Mr. Technology / Agent desk
Pick the agent, not the marketing.
You do not need another list with 500 agent logos. You need to know what a product can actually do, what it can touch, and what still needs a human in the loop.
Desk standard
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.
Job is the work. Autonomy is how it normally runs. Evidence tells you how much of the brief we can stand behind.
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.
Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent CLI. Reads project instructions, calls tools, and stays human-gated per session.
Good fit
You want a coding agent that reads the repo, edits, and runs commands in a human-gated session.
OpenAI Codex
OpenAI's coding agent CLI (and related app-server path). Tool-using, session-gated.
Good fit
You want OpenAI’s coding agent in a terminal or ChatGPT, session-gated.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pipecat
Open-source real-time voice-agent framework.
Good fit
You are building a voice/multimodal agent and will own the pipeline.
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.
CellCog
Managed AI employees with named roles, persistent inboxes and boards, scheduled shifts, and approval-bound permissions.
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.
CUA
Open-source computer-use agent infrastructure (TryCUA).
Good fit
You are standing up computer-use infrastructure yourself.
Cline
Open-source IDE coding agent, often compared with Cursor.
Good fit
You want an open coding agent in the editor, terminal, or desktop, model-agnostic.
Browser Use
Open-source browser agent harness (CDP/CLI) distinct from Anthropic's hosted computer-use.
Good fit
You want your own agent to drive a real browser.
Aider
Terminal coding agent that maps the repo and edits with git.
Good fit
You want a local terminal pair-programmer with a repo map and git commits.
Hermes Agent
Nous Research agent runtime with skills, memory, and multi-surface gateways.
Good fit
You want skills, memory, and a gateway across chat surfaces, including unattended jobs.
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 run Zoom Workplace and want conversation context to turn into tasks, post-meeting deliverables, and governed multi-step workflows.
Goose
Block's open-source agent for local tool-using workflows.
Good fit
You want a local general-purpose agent with MCP extensions, not just a coder.
smolagents
Hugging Face's small code-agent library.
Good fit
You want a small Hugging Face code-agent library to embed.
Dash
Process Street's shared Slack and Teams teammate for reports, connected-tool work, and approval-gated writes.
Good fit
You want a shared operations teammate in team chat that can prepare recurring reports and hold every send, post, write, or spend for approval.
Carly
Email- and calendar-native operations agents with persistent memory, scheduled tasks, and connected business workflows.
Good fit
You want a persistent operations assistant that can work through your existing email and calendar, including recurring follow-up and scheduling.
Lindy
A managed AI teammate for Slack, connected tools, meetings, schedules, and approval-gated external actions.
Good fit
You want a shared Slack teammate that can build recurring work across company tools while holding outbound and other external-impact actions for a named approver.
Hyperagent
A hosted fleet of agents that can research, build, deliver, and keep assigned work current across team channels, webhooks, and schedules.
Good fit
You want a managed fleet that can own an assignment over time, show its work, and publish or update deliverables where the team already works.