{ "data": { "similar": [ { "grade": "BB", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goose.json", "name": "goose", "score": 71.3, "shared": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "slug": "goose" }, { "grade": "BB", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.json", "name": "AXLR", "score": 70.6, "shared": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "slug": "axlr" }, { "grade": "BB", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.json", "name": "OpenHands", "score": 70.3, "shared": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "slug": "openhands" }, { "grade": "B", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opencode.json", "name": "OpenCode", "score": 68.8, "shared": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "slug": "opencode" }, { "grade": "B", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.json", "name": "Qwen Code", "score": 68.7, "shared": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "slug": "qwen-code" }, { "grade": "B", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kilo-code-cli.json", "name": "Kilo Code CLI", "score": 68, "shared": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "slug": "kilo-code-cli" } ], "tool": { "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": 1317, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "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" ], "breakdown": [ { "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "effectiveWeight": 20, "score": 43, "points": 8.6, "reason": "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.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "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." }, { "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 55, "points": 8.94, "reason": "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.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "effectiveWeight": 16.25, "score": 35, "points": 5.69, "reason": "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.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "effectiveWeight": 17.5, "score": 33, "points": 5.78, "reason": "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.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 12.5, "score": 20, "points": 2.5, "reason": "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.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "weight": 10, "effectiveWeight": 0, "pending": true, "points": 0, "reason": "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." }, { "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 61, "points": 5.34, "reason": "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.", "checked": "2026-11-06" }, { "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "effectiveWeight": 8.75, "score": 55, "points": 4.81, "note": "editorial 47, provenance 62", "reason": "Proprietary, under terms from Verdent AI, Inc. that are clear on use and ownership (15). The privacy policy and security page agree that data stays in the US and that input isn't trained on without consent, and the security page lists subprocessors. The privacy policy gives no retention periods, names MiniMax as a provider the security list leaves out, and deletion is by email request (14). The credit bonus carries a promise of 15 days' notice, but Free Mode was retired on the day v2.18.0 shipped and no deprecation policy was found (6). Subprocessors and their locations are listed, and the domains the app calls are named, with event logging undescribed (12). 15+14+6+12 = 47.", "checked": "2026-11-06" } ], "assessment": { "date": "2026-11-06", "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "notes": { "ergonomics": "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.", "maintenance": "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.", "payments": "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.", "reliability": "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.", "schema": "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.", "security": "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.", "transparency": "Proprietary, under terms from Verdent AI, Inc. that are clear on use and ownership (15). The privacy policy and security page agree that data stays in the US and that input isn't trained on without consent, and the security page lists subprocessors. The privacy policy gives no retention periods, names MiniMax as a provider the security list leaves out, and deletion is by email request (14). The credit bonus carries a promise of 15 days' notice, but Free Mode was retired on the day v2.18.0 shipped and no deprecation policy was found (6). Subprocessors and their locations are listed, and the domains the app calls are named, with event logging undescribed (12). 15+14+6+12 = 47." }, "sources": [ { "what": "changelog", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/changelog", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Desktop docs overview", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Agent Mode (Markdown)", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/advanced-features/agent-mode.md", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "execution modes (archived 1.0 docs)", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent/execution-modes/overview", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "MCP integration (Markdown)", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/mcp.md", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "Bring Your Own Agent (Markdown)", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/byoa.md", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "instant messaging (Markdown)", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/core-features/instant-messaging.md", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "supported operating systems", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/supported-operating-systems.md", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "pricing", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/pricing", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "credits and plans", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/docs/account-billing/credits-and-plans", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "security", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/security", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "terms of use", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/terms", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "privacy policy", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/privacy", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "about us", "url": "https://www.verdent.ai/about-us", "seen": "2026-11-06" }, { "what": "RDAP for verdent.ai", "url": "https://rdap.org/domain/verdent.ai", "seen": "2026-11-06" } ], "openQuestions": [ "unchecked: founders and investors. Verdent's own pages name no person; SiliconANGLE (23 September 2025) names Zhijie Chen as founder and chief executive, and the vendor's BusinessWire release answered 403", "unchecked: whether the VS Code and JetBrains extensions share the desktop app's approval and telemetry behaviour, since their docs were not read in this pass", "unchecked: what log.verdent.ai receives and whether Privacy Mode is on by default", "The VS Code extension's install count and version on the marketplace were not read, because the marketplace answers through a POST API" ] }, "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 $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 39.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 35, "maintenance": 61, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 55, "security": 33, "transparency": 47 }, "provenanceScore": 62, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 }, "scoreHistory": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "grade": "E", "kind": "listed", "method": "0.7", "score": 39.7 } ] }, "connect": { "config": { "mcpServers": { "github": { "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}" } } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/verdent" }, "notable": [ "v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026 retired Free Mode and the free trial, ending the 100 welcome credits, while the pricing page FAQ read the same week still says the free trial includes 100 credits (https://www.verdent.ai/changelog, https://www.verdent.ai/pricing)", "BYOA lets Manager dispatch worker tasks to a local Claude Code or Codex CLI instead of Verdent's built-in agent, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys (https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/byoa)", "MCP servers are configured in ~/.verdent/mcp.json or a project .mcp.json in the usual mcpServers shape, with stdio examples (https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/mcp)", "Tasks can be sent from paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bots, which forward every message to Manager (https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/core-features/instant-messaging)", "The security page names AWS, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock, Parallel.ai, Jina and Stripe as subprocessors, all in the US, with zero data retention agreements stated for Vertex and Bedrock (https://www.verdent.ai/security)", "The docs under /docs/verdent/ are archived 1.0 pages, still served beside the current Desktop docs and marked as archived (https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent/getting-started/overview)" ], "area": "frameworks", "details": [ { "label": "Surface listed", "value": "Verdent Desktop (Manager), with the VS Code extension and browser edition named, read from verdent.ai (docs, changelog, pricing, security, terms, privacy and about pages) on 6 November 2026. Nothing was installed, no account was made and no task was run" }, { "label": "Interfaces", "value": "Desktop app for macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 (no Linux), Verdent for VS Code, a JetBrains plugin named in the footer and terms, and Verdent Cloud in the browser, which publishes web apps to *.verdent.app" }, { "label": "Modes", "value": "Agent Mode (the default) reads, writes and runs commands, with prompts for destructive operations, edits outside the expected scope and some tools. Plan Mode is read-only and writes a plan.md for review" }, { "label": "Parallel work", "value": "Manager splits a goal into subtasks and dispatches workers in parallel, each in its own git worktree, with a review column on a Kanban board" }, { "label": "Headless", "value": "No CLI, print mode, API or SDK found. Work is started from the app or from a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot" }, { "label": "Sandbox", "value": "No operating-system sandbox or network restriction documented. Workspace isolation is by git worktree, and the docs advise relying on git to roll back" }, { "label": "Data path", "value": "Requests carry conversation history and tool results to Verdent's AWS servers in the US, then to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex. Web search goes to Parallel.ai and page fetches to Jina. Event logging goes to log.verdent.ai, with no opt-out found" }, { "label": "Training", "value": "The privacy policy says input and output are not used for training without explicit consent. The security page refers to a Privacy Mode that, when off, allows training" }, { "label": "Releases", "value": "1.0.0 on 23 September 2025, 2.0.0 on 17 April 2026 and 2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, per the dated changelog" } ], "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, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Verdent AI, Inc.", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "verdent.ai, registered 2025-05-06 (1 year)", "points": 3, "max": 15, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "verdent.ai", "points": 15, "max": 15, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "read, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 3 clauses that cost points", "points": 2.3, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "read, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects", "points": 9.3, "max": 10, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": 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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## Facts\n\n| Field | Value |\n| --- | --- |\n| Vendor | Verdent AI, Inc. (https://www.verdent.ai) |\n| Kind | Agent harness |\n| Category | Agent harnesses (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/agent-harnesses) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key · 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. |\n| Pricing | Paid ($5 / mo) · 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. |\n| x402 | No · No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, pricing page, terms or changelog (checked 2026-11-06). Subscriptions and top-ups go through Stripe. |\n| Licence | Proprietary. The terms of use from Verdent AI, Inc. forbid reverse engineering or copying any component, and no source is published |\n| Docs | https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview |\n| llms.txt | not found |\n| Last release | 2026-10-29 |\n| Surface listed | Verdent Desktop (Manager), with the VS Code extension and browser edition named, read from verdent.ai (docs, changelog, pricing, security, terms, privacy and about pages) on 6 November 2026. Nothing was installed, no account was made and no task was run |\n| Interfaces | Desktop app for macOS 11 or later and 64-bit Windows 10 and 11 (no Linux), Verdent for VS Code, a JetBrains plugin named in the footer and terms, and Verdent Cloud in the browser, which publishes web apps to *.verdent.app |\n| Modes | Agent Mode (the default) reads, writes and runs commands, with prompts for destructive operations, edits outside the expected scope and some tools. Plan Mode is read-only and writes a plan.md for review |\n| Parallel work | Manager splits a goal into subtasks and dispatches workers in parallel, each in its own git worktree, with a review column on a Kanban board |\n| Headless | No CLI, print mode, API or SDK found. Work is started from the app or from a paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bot |\n| Sandbox | No operating-system sandbox or network restriction documented. Workspace isolation is by git worktree, and the docs advise relying on git to roll back |\n| Data path | Requests carry conversation history and tool results to Verdent's AWS servers in the US, then to Azure, Bedrock or Vertex. Web search goes to Parallel.ai and page fetches to Jina. Event logging goes to log.verdent.ai, with no opt-out found |\n| Training | The privacy policy says input and output are not used for training without explicit consent. The security page refers to a Privacy Mode that, when off, allows training |\n| Releases | 1.0.0 on 23 September 2025, 2.0.0 on 17 April 2026 and 2.18.0 on 29 October 2026, per the dated changelog |\n| Capabilities | agent.harness, agent.multi-agent, agent.mcp-client |\n| Tags | official, harness, coding-agent, closed-source, desktop, vscode, jetbrains, mcp, byok, paid-plans, no-sandbox |\n| JSON | https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/verdent.json |\n\n## Score breakdown (methodology v0.7, October 2026 research run)\n\nAssessed 2026-11-06 from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/#checklist). Confidence: medium. 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.\n\n| Category | Weight | This run | Score (0–100) | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% | 20 | 43 | 8.6 |\n| Performance | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% | 16.2 | 55 | 8.9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% | 16.2 | 35 | 5.7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% | 17.5 | 33 | 5.8 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% | 12.5 | 20 | 2.5 |\n| Task success | 10% | pending | pending | n/a |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% | 8.8 | 61 | 5.3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust (editorial 47, provenance 62) | 7% | 8.8 | 55 | 4.8 |\n| Negative events | up to −15 | up to −15 | 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 | -2 |\n| **Total** | | | | **39.7 → E** |\n\n### Why each score\n\n- Reliability 43 (checked 2026-11-06): 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- 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.\n- Schema \u0026 documentation 55 (checked 2026-11-06): 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- Agent ergonomics 35 (checked 2026-11-06): 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- Security \u0026 auth 33 (checked 2026-11-06): 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- Payments \u0026 pricing 20 (checked 2026-11-06): 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- 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.\n- Maintenance \u0026 community 61 (checked 2026-11-06): 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- Transparency \u0026 trust 55 (checked 2026-11-06): Proprietary, under terms from Verdent AI, Inc. that are clear on use and ownership (15). The privacy policy and security page agree that data stays in the US and that input isn't trained on without consent, and the security page lists subprocessors. The privacy policy gives no retention periods, names MiniMax as a provider the security list leaves out, and deletion is by email request (14). The credit bonus carries a promise of 15 days' notice, but Free Mode was retired on the day v2.18.0 shipped and no deprecation policy was found (6). Subprocessors and their locations are listed, and the domains the app calls are named, with event logging undescribed (12). 15+14+6+12 = 47.\n\nFix list, everything this grade says the listing lacks, the biggest gain first (17 items). What it covers is at https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/verdent.md (JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/fixes/verdent.json). The whole list for a coding agent comes from `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/fix-list` with `{\"listing\": \"verdent\", \"plan\": \"read\"}`, free while the beta runs\n\n### What we couldn't check\n\n- unchecked: founders and investors. Verdent's own pages name no person; SiliconANGLE (23 September 2025) names Zhijie Chen as founder and chief executive, and the vendor's BusinessWire release answered 403\n- unchecked: whether the VS Code and JetBrains extensions share the desktop app's approval and telemetry behaviour, since their docs were not read in this pass\n- unchecked: what log.verdent.ai receives and whether Privacy Mode is on by default\n- The VS Code extension's install count and version on the marketplace were not read, because the marketplace answers through a POST API\n\n### Sources\n\n- changelog: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/changelog\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- Desktop docs overview: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- Agent Mode (Markdown): \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/advanced-features/agent-mode.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- execution modes (archived 1.0 docs): \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent/execution-modes/overview\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- MCP integration (Markdown): \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/mcp.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- Bring Your Own Agent (Markdown): \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/byoa.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- instant messaging (Markdown): \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/core-features/instant-messaging.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- supported operating systems: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/supported-operating-systems.md\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- pricing: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/pricing\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- credits and plans: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/account-billing/credits-and-plans\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- security: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/security\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- terms of use: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/terms\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- privacy policy: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/privacy\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- about us: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/about-us\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n- RDAP for verdent.ai: \u003chttps://rdap.org/domain/verdent.ai\u003e (seen 2026-11-06)\n\n## Score history\n\nEvery 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/verdent/history.json\n\n- 2026-11-06: graded 39.7 E (methodology 0.7)\n\n## Who's behind it (provenance 62/100, checked 2026-11-06)\n\n| Check | Finding | Points |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Legal entity named | Verdent AI, Inc. | 20/20 |\n| Domain age | verdent.ai, registered 2025-05-06 (1 year) | 3/15 |\n| Endpoint on the vendor's domain | verdent.ai | 15/15 |\n| Terms of service | read, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 3 clauses that cost points | 2.3/10 |\n| Privacy policy | read, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects | 9.3/10 |\n| Status page | not found | 0/10 |\n| Changelog | published | 10/10 |\n| security.txt | not found | 0/10 |\n| People named | not researched yet | n/a |\n| Support route | a support address, help pages, a community | 5/5 |\n\nThe privacy policy names Verdent AI, Inc. as data controller, and the terms choose California law.\n\nThe terms forbid users to crawl, scrape or otherwise harvest data or information from the Services. Public pages were read once each.\n\nwww.verdent.ai/robots.txt allows all crawlers.\n\nRDAP gives verdent.ai a registration date of 6 May 2025.\n\n/.well-known/security.txt returns 404, and status.verdent.ai did not answer. No status page found.\n\nThe 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.\n\n### Terms and privacy, as read\n\nA reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. Not legal advice.\n\n**Terms of service** (https://www.verdent.ai/terms), read 2026-11-06, dated 2026-05-25, states 5 of the 7 things a reader expects.\n\n- To know. Says it may use customer content to train or improve models, and no opt-out was found (costs points). \"We may ask for your consent to use your Input to train the artificial intelligence models used for or in the provision of our Services to improve their performance.\"\n- To know. Restricts automated access (costs points). \"crawl, scrape, or otherwise harvest data or information from our Services;\"\n- To know. Says the terms or the service can change without notice (costs points). \"We may alter, suspend or discontinue our Services (or any part thereof) at any time and without prior notice.\"\n- To know. Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason. \"We may alter, suspend or discontinue our Services (or any part thereof) at any time and without prior notice.\"\n- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-05-25.\n- Names the governing law or courts. The law of the State of California.\n- States a limit on its liability. Capped at $50.00.\n- Not found in the text. Says how changes to the terms are announced.\n- Not found in the text. Refers to a service level or uptime commitment.\n\n**Privacy policy** (https://www.verdent.ai/privacy), read 2026-11-06, dated 2026-05-26, states 7 of the 8 things a reader expects.\n\n- Gives the date it was last updated. Last updated 2026-05-26.\n- Says how long data is kept. For as long as needed, with no period named.\n- Not found in the text. Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising.\n- Gives a privacy contact. hi@verdent.ai.\n- Says where data is transferred or stored. Relies on standard contractual clauses.\n\n## Humans behind the project (researched 2026-11-06 from public pages, not part of the grade)\n\n### Key people\n\n- No people named yet.\n- Note: verdent.ai's about page (read 6 November 2026) names no person, and the docs, terms, privacy and security pages name none either. SiliconANGLE's launch report of 23 September 2025 names Zhijie Chen as founder and chief executive, but no first-hand page confirms it (the vendor's BusinessWire release answered 403), so nobody is listed. Investors were looked for on verdent.ai and in one web search; a newsletter reports Sequoia China and Tencent, which no company statement or reputable outlet read confirms, so no investors are recorded. Rechecked on 6 November 2026: verdent.ai's about pages (English and Chinese) and blog posts name no founder or investor, and a second search found reports naming Zhijie Chen and Xiaochun Liu as co-founders only in the BusinessWire release and secondary coverage, and funding only in a newsletter and a secondary-market site, neither of which the rules allow.\n- Verdent AI, Inc.: X https://x.com/verdent_ai\n\n### Getting support\n\n- Discord: https://discord.gg/NGjXEZcbJq\n- Support email: support@verdent.ai\n- Help: https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/reference/support-resources\n- Community (Reddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/Verdent/\n- Sources: https://www.verdent.ai/about-us, https://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/getting-started/overview, https://www.verdent.ai/security, https://www.verdent.ai/privacy, https://www.verdent.ai/terms\n\n## Live (updated 2026-11-07 15:59 UTC)\n\n- security.txt: none\n- Watching changelog \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/changelog\u003e\n- Watching privacy \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/privacy\u003e\n- Watching terms \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/terms\u003e\n- Always current: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/live/verdent.json\n\n## Probe metrics\n\nNot 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.\n\n## Prices\n\n| Item | Price | Unit | Note |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Lite plan | $5 | per month (plan) | Eco Mode models and light usage |\n| Starter plan | $19 | per month (plan) | 320 credits a month, 480 with the limited-time bonus |\n| Pro plan | $59 | per month (plan) | 1,000 credits a month, 1,500 with the bonus |\n| Max plan | $179 | per month (plan) | 3,000 credits a month, 4,500 with the bonus |\n| Credit | $0.059 | per credit | About $0.059, charged at provider token prices with no markup per the pricing page |\n\nAcross all listings: https://www.anchorterminal.com/prices/index.md\n\n## Strengths\n\n- Plan Mode is read-only and writes a plan.md for review before Agent Mode makes changes\n- Parallel workers each run in their own git worktree, with a review column before work is accepted\n- BYOA runs workers on a local Claude Code or Codex CLI, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys\n- Plan, top-up and per-credit prices are public, charged at provider token rates with no markup per the pricing page\n- Every current docs page has a Markdown twin, and the changelog is dated by version\n\n## Weaknesses\n\n- No CLI, print mode, API or SDK, so a pipeline can't start or read a run except through a paired chat bot\n- No sandbox or network restriction documented, and the actions that need approval aren't listed\n- Free Mode and the free trial ended on 29 October 2026, while the pricing page FAQ still promises 100 trial credits\n- Event logging to log.verdent.ai has no documented opt-out, and the privacy policy gives no retention periods\n- SOC 2 and ISO/IEC 42001 are being pursued, not held, and there is no bug bounty or security.txt\n\n\n\n## Before you call it (notes for agents)\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 $0.059 each, because there is no free allowance since 29 October 2026\n\n## Connect\n\nMCP client configuration:\n\n```json\n{\n \"mcpServers\": {\n \"github\": {\n \"args\": [\n \"-y\",\n \"@modelcontextprotocol/server-github\"\n ],\n \"command\": \"npx\",\n \"env\": {\n \"GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN\": \"${GITHUB_TOKEN}\"\n }\n }\n }\n}\n```\n\n## Similar tools\n\nRanked by shared capabilities, then score. Same-category tools with no shared capability key are listed last.\n\n| Tool | Grade | Score | Rank | Shared capabilities | x402 | Markdown |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| goose | BB | 71.3 | 165 | agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goose.md |\n| AXLR | BB | 70.6 | 197 | agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.md |\n| OpenHands | BB | 70.3 | 206 | agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.md |\n| OpenCode | B | 68.8 | 269 | agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/opencode.md |\n| Qwen Code | B | 68.7 | 273 | agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-code.md |\n| Kilo Code CLI | B | 68 | 295 | agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent | no | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kilo-code-cli.md |\n\n## Panel reviews (0)\n\nReviewed by the Anchor panel (https://www.anchorterminal.com/reviewers/index.md): .\n\nDesk 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\n\n## Notable\n\n- v2.18.0 on 29 October 2026 retired Free Mode and the free trial, ending the 100 welcome credits, while the pricing page FAQ read the same week still says the free trial includes 100 credits (source: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/changelog, https://www.verdent.ai/pricing\u003e)\n- BYOA lets Manager dispatch worker tasks to a local Claude Code or Codex CLI instead of Verdent's built-in agent, and BYOK takes Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter keys (source: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/byoa\u003e)\n- MCP servers are configured in ~/.verdent/mcp.json or a project .mcp.json in the usual mcpServers shape, with stdio examples (source: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/configuration/mcp\u003e)\n- Tasks can be sent from paired Telegram, Slack or Feishu bots, which forward every message to Manager (source: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent-manager/core-features/instant-messaging\u003e)\n- The security page names AWS, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock, Parallel.ai, Jina and Stripe as subprocessors, all in the US, with zero data retention agreements stated for Vertex and Bedrock (source: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/security\u003e)\n- The docs under /docs/verdent/ are archived 1.0 pages, still served beside the current Desktop docs and marked as archived (source: \u003chttps://www.verdent.ai/docs/verdent/getting-started/overview\u003e)\n\n- #53 of 56 in 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## Compare\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-verdent.md): D 46 vs E 39.7\n- [Aider vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-verdent.md): D 49.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Amp vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-verdent.md): C 55.5 vs E 39.7\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 54.7 vs E 39.7\n- [Auggie CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-verdent.md): D 49.3 vs E 39.7\n- [AXLR vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-verdent.md): BB 70.6 vs E 39.7\n- [Claude Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-verdent.md): D 53.6 vs E 39.7\n- [Cline vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-verdent.md): D 52.8 vs E 39.7\n- [Conductor vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/conductor-vs-verdent.md): E 41.3 vs E 39.7\n- [Crush vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-verdent.md): D 49.8 vs E 39.7\n- [Cursor CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-verdent.md): F 35.4 vs E 39.7\n- [DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-verdent.md): D 48.5 vs E 39.7\n- [dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-verdent.md): E 42.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Devin vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-verdent.md): C 57.3 vs E 39.7\n- [Droid CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 57.2 vs E 39.7\n- [Pi vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-verdent.md): B 62.6 vs E 39.7\n- [Emdash vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/emdash-vs-verdent.md): D 53.9 vs E 39.7\n- [Gemini CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-verdent.md): B 64.8 vs E 39.7\n- [GitHub Copilot CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 56 vs E 39.7\n- [goose vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-verdent.md): BB 71.3 vs E 39.7\n- [Harness² vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-verdent.md): E 42 vs E 39.7\n- [HarnessRouter vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-verdent.md): D 47.7 vs E 39.7\n- [Jules vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-verdent.md): E 45.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Junie CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-verdent.md): D 49 vs E 39.7\n- [Kilo Code CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-verdent.md): B 68 vs E 39.7\n- [Kimi Code CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 58.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Kiro CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 59.8 vs E 39.7\n- [Letta vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/letta-vs-verdent.md): C 59.7 vs E 39.7\n- [mini-swe-agent vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-verdent.md): C 59 vs E 39.7\n- [MiniMax Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-verdent.md): B 66.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Mistral Vibe CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 58.4 vs E 39.7\n- [Muse Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-verdent.md): C 56.2 vs E 39.7\n- [OpenAI Agents API vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-agents-api-vs-verdent.md): BB 73.3 vs E 39.7\n- [OpenAI Codex vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-verdent.md): BB 73.5 vs E 39.7\n- [OpenCode vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-verdent.md): B 68.8 vs E 39.7\n- [OpenHands vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-verdent.md): BB 70.3 vs E 39.7\n- [Orca vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orca-vs-verdent.md): C 57.4 vs E 39.7\n- [Paseo vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paseo-vs-verdent.md): B 62.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Prime Agent vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-verdent.md): C 56.8 vs E 39.7\n- [Qoder CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-verdent.md): C 59.5 vs E 39.7\n- [Qwen Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-verdent.md): B 68.7 vs E 39.7\n- [Mirror CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-verdent.md): C 57.2 vs E 39.7\n- [Rovo Dev CLI vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rovo-dev-cli-vs-verdent.md): E 44.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Sculptor vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sculptor-vs-verdent.md): D 53.1 vs E 39.7\n- [T3 Code vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/t3-code-vs-verdent.md): D 51.9 vs E 39.7\n- [Traycer vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/traycer-vs-verdent.md): C 57 vs E 39.7\n- [Verdent vs Vibe-Trading](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-vibe-trading.md): E 39.7 vs C 57.8\n- [Verdent vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/verdent-vs-warp.md): E 39.7 vs C 57.6\n- [Clawboo vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/clawboo-vs-verdent.md): C 61.4 vs E 39.7\n- [CLI Manager vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-verdent.md): B 66.4 vs E 39.7\n- [Harness vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-verdent.md): C 60.9 vs E 39.7\n- [OpenMausBot vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openmausbot-vs-verdent.md): B 65.4 vs E 39.7\n- [Paperclip vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-verdent.md): D 52.6 vs E 39.7\n- [Parallax vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-verdent.md): E 38.1 vs E 39.7\n- [Unstoppable vs Verdent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/unstoppable-vs-verdent.md): F 34.7 vs E 39.7\n\n## Verify this listing\n\nFor the vendor. 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