Atomic Agentvsgraff
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Atomic Agent
AtomicBot · Terminal agent
#187OSSMCP
Panel
6.02 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.2
- Usefulness
- 6.0
- Cost
- 8.7
- Longevity
- 4.3
“It keeps a browser profile as a local file, so your agent now has browsing history and you can read it.”
graff
justrach · Terminal agent
#189OSSMCP
Panel
6.01 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 8.0
- Longevity
- 4.7
“The desktop app talks straight to the ObjC runtime rather than ship Electron, which is a grudge with a build system.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Atomic Agent | graff |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | Yes | YesThe desktop app has an experimental browser pane with an Annotate mode for pinning page elements into the conversation. |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | YesThe desktop app runs several chat tabs, each backed by its own graff acp process. |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | llama.cpp, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, Anthropic, OpenAI | existing AI subscriptions |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | NOASSERTION |
| GitHub stars | 2,564 | 279 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Atomic Agent | graff | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.5 | graff — Pick it if you want an agent that is one 3.7MB file and nothing else; pick a heavier tool when the feature you need matters more than the download. |
| El Crítico | 5.5 | 6.0 | graff — The sign-in promise rests on subscriptions the documentation never enumerates, so nobody can tell before installing whether the plan they already pay for is one of them. |
| El Profesor | 5.5 | 6.8 | graff — Annotate mode pins a page element into the next message with its role, accessible name and selector, which is a structured reference rather than a screenshot. |
| La Inversora | 5.5 | 5.3 | Atomic Agent — A permissive licence, no price, no hosted tier and a first release five months ago, which makes this a bet on one small team continuing to care. |
| La Jefa | 5.5 | 5.3 | Atomic Agent — Nothing per seat and nothing leaves the workstation, which is the shortest data review I will run, and there is no console over sixty of them. |
| El Hacker | 8.0 | 6.3 | Atomic Agent — MIT, a llama.cpp build underneath, MCP servers wired in, and it embeds over HTTP or as a Tauri sidecar, so it becomes a component in things I build. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.