgets (18 of 20). JSON error envelopes with a type, a `--json` mode for `vibe-trading run` and a troubleshooting page, with no documented exit codes (15 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations on MCP tools. An identical call is refused from its second failure, failed swarm runs resume with completed tasks kept, interrupted web replies are checkpointed and TAP-routed Alpaca orders carry a deterministic `client_order_id` (12 of 20). `pip install` and `vibe-trading init` start it, market data works with no key, and a model key, Ollama or an existing Codex, Copilot or Claude Code login is required. Python only, with a REST API and no SDK in a second language (10 of 15).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Vibe-Trading +21\n\n- Verdent (61): Closed service. v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, eight days before this check (30). More than three dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August, among them 2.10.0 to 2.18.0 (20). A dated public changelog, a support address, Discord and a subreddit, with no public tracker to read reply times (8). No official SDK or MCP server to keep current (0). No public packages or CI to judge (3). 30+20+8+0+3 = 61.\n- Vibe-Trading (82): v0.1.18 was tagged on 21 October 2026, 12 days before this check (30). Six releases in the 90 days from 4 August, 0.1.13 (tag 10 August) to 0.1.18, from the repository's tags; PyPI couldn't be read on 2 November (20). 771 commits on main in the 30 days to 2 November, 233 of them after v0.1.18, the last on 2 November; the 25 October repository page showed 7 open issues and 57 open pull requests, not re-read. Issue and pull request threads weren't read, a judgement call (18 of 25). An MCP server that isn't in the official MCP registry (searches for vibe-trading and hkuds on 2 November 2026 found nothing). It is published on PyPI, as a Docker setup and on ClawHub (5 of 15). Hash-locked requirements checked in CI on three operating systems, Dependabot set to monthly, and dependency floors raised for named CVEs, most recently on 29 October (9 of 10). 30+20+18+5+9 = 82.\n\n### Reliability: Vibe-Trading +20\n\n- Verdent (43): Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The desktop app installs from verdent.ai with macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 stated, and the extension from the editor marketplaces, but not from a package registry (15). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published (0). No public issue tracker, every task runs through Verdent's servers, and no status page was found, so there is no readable record (5). A dated changelog by version, with the end of Free Mode called out in v2.18.0, but no breaking-change sections (8). 2.18.0, generally available (15). 15+0+5+8+15 = 43.\n- Vibe-Trading (63): Read with the local-software lines, as for nanobot and Agent Zero, since the owner runs it. `vibe-trading-ai` installs from PyPI for Python 3.11 or newer, with classifiers for 3.11 to 3.13, and a Docker Compose setup ships in the repository (20). A CI workflow runs the test suite on pushes and pull requests to main, with hash-locked dependency checks on Linux, macOS and Windows, and the repository holds 961 test files. Whether the latest runs on main passed couldn't be read, because GitHub's Actions pages weren't reachable (15 of 25). The repository page showed 7 open issues and 57 open pull requests on 25 October 2026, per that check (GitHub's pages answer 403 on 2 November), against 771 commits in the 30 days to 2 November, and the 0.1.18 notes list two known issues already fixed on main. Issue threads weren't read (18 of 25). CHANGELOG.md says it follows Semantic Versioning, with dated entries from 0.1.8, a Known issues section and an upgrade note for the LangChain 1.x move in 0.1.10, but on 0.x breaking changes ride in minor versions and there is no Breaking section (10 of 15). Version 0.1.18 with the classifier Development Status 4, Beta (0).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Vibe-Trading +17\n\n- Verdent (55): Framework reading for a harness. No schema for settings or output, only mcp.json examples in the standard mcpServers shape (5). Every current docs page has a Markdown twin at the same path with .md, though no llms.txt (10). The docs say when to use Agent Mode or Plan Mode and what Plan Mode can't do, but the Agent Mode page lists the actions that need approval only as \"certain tool executions\" and \"destructive operations\" (12). Modes and BYOA agent types are enumerated, permissions are not (5). Examples on the MCP, BYOA and messaging pages, and a recovery page, with no error codes (8). Version numbers and a dated public changelog (15). The archived 1.0 docs are still served beside the current ones. 5+10+12+5+8+15 = 55.\n- Vibe-Trading (72): Harness reading of the lines, as for nanobot. The MCP server's tools take typed JSON Schema inputs generated from Python signatures through FastMCP, with a string output schema, and the API server serves FastAPI's OpenAPI file locally (keyless on loopback, behind the key otherwise). No published OpenAPI file or tool manifest outside the running program (20 of 25). No llms.txt on vibetrading.wiki, where /llms.txt redirects to the home page, and the docs are drawn by script from `content.en.js`. The repository carries Markdown READMEs in seven languages and an agent skill file, `agent/SKILL.md` (5 of 10). Tool descriptions say what each does, its arguments and what to call first, such as `list_skills()` before `load_skill`. The server's own header says every tool is read-only apart from `refresh_strategy_evidence`, while `write_file` is also exposed (14 of 20). Inputs are typed, but many choices are free strings (`protocol`, `risk_tier`, `format`) and several take free dictionaries (8 of 15). Many worked examples in the README and a troubleshooting page that names failure states such as `no_progress` and the 403 from another device; tool errors come back as JSON with an `error_type` (12 of 15). Dated CHANGELOG.md, GitHub release tags and versioned docs, though the docs still name 0.1.16 as latest (13 of 15).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Verdent | Vibe-Trading | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 63 | Vibe-Trading +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 72 | Vibe-Trading +17 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 35 | 67 | Vibe-Trading +32 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 33 | 70 | Vibe-Trading +37 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | Vibe-Trading +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 82 | Vibe-Trading +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 53 | Verdent +2 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -9 | |\n| **Total** | | **39.7 · E** | **57.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Verdent | Vibe-Trading |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Verdent AI, Inc. | HKUDS |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 82 |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-05-25 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-26 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Popularity | none | 37k stars |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Verdent\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Vibe-Trading\n\n- -5.0 on 2 November 2026 (B to C): correction\n- +0.4 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: new evidence\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Verdent.** A desktop and editor coding agent that splits a goal into parallel workers in git worktrees, with a read-only Plan Mode, MCP servers and the option to run workers on Claude Code or Codex. It has no CLI, API or sandbox, sends context through Verdent's servers, and has had no free tier since 29 October 2026.\n\n**Vibe-Trading.** Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, a 0.1.16 credential fix got no advisory, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Verdent\n\n1. Don't plan to drive Verdent headless. Hand the task to the person using the desktop app, or use a harness with a print mode\n2. Start large changes in Plan Mode and review plan.md before switching to Agent Mode\n3. Add MCP servers in the project's .mcp.json or ~/.verdent/mcp.json in the mcpServers shape\n4. Keep work under git, since rollback relies on git and there is no sandbox\n5. Budget in credits at about $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026\n\n### Vibe-Trading\n\n1. Run 0.1.16 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain, and send the email password without checking TLS certificates\n2. Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`\n3. Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server\n4. Use `vibe-trading run -p \"...\" --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed\n5. Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Verdent or Vibe-Trading?\n\nVibe-Trading scores 57.8 (C) on agent readiness against Verdent's 39.7 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are Verdent and Vibe-Trading open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Verdent. Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"verdent\", \"b\": \"vibe-trading\"}`. 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