| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 78 | 58 |
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| Confidence | medium | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 1 of 7 | No. 6 of 7 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 91 | 69 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 75 | 56 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 63 | 46 |
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| Community posts sampled | 9 | 21 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 12 | Crowd cooler by 9 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 78k | 85k |
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| npm weekly downloads | n/e | 27k |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported users | n/e | n/e |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 96 | 10 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | not listed | not listed |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 3 | 6 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | B |
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| Permission model | C | C |
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| Data access scope | B | B |
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| Data storage | A | A |
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| Data retention & training | n/e | n/e |
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| Incident history | B | C |
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| Compliance | C | D |
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| Transparency | A | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free | Free |
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| Plans | - Free (open source): Free
- Enterprise: Custom
| - Open source, self-hosted: Free
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| Product |
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| Category | Orchestrators & meta-harnesses | Orchestrators & meta-harnesses |
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| Maker | Stably AI | Paperclip (paperclipai) |
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| Licence | MIT | MIT |
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| Use it via | Desktop app, Mobile app, CLI | Web app, CLI, API |
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| Runs on | macos, windows, linux | macos, linux, windows, web |
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| Models it drives | any terminal agent: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Grok, Amp, Goose, Hermes Agent and others | Claude (via Claude Code), GPT (via Codex), Gemini (via Gemini CLI), Cursor, any agent reachable by CLI or HTTP heartbeat |
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| Key features | - Parallel agents, each in its own git worktree; fan one prompt across several agents and compare
- Works with any CLI agent (30+ listed)
- Terminal splits with persistent scrollback; built-in editor and diff annotation sent back to the agent
- Embedded Chromium browser with 'design mode' element capture
- GitHub and Linear integration; SSH worktrees and remote Orca servers
- Orca CLI and orchestration skills so agents can drive Orca
- iOS and Android companion apps
- Claude/Codex account switching and usage tracking
| - Org chart of agents with roles, reporting lines and per-agent permissions
- Ticket-based task system with atomic checkout and goal ancestry
- Scheduled heartbeats and routines (cron, webhook, API triggers)
- Per-agent/project budgets with hard stops and cost tracking
- Board approval gates for hires, strategy and spend; audit log
- Adapters for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor/Gemini CLI, bash and HTTP bots (e.g. OpenClaw)
- Multi-company isolation in one deployment; export/import of company templates
- Isolated execution workspaces via git worktrees
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Session/status sidebar for many concurrent agents across repos (Reddit r/ClaudeCode users)
- Worktree-per-agent model and diff review make comparing parallel attempts straightforward (Chancay, Margrop, HN users)
- Very active development; free and open source (HN, Reddit)
| - Structured hierarchy, handoffs and task tracking for many agents (Villela, Reddit users)
- Useful for bootstrapping larger projects and drafts quickly (Ganglani, Villela)
- Free, MIT-licensed and self-hosted
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| Criticised for | - Performance complaints: slow editor, lag in remote work, high CPU (HN, Reddit)
- Experimental chat UI and mobile input reported as buggy (Reddit)
- Launches agents with their permission-bypass flags by default
- Parallel agents multiply token spend (Margrop)
| - Heavy token consumption; users report subscription windows exhausted quickly (Reddit, Better Stack video)
- Marketing of 'zero-human companies' overstates what it can do (Ganglani, r/AI_Agents)
- Setup and adapter bugs; runaway retries hard to stop (r/PaperclipAI, HN)
- Repeated critical security advisories in 2026, and adapters skip agent permission prompts by default
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 3 | 4 |
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