| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 70 | 58 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 2 of 7 | No. 6 of 7 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 76 | 69 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 72 | 56 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 60 | 46 |
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| Community posts sampled | 18 | 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 | 15k | 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 | 29 | 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 | 6 | 6 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | A | B |
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| Permission model | B | 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 | A | C |
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| Compliance | A | D |
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| Transparency | B | A |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free, paid from $20 | Free |
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| Plans | - Free: Free
- Pro: $20 / monthly
- 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 | Superset Inc. | Paperclip (paperclipai) |
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| Licence | Elastic-2.0 | MIT |
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| Use it via | Desktop app, CLI, MCP server, API, Mobile app | Web app, CLI, API |
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| Runs on | macos, linux | macos, linux, windows, web |
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| Models it drives | Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, any terminal-based coding agent | 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 | - One git worktree, branch, terminal set and port range per workspace
- Runs any CLI coding agent unmodified in a persistent terminal (sessions survive app restarts via a background daemon)
- Built-in diff viewer, PR review and CI check view
- In-app browser pane with per-workspace port detection and a Design mode for UI edits
- Agent status sidebar with notifications when an agent needs attention
- Scheduled automations, CLI, TypeScript SDK and MCP server
- Remote access to workspaces on other machines and an iPhone app (Pro)
| - 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 | - Terminal-first design lets users run the real Claude Code/Codex CLIs with their latest features, which reviewers contrasted with Conductor's custom chat UI
- Supports many agents rather than one or two vendors
- Persistent terminals that survive app updates or closing were singled out by users
| - 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 | - Some users reported terminal rendering glitches and freezes
- Reviewers and users found the PR/workspace flow less polished than Conductor and the UI growing 'bloated'
- Linear and some team features are gated behind the $20/user/month Pro plan; sign-in to the vendor cloud is required for the hosted build
- No Windows build; Linux build is experimental
| - 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 | 5 | 4 |
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