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14 guides. 10 radar.

Field tested / source verified

Typed receipts. May carry a verdict.

Radar

Discovery, not a verdict.

Field guides

14 strict entries

Coding harnessSource verified

Paul Gauthier · stable

Aider

Git-native terminal pair-programmer. BYOK, automatic commits, no IDE lock-in.

local

from $0/moship
Coding harnessSource verified

Sourcegraph · beta

Amp

Sourcegraph agentic coding harness with orb-hours and optional ChatGPT/Grok attachment.

managed · hybrid

from $20/mosituational
Coding harnessSource verified

Anthropic · stable

Claude Code

Anthropic terminal coding harness: edits, runs tests, and uses git inside the repo.

local · hybrid

from $17–$20/moship
Coding harnessSource verified

Cline · stable

Cline

Open-source VS Code agent that plans, edits, and runs commands in the editor.

local

from $0/mosituational
Coding harnessSource verified

Anysphere · stable

Cursor

AI-first editor (VS Code fork) with agent mode, tab completions, and a headless CLI.

local · managed

from $0/moship
Coding harnessSource verified

Block / AAIF · beta

Goose

Open local agent from Block: recipes, MCP, BYOK, desktop and CLI.

local

from $0/mosituational
Work agentSource verified

SpaceXAI / Cursor · beta

Grok Bot

Managed AI teammates with persistent cloud computers, shared routines, and parallel work.

managed

from $200/mosituational
Coding harnessSource verified

SpaceXAI · beta

Grok Build

Open-source terminal coding harness with TUI, headless automation, ACP, plugins, and sandbox controls.

local · hybrid

from $0/mosituational
Personal agentSource verified

Nous Research · beta

Hermes Agent

MIT-licensed personal and super-agent with persistent memory, messaging, schedules, subagents, and a learning loop.

local · self-hosted · hybrid

from $0/mosituational
Coding harnessSource verified

Kilo · beta

Kilo Code

Open BYOK coding harness spanning IDE, CLI, and cloud routing.

local · hybrid

from $0/mosituational
Coding harnessSource verified

OpenAI · stable

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI coding harness spanning terminal CLI, IDE, and cloud tasks on ChatGPT plans.

local · hybrid · managed

from $20/mosituational
Personal agentSource verified

OpenClaw Foundation · beta

OpenClaw

Open-source personal agent that runs on your devices and works through chat channels, tools, skills, and schedules.

local · self-hosted · hybrid

from $0/mosituational
Coding harnessSource verified

anomalyco · beta

OpenCode

Open-source coding harness with TUI, headless serve, and an OpenAPI control surface.

local

from $0/moship
Coding harnessSource verified

Mario Zechner · beta

Pi

Minimal open coding-agent toolkit: TUI, SDK, RPC, extend instead of feature-bloat.

local

from $0/mosituational

Radar

Obscure, early, or insufficiently reproduced. Every card links the canonical project; none carries a verdict.

Work agentRadar

ByteDance · beta

DeerFlow

Super-agent harness for long-horizon research and production tasks using skills, memory, sandboxes, and subagents.

self-hosted · hybrid

Personal agentRadar

NEAR AI · experimental

IronClaw

Security-oriented personal-agent project using isolated execution and a heavier self-hosted architecture.

self-hosted

Control planeRadar

LibreFang community · experimental

LibreFang

Community-governed agent control-plane fork exploring an alternative governance path to OpenFang.

local · self-hosted

Personal agentRadar

NanoCo AI · experimental

NanoClaw

Small container-oriented personal agent with a deliberately narrower surface than full agent operating systems.

local · self-hosted

Personal agentRadar

NullClaw · experimental

NullClaw

Zig personal-agent experiment focused on an unusually small runtime and portable local deployment.

local · self-hosted

Control planeRadar

RightNow AI · experimental

OpenFang

Agent operating-system project combining autonomous workers, schedules, tools, and a multi-agent control plane.

local · self-hosted

Personal agentRadar

Miosa · experimental

OSA

Local system-agent project packaging model flexibility and computer access behind a guided installer.

local

Personal agentRadar

Sipeed · experimental

PicoClaw

Tiny personal-agent runtime aimed at old phones, single-board computers, and other constrained edge hardware.

local · self-hosted

Control planeRadar

TinyAGI · experimental

TinyAGI

Multi-team, multi-channel orchestration project aimed at turning agent groups into a small autonomous company.

self-hosted

Personal agentRadar

ZeroClaw Labs · experimental

ZeroClaw

Rust personal-agent runtime exploring a single-binary path across providers, channels, memory, and tools.

local · self-hosted

Layers represented

Coding harness

Works inside repositories and runs code, commands, tools, and review loops.

Control plane

Supervises several agents, harness sessions, schedules, and handoffs.

Personal agent

Persistent single-operator agent with memory, schedules, tools, and chat channels.

Work agent

Managed teammate that owns longer business workflows, often on its own cloud computer.