# Sculptor > 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. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor - Pricing: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor#pricing - Reviews: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor#reviews - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.md (~4,650 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.min.md (~880 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT sculptor.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-07 ## Overview **Grade D · 53.1/100 · rank #960 of 1486 · #37 in Agent harnesses · not agent-ready · confidence low** ## 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 | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Vendor | Imbue, Inc. (https://imbue.com) | | Kind | Agent harness | | Category | Agent harnesses (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/agent-harnesses) | | Auth | None | | Pricing | 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). | | x402 | No · No payment protocol in the repository or README (checked 2026-11-07). | | Licence | MIT | | Source | https://github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor | | Docs | https://github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor#readme | | llms.txt | not found | | Last release | 2026-11-06 | | Surface graded | The open-source app, read from a clone of github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor on 7 November 2026. Nothing installed | | Capabilities | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | | Tags | open-source, mit, desktop-app, new | | JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sculptor.json | ## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run) Assessed 2026-11-07 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: low. Performance and Task success pending (no score, not in the total); the total is Σ(score × weight) ÷ 80 over the 7 assessed categories. "This run" is each category's share of the 100 points. | Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% | 20 | 43 | 8.6 | | Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Schema & documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 45 | 7.3 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 50 | 8.1 | | Security & auth | 14% | 17.5 | 57 | 10.0 | | Payments & pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 60 | 7.5 | | Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a | | Maintenance & community | 7% | 8.8 | 75 | 6.6 | | Transparency & trust (editorial 73, provenance 40) | 7% | 8.8 | 57 | 5.0 | | Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | none recorded | 0 | | **Total** | | | | **53.1 → D** | ### Why each score - Reliability 43 (checked 2026-11-07): 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. - Performance: Pending. Latency is measured per call by our probes, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until the first probe window closes. - Schema & documentation 45 (checked 2026-11-07): Harness reading. A README, specs and agent docs in the repository; no API reference (45). - Agent ergonomics 50 (checked 2026-11-07): Harness reading. Workspaces as isolated copies, review and merge back, and built-in skills (50). - Security & auth 57 (checked 2026-11-07): 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 & pricing 60 (checked 2026-11-07): 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 success: Pending. Task success needs the category task suites run through each tool, which haven't run yet, so this run doesn't score it. Its weight is shared across the assessed categories until then. A data provider's data-quality score is published on its listing now and becomes half of this category when it's scored. - Maintenance & community 75 (checked 2026-11-07): 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 & trust 57 (checked 2026-11-07): 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. Fix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (12 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/sculptor.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/sculptor.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{"listing": "sculptor", "plan": "read"}`, free while the beta runs ### What we couldn't check - unchecked: issues, release dates of the sculptor-v tags and whether CI passes ### Sources - repository README, licence, workflows, tags and docs, shallow clone: (seen 2026-11-07) - lead, the Conductor alternatives list the founder pasted on 7 November 2026, and awesome-agent-orchestrators: (seen 2026-11-07) ## Score history Every move of a score since the listing was graded, newest first, with its cause. A score can't move without an entry here. JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sculptor/history.json - 2026-11-07: graded 53.1 D (methodology 0.7) ## Who's behind it (provenance 40/100, checked 2026-11-07) | Check | Finding | Points | | --- | --- | --- | | Legal entity named | Imbue, Inc. | 20/20 | | Domain age | imbue.com, no registry record we could read | 0/15 | | Endpoint on the vendor's domain | no hosted endpoint | n/a | | Terms of service | nothing hosted, so the MIT licence stands in | 10/10 | | Privacy policy | nothing hosted, not scored | n/a | | Status page | not found | 0/10 | | Changelog | not found | 0/10 | | security.txt | not found | 0/10 | | People named | not researched yet | n/a | | Support route | not researched yet | n/a | 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. ### Terms and privacy, as read A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice. **Terms of service**. 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**. Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored. ## Live (updated 2026-11-07 16:01 UTC) - security.txt: none - Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/sculptor.json ## 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. Live uptime, where we poll the endpoint, is under Live and doesn't change the score. ## 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) 1. Download from the README's links, connect a repository and create a workspace before prompting 2. Review the diff before merging a workspace back to main ## Connect Install: ```bash Download for Mac (Apple Silicon) or Linux from the README ``` ## Similar tools Ranked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last. | Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | goose | BB | 71.3 | 165 | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goose.md | | AXLR | BB | 70.6 | 197 | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.md | | OpenHands | BB | 70.3 | 206 | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.md | | OpenCode | B | 68.8 | 269 | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opencode.md | | Qwen Code | B | 68.7 | 273 | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.md | | Kilo Code CLI | B | 68 | 295 | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kilo-code-cli.md | ## Panel reviews (0) Reviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): . Desk reviews, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. For a desk review, the outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material: success, partial or failure. How reviews work: https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviews/how-it-works.md ## Notable - The README calls it an experimental research preview and says Imbue uses it extensively itself (source: ) - #37 of 56 in Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md - All 1500 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md ## Compare - [Agent Zero vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-sculptor.md): D 46 vs D 53.1 - [Aider vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-sculptor.md): D 49.1 vs D 53.1 - [Amp vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-sculptor.md): C 55.5 vs D 53.1 - [Antigravity CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 54.7 vs D 53.1 - [Auggie CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-sculptor.md): D 49.3 vs D 53.1 - [AXLR vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-sculptor.md): BB 70.6 vs D 53.1 - [Claude Code vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-sculptor.md): D 53.6 vs D 53.1 - [Cline vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-sculptor.md): D 52.8 vs D 53.1 - [Conductor vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-sculptor.md): E 41.3 vs D 53.1 - [Crush vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-sculptor.md): D 49.8 vs D 53.1 - [Cursor CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-sculptor.md): F 35.4 vs D 53.1 - [DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-sculptor.md): D 48.5 vs D 53.1 - [dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-sculptor.md): E 42.1 vs D 53.1 - [Devin vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-sculptor.md): C 57.3 vs D 53.1 - [Droid CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 57.2 vs D 53.1 - [Pi vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-sculptor.md): B 62.6 vs D 53.1 - [Emdash vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emdash-vs-sculptor.md): D 53.9 vs D 53.1 - [Gemini CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-sculptor.md): B 64.8 vs D 53.1 - [GitHub Copilot CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 56 vs D 53.1 - [goose vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-sculptor.md): BB 71.3 vs D 53.1 - [Harness² vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-sculptor.md): E 42 vs D 53.1 - [HarnessRouter vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-sculptor.md): D 47.7 vs D 53.1 - [Jules vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-sculptor.md): E 45.1 vs D 53.1 - [Junie CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-sculptor.md): D 49 vs D 53.1 - [Kilo Code CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-sculptor.md): B 68 vs D 53.1 - [Kimi Code CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 58.1 vs D 53.1 - [Kiro CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 59.8 vs D 53.1 - [Letta vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letta-vs-sculptor.md): C 59.7 vs D 53.1 - [mini-swe-agent vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-sculptor.md): C 59 vs D 53.1 - [MiniMax Code vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-sculptor.md): B 66.1 vs D 53.1 - [Mistral Vibe CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 58.4 vs D 53.1 - [Muse Code vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-sculptor.md): C 56.2 vs D 53.1 - [OpenAI Agents API vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-agents-api-vs-sculptor.md): BB 73.3 vs D 53.1 - [OpenAI Codex vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-sculptor.md): BB 73.5 vs D 53.1 - [OpenCode vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-sculptor.md): B 68.8 vs D 53.1 - [OpenHands vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-sculptor.md): BB 70.3 vs D 53.1 - [Orca vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-sculptor.md): C 57.4 vs D 53.1 - [Paseo vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-sculptor.md): B 62.1 vs D 53.1 - [Prime Agent vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-sculptor.md): C 56.8 vs D 53.1 - [Qoder CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-sculptor.md): C 59.5 vs D 53.1 - [Qwen Code vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-sculptor.md): B 68.7 vs D 53.1 - [Mirror CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-sculptor.md): C 57.2 vs D 53.1 - [Rovo Dev CLI vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rovo-dev-cli-vs-sculptor.md): E 44.1 vs D 53.1 - [Sculptor vs T3 Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-t3-code.md): D 53.1 vs D 51.9 - [Sculptor vs Traycer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-traycer.md): D 53.1 vs C 57 - [Sculptor vs Unstoppable](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-unstoppable.md): D 53.1 vs F 34.7 - [Sculptor vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-verdent.md): D 53.1 vs E 39.7 - [Sculptor vs Vibe-Trading](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-vibe-trading.md): D 53.1 vs C 57.8 - [Sculptor vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-warp.md): D 53.1 vs C 57.6 - [Clawboo vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-sculptor.md): C 61.4 vs D 53.1 - [CLI Manager vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-sculptor.md): B 66.4 vs D 53.1 - [Harness vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-sculptor.md): C 60.9 vs D 53.1 - [OpenMausBot vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-sculptor.md): B 65.4 vs D 53.1 - [Paperclip vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-sculptor.md): D 52.6 vs D 53.1 - [Parallax vs Sculptor](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-sculptor.md): E 38.1 vs D 53.1 ## Verify this listing For the vendor. The badge or a plain link to this page verifies the listing, from a page on imbue.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor. It shows the listing is the vendor's and that the vendor knows it's here, and it never changes a grade, rank or review. The vendor sends the page's address to `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` as `{"slug": "sculptor", "url": "…"}`, or calls the `verify_listing` tool at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp. We fetch the page once, then again every week; two failed checks in a row and the verification lapses, and a later pass restores it. What we check: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/index.md#verify HTML badge: ```html Sculptor on Anchor Terminal ``` Markdown badge, for a README: ```markdown [![Sculptor on Anchor Terminal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/sculptor.svg)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor) ``` Plain link: ```html Sculptor on Anchor Terminal ``` ## Share this listing For the vendor. Sharing assets for social media, two PNGs of 1200 × 630 that say Sculptor is listed on Anchor Terminal, with the vendor's logo and this page's address and no grade or score. - Dark: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/sculptor-dark.png - Light: https://www.anchorterminal.com/assets/share/sculptor-light.png --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp