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Pick the agent, not the marketing.

Agent runtimes do the work. Coordination harnesses connect their sessions. Know which layer you are choosing, what it can touch, and what still needs a human in the loop.

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Manual intake. Primary sources first. A documented claim is not a test. We show what is on file, leave the gaps visible, and correct the record when the evidence changes.

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Kind separates agent runtimes from coordination harnesses. Job is the work. Autonomy applies to the runtime doing it; coordination inherits no autonomy rating.

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Qwen Code

An open-source coding agent for terminal and editor work, with optional headless runs and persistent Goals.

Good fit

You want repo work in a terminal or editor, and can explicitly choose the approval mode and provider before it starts writing.

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Claude Code

Anthropic's coding agent for repo files, commands and git workflows; optional headless runs use configured permissions, not a universal human gate.

Good fit

You want a repo-aware coding agent for interactive work or a bounded headless script, with tool permissions chosen for the job.

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Goose

AAIF's local, general-purpose agent with desktop, CLI, API and MCP tools.

Good fit

You want a local general-purpose agent with MCP tools, reusable recipes and an optional schedule whose history you can inspect.

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OpenCode

Open-source coding agent for terminal, desktop and IDE sessions, with configurable tool permissions.

Good fit

You want a session-led coding agent and are willing to match permission and plugin configuration to your chosen OpenCode generation.

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Browser Use

Python browser agent, CLI controls for your existing agent, and a separate fully hosted agent API.

Good fit

You want to customize a Python browser agent, give your existing agent browser controls, or hand a task to the hosted V4 agent.

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OpenAI Codex

OpenAI's coding agent CLI (and related app-server path). Tool-using, session-gated.

Good fit

You want task-led coding in a local CLI, with explicit sandbox settings for scripts or CI.

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Hermes Agent

Nous Research agent runtime with skills, memory, and multi-surface gateways.

Good fit

You want reusable skills and memory across chat surfaces, plus scheduled work whose tools, outputs and failures you own.

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Cline

Open-source coding harness across IDE, CLI and desktop, with optional scheduled work and hosted browser agents.

Good fit

You want an open coding agent in the editor, terminal, or desktop, model-agnostic.

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OpenClaw

Self-hosted agent gateway with channels, cron, and write-tools. Failure has an operator.

Good fit

You need an always-on operator agent on your own machine, with a real owner when it fails.

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Claude in Chrome

Anthropic's Chrome-side Claude that can work in the browser with enterprise transcript controls.

Good fit

You want Claude operating in the browser with enterprise transcript controls.

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Cursor

AI IDE with local and cloud agents, plus a coordinator for shared project context.

Good fit

You want the agent inside the editor, with optional cloud/self-hosted machines.

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Anthropic Managed Agents

Anthropic-hosted agent sessions with permission policy, Connect, and CLI hooks.

Good fit

You want Anthropic to host the agent session and permission policy.

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OpenAI Agents API

Public-beta API for building agents on OpenAI, alongside GPT Live and project-key controls.

Good fit

You are building an agent on OpenAI’s Agents API, not buying a packaged runtime.

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Anthropic Computer Use

Anthropic's computer-use / browser-use agent path for GUI and web tasks.

Good fit

You want Anthropic’s hosted computer-use path, not a local Browser Use install.

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Pipecat

Open-source real-time voice-agent framework.

Good fit

You are building a voice/multimodal agent and will own the pipeline.

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mini-SWE-agent

A bash-first coding CLI with a human-started session and confirm mode by default. Confirmation isn't a sandbox: the normal local environment runs commands with your host-user access.

Good fit

You want a local coding session with confirm, yolo and human modes, plus a saved trajectory you can inspect.

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Claude Tag

Anthropic's Slack-native shared Claude for scoped tools, persistent channel context, routines, and asynchronous team work.

Good fit

You already run Claude Team or Enterprise and want a shared Slack agent with scoped access, routines, and an organization spend limit.

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CellCog

Managed AI employees with persistent inboxes and boards, scheduled shifts, and user-configured signoff rules.

Good fit

You want a hosted agent to hold a standing role, retain work across shifts, and return decisions for approval rather than wait for the next prompt.

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CUA

Open-source computer-use agent infrastructure (TryCUA).

Good fit

You are standing up computer-use infrastructure yourself.

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ZoomMate

Zoom's AI teammate for meeting context, agentic retrieval, task completion, custom agents, and workflows across Zoom Workplace and connected tools.

Good fit

You want user-directed task work in Zoom, with optional event- or schedule-triggered workflows and deliberately configured approval steps.

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Aider

Terminal coding agent that maps the repo and edits with git.

Good fit

You want a terminal coding partner with a repo map, reviewable git changes and editor-comment triggers.

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smolagents

Hugging Face's small code-agent library.

Good fit

You want a small Hugging Face code-agent library to embed.

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Dash

Process Street's shared operations teammate for Slack, Teams and the web, with configurable tool approvals and optional scheduled autonomy.

Good fit

You want reports and business-tool actions with per-operation Auto, Ask or Off controls, rather than a fixed approval rule for every write.

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Carly

Email- and calendar-native operations agents with persistent memory, scheduled tasks, and connected business workflows. Vendor guides also document inbound phone work and scheduled briefing calls.

Good fit

You want a persistent operations assistant that can work through your existing email and calendar, including recurring follow-up and scheduling. You also want vendor-documented phone access to connected tools or scheduled briefing calls with follow-up questions and an emailed rundown if missed.

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Lindy

A hosted personal and Slack teammate for connected tools, meetings and optional routines, with write guardrails limited to shared Slack threads.

Good fit

You can configure integration-wide write rules for shared Slack work and separately review private-surface actions, connected-account authority and routine delivery.

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Hyperagent

Hosted agents for attended research and building, with optional schedules, Live Mode and event-driven work under workspace and knowledge controls.

Good fit

You want to shape work in an attended thread, then add a bounded trigger and deliberately widen its tool, account and knowledge access.

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Agent Zero

A self-hosted Linux workbench with chat, browser, desktop and file/code tools; optional scheduled work still needs an operator watching the results.

Good fit

You want coding and research in one Docker/Web UI workspace, with project memory and an optional bridge to your host files.

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Factory Droid

A coding CLI with risk-based approvals and optional headless Droid Exec runs for scripts and CI.

Good fit

You want an interactive coding agent with explicit command policy, plus a read-only-by-default task runner you can opt into edits and CI writes.

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Devin Cloud

Delegate coding work to cloud sessions that can push branches and open PRs. Configured automations add scheduled or event-driven work; they don't remove your responsibility for spending, permissions and review.

Good fit

You want reviewable branch/PR work, or configured automations that start new sessions or feed events into an existing one, with activity logs and optional failure email.

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Reason Network

A coordination harness: team directory and message bus across machines and existing agent sessions, not a standalone worker or another Reason Agent runtime.

Good fit

You need to find the teammate session working on a repo or branch and send it context or a small text file without replacing its agent runtime.

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OpenBot

Local-first Electron workspace for persistent provider-backed agents, queues and delegation. A full-access development preview, not an agent filesystem sandbox; current code is noncommercial source-available.

Good fit

You want human-assigned coding or ops work with persistent agents, channels and delegation, and accept the preview's full local access. Check the noncommercial license and provider terms before choosing it for business or shared use.

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OpenBot (CopilotKit)

Alpha agent-platform template with AG-UI coworkers and computer tools, not a finished managed product. The local example admits every request as one administrator; fix sign-in before sharing it.

Good fit

You want a runnable starting point you can customize, and can own the stack. Replace the single-user example with real sign-in and proper secrets before anyone else can reach it. MIT governs repository code; required CopilotKit Intelligence service/licensing and model access are separate. Exact costs and entitlements remain unassessed.

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Rakazo

Beta teammate runtime with Pi sessions, computer tools and web, Electron and mobile clients. Team bots share a computer's trust boundary; separate folders and browser profiles don't isolate untrusted bots.

Good fit

You want persistent conversations plus browser, terminal and file work, with optional voice. Use Team Computers only for mutually trusted work; use separate computers when workloads need isolation. Treat trusted local-computer mode as host access, not a sandbox.

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