BrigadevsOuroboros
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Brigade
spinabot · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
5.73 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.2
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 5.5
“Self-hosted agents with shared long-term memory that can execute terminal commands and browse, but without a sandbox.”
Ouroboros
Q00 · Agent harness
OSSMCP
Panel
6.01 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.8
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 6.7
- Longevity
- 5.5
“It installs into fourteen different agent runtimes, so whichever agent you chose, it will still ask you what you actually meant.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Brigade | Ouroboros |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | NoEditing is delegated to the host agent runtime; Ouroboros documents no file-editing tool of its own. |
| Git operations | No | Yes`ooo publish` drives the gh CLI, and brownfield mode defaults to working in a repository worktree. |
| Browser control | Yes | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, Llama, Ollama, OpenRouter, OrcaRouter, Groq | via host agent runtime, LiteLLM, DeepSeek |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | YesThrough the LiteLLM adapter with per-stage model pinning, which reaches any endpoint LiteLLM supports including local servers. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | free |
| Starts at | n/a | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 11,116 | 6,166 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Brigade | Ouroboros | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.5 | 5.8 | Brigade — Brigade is a powerful self-hosted agent framework for tinkerers, but its lack of a sandbox makes it a risky choice for production workflows. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 5.5 | Brigade — Brigade claims agentic behavior but lacks a sandbox, exposing the host system to any code the agents decide to run. |
| El Profesor | 4.5 | 6.0 | Ouroboros — An ambiguity score and an ontology similarity threshold govern every decision, and neither has a published scale, validation or worked example. |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 5.8 | Ouroboros — Sponsorship is the funding model and one named individual is the vendor, which prices the roadmap at whatever the maintainer's enthusiasm is worth this year. |
| La Jefa | 4.3 | 5.8 | Ouroboros — Free for sixty and no headless mode, so the tool that exists to gate work cannot itself be a gate in our pipeline, and Windows support is marked experimental. |
| El Hacker | 8.0 | 7.5 | Brigade — Brigade is a proper self-hosted agent harness, offering real ownership with its MIT license, MCP support, and broad model compatibility. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.