graffvsTianshu Harness
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
graff
justrach · Terminal agent
#189OSSMCP
Panel
6.02 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.”
Tianshu Harness
Tianshu · Terminal agent
#145OSSMCP
Panel
6.03 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 6.0
- Cost
- 7.5
- Longevity
- 5.0
“Its release badges point at a different repository than the one you cloned, which is a versioning strategy of sorts.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | graff | Tianshu Harness |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Yes |
| Browser control | YesThe desktop app has an experimental browser pane with an Annotate mode for pinning page elements into the conversation. | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | NoSandboxing is a documented permission model over the agent's own tools, not a container. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesThe desktop app runs several chat tabs, each backed by its own graff acp process. | No |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | existing AI subscriptions | DeepSeek V4, GLM, OpenAI, Ollama |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| 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 | NOASSERTION | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 279 | 1,013 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | graff | Tianshu Harness | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.5 | 6.3 | 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 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 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 | 6.8 | 5.5 | 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 | 5.3 | 5.5 | Tianshu Harness — 412 stars, a permissive licence, and a product whose central optimisation is tuned to one model vendor: the roadmap here belongs to a company that has not been consulted. |
| La Jefa | 5.3 | 5.3 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 6.3 | 7.8 | Tianshu Harness — Apache-2.0, tool servers attach over the protocol, and a local runtime sits on the provider list beside the hosted ones, so nothing has to leave the machine if I do not want it to. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.