# Sculptor (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.md (~4,650 tokens) · this version ~880 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-07 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**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

- Kind: Agent harness · vendor: Imbue, Inc. · category: Agent harnesses · legal entity: Imbue, Inc. · provenance 40/100
- Auth: None · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Benchmark probes: not run yet, so Performance is pending
- Surface graded: The open-source app, read from a clone of github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor on 7 November 2026. Nothing installed

- Scores: Reliability 43, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 45, Agent ergonomics 50, Security & auth 57, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 75, Transparency & trust 57 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Local software. · Schema & documentation, Harness reading. · Agent ergonomics, Harness reading. · Security & auth, Harness reading. · Payments & pricing, 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-u… · Maintenance & community, Commits on 6 November 2026 and frequent tagged versions (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT (30).
- Sources: 2, open questions: 1, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.harness, agent.multi-agent
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sculptor.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/sculptor.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sculptor from a page on imbue.com or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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

```bash
Download for Mac (Apple Silicon) or Linux from the README
```

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