Sculptor is Imbue's open-source desktop app for running coding agents in parallel, each in an isolated copy of your code, with built-in skills for agentic development. It's labelled an experimental research preview.
Best for Developers who want parallel coding agents in isolated workspaces and are fine with a research preview.
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Assessment. Imbue's open-source app for parallel coding agents in isolated workspaces, with telemetry off until you choose otherwise. It's an experimental research preview that warns of bugs and drastic changes, Mac and Linux only, with no changelog.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Auth
- None
- Pricing
- Free · Free · OSS
- x402
- No
- Licence
- MIT
- Capabilities
- agent.harness agent.multi-agent
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- llms.txt
- not found
- Last release
From our research 1 fact checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface graded
- The open-source app, read from a clone of github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor on 7 November 2026. Nothing installed
Facts verified 7 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- Each workspace is an isolated copy of the code, reviewed and merged back
- Analytics, error reporting and session recording default to off, with consent at first run
- Built-in skills for agentic development
- MIT from Imbue, with CI on pull requests
Weaknesses
- Labelled an experimental research preview that may change drastically
- Mac (Apple Silicon) and Linux only
- No changelog file
- Few outside contributions accepted for now
Before you call it notes for agents
- Download from the README's links, connect a repository and create a workspace before prompting
- Review the diff before merging a workspace back to main
Who's behind it provenance 40/100
- Legal entity namedImbue, Inc.20/20
- Domain ageimbue.com, no registry record we could read0/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
- Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the MIT licence stands in10/10
- Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelognot found0/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People namednot researched yetn/a
- Support routenot researched yetn/a
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The MIT licence stands in and the check scores in full.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.
The licence names Imbue, Inc.. The repository is github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor.
Checked 2026-11-07 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 16:01 UTC
- security.txt none · 1 hour ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/sculptor.json
Notable
- The README calls it an experimental research preview and says Imbue uses it extensively itself source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 7 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 7 November 2026 | 16%20 | 8.6 | |
| Local software. Desktop downloads for Mac (Apple Silicon), Linux and Linux ARM64 (20). checks.yml and a PR gate run on the repository; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). sculptor-v tags up to v0.49.0, no changelog file (8). 0.x and labelled a research preview (0). 20 + 15 + 0 + 8 + 0 = 43. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 7 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 7.3 | |
| Harness reading. A README, specs and agent docs in the repository; no API reference (45). | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 7 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 8.1 | |
| Harness reading. Workspaces as isolated copies, review and merge back, and built-in skills (50). | |||
| Security & authchecked 7 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 10.0 | |
| Harness reading. Product analytics, error reporting and session recording default to off in the user config, and the app asks for a telemetry level and privacy consent at first run; PostHog runs on the front end only for now (25 of 30). Each workspace is an isolated copy of the code (14 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log (5). SECURITY.md (8). 25 + 14 + 5 + 5 + 8 = 57. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 7 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 7.5 | |
| Free self-hosted software with nothing to buy, so 0 for a protocol and 20 each for public pricing, a free tier and onboarding with no sign-up, 60. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 7 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.6 | |
| Commits on 6 November 2026 and frequent tagged versions (30). More than three releases in 90 days (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent; the README says Imbue can't take many outside contributions yet (0). Current official downloads (15). CI on pull requests (10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 = 75. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 73, provenance 40checked 7 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 5.0 | |
| MIT (30). Consent-based telemetry documented in the repository (18 of 30). The README warns of drastic changes during the research preview, with no deprecation policy (5). Opt-in telemetry (20). 30 + 18 + 5 + 20 = 73. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 53.1 · D | ||
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Graded 53.1 D methodology v0.7
Fix list 12 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Sculptor. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- unchecked: issues, release dates of the sculptor-v tags and whether CI passes
Sources 2
- repository README, licence, workflows, tags and docs, shallow clone github.com · seen 2026-11-07
- lead, the Conductor alternatives list the founder pasted on 7 November 2026, and awesome-agent-orchestrators github.com · seen 2026-11-07
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Free Free · OSS Free and open source. You pay for the coding agents it runs, through your own subscriptions or API keys (checked 2026-11-07).
Recent changes
- Latest release
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Install
Download for Mac (Apple Silicon) or Linux from the READMEAlternatives to Sculptor
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| goose Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) | BB | 71.3 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| AXLR Underpass AI | BB | 70.6 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| OpenHands All Hands AI | BB | 70.3 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| OpenCode Anomaly | B | 68.8 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| Qwen Code Alibaba (Qwen team) | B | 68.7 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| Kilo Code CLI Kilo Code Inc. | B | 68 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
Machine-readable
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/api/v1/tools/sculptor.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/sculptor.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/sculptor.xml - Markdown
/tools/sculptor.md· slim/tools/sculptor.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/sculptor.md·/fixes/sculptor.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool sculptor --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "sculptor"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
dig +short TXT sculptor.grade.anchorterminal.com(the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)
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