Agent Rank breakdown
Agent Rank
68/ 100
- Autonomy fit
- 8
- Capabilities
- 4
- Integrations
- 4
- Pricing value
- 10
- Polish & maturity
- 5
- Verifiability
- 10
Auto-computed from autonomy, capabilities, integrations, pricing, maturity and editorial verification. Updated every deploy. How is this computed?
Capabilities
- Code
- Tool use
Integrations
- Version control
- GitHub
- Terminal / shell
- Shell
Pricing tiers
Open source
Free
CLI-native engineers
- +Apache-2.0 binary
- +BYO OpenAI / Anthropic key
- +Composable from Makefiles + scripts
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Pros & cons
Pros
- +Zero-install terminal workflow — agent where engineers already live
- +Open source under permissive license; auditable end-to-end
- +Ideal for one-shot refactors, audits, and migrations
Cons
- −No long-running session UI; not built for hour-long autonomous work
- −Less polished than IDE-native alternatives
- −You wire the model key + handle rate limits
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