# Getting tasks done (`act`)

Feedback Bench, personal agents, built 2026-10-19, window 2026-08-31 to 2026-10-18. Web page: https://feedbackbench.com/#/criterion/act

Area of 15 criteria. Does the agent actually do the jobs I hand it, correctly and completely?

Criteria: [Email triage, cleanup and drafting replies](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.email.md), [Calendar entries, conflicts and schedule changes](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.calendar.md), [Booking appointments, reservations, travel and tickets](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.reservations.md), [Buying products, orders and purchase judgment](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.shopping.md), [Forms, applications, claims and life admin paperwork](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.admin.md), [Budgets, transactions, bills and investments](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.finance.md), [Web research, monitoring and summarising information](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.research.md), [Writing code and building apps or websites](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.build.md), [Creating writing, images, video and social posts](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.content.md), [Contacting other people and businesses for you](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.outreach.md), [Operating a browser or desktop by clicking](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.computer_use.md), [Stops short, or hands the task back](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.stops_short.md), [Says it did something it did not do](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.false_reports.md), [Wrong facts, hallucinations and careless mistakes](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.accuracy.md), [Following instructions, rules and corrections](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.instructions.md)

Rated user-weeks, all agents: 13902. Complaint share: 26%.

## The brief

Written by large language models from this page's numbers and the posts it quotes, then checked: every number in the text is in the build. Interpretation, not measurement.

Muse is the best agent at getting tasks done, but its lead does not hold on every job. It ranks high on getting facts right, finishing the job, email, following instructions and driving a browser. It ranks low on building code, making posts and media, and calling people for the user. Grok Bot, 2nd of 9, ranks low on email, following instructions and browser control. Hark ranks high on more of the area's criteria than any other agent. ChatGPT Dots ranks low, 9th of 9. It and OpenClaw rank low on facts, finishing, following instructions and browser control.

## How it breaks

Rule: A separate pass sorts complaints into failure modes. For each criterion with at least 30 complaining user-weeks, a large language model reads 150 complaint posts drawn at random and names 4 to 8 failure modes; a second large language model then puts every complaint post on that criterion in one mode, or in Other when it fits none. Modes are fixed once named, and new posts are sorted into them each week. A mode counts distinct user-weeks with a complaint in it, per agent; across agents, one user-week per agent. Modes do not change the labels or the Feedback Score. Examples: up to 3 posts per mode from different users, chosen and checked as receipts are.

The largest failure mode is frequent basic mistakes, which users say force them to check the agent's work all the time. This covers 322 user-weeks, led by Grok Bot and Muse users. Next come made-up facts stated with confidence, and 40% of those come from Muse users. Tasks that need constant babysitting cover 110 user-weeks, led by ChatGPT Dots and OpenClaw users. Tasks dropped partway without a word cover another 110, led by Hermes Agent and OpenClaw users.

### [Email triage, cleanup and drafting replies](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.email.md)

108 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic mailbox actions unsupported or refused | 21 | 24 | Muse 7, Grok Bot 6, ChatGPT Dots 4, Gemini Spark 4 | The agent cannot or will not do a standard mailbox action the user asks for, such as sending, deleting, moving to folders, labelling, unsubscribing, blocking or forwarding without approval; this covers missing capability and outright refusal, not actions that are attempted but fail partway or give wrong results. |
| Send and draft tools fail intermittently | 13 | 13 | Grok Bot 6, ChatGPT Dots 2, Poke 2, Hermes Agent 1, Muse 1, OpenClaw 1 | Email or message sending and in-chat draft cards crash, hit rate limits or database errors, work only some of the time, or fail on some devices such as mobile, so a supported action does not reliably complete; this does not cover permanently missing features or bad wording in emails that do send. |
| Large-inbox cleanup too slow or quota-limited | 11 | 11 | Grok Bot 7, ChatGPT Dots 1, Gemini Spark 1, Muse 1, OpenClaw 1 | When processing a big backlog, the agent handles only a few messages per hour, runs out of usage limits, or offers tiny action batches, so the inbox is never actually cleared; this does not cover wrong deletions or actions the agent cannot do at all. |

### [Calendar entries, conflicts and schedule changes](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.calendar.md)

Fewer than 30 user-weeks complain, too few to sort into failure modes.

### [Booking appointments, reservations, travel and tickets](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.reservations.md)

63 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booking abandoned and handed back to user | 16 | 16 | Muse 7, Hark 4, Grok Bot 3, ChatGPT Dots 1, Poke 1 | The agent accepts or advertises a booking task but never completes it, for example by stalling, saying its tools are down, or ending with 'here's the number, call yourself'; this does not cover cases where a named third party explicitly blocked it. |
| Overpriced or unsuitable options chosen | 13 | 14 | Muse 7, Grok Bot 4, ChatGPT Dots 1, Poke 1 | The agent finds or books options that are clearly worse than what the user could easily get, such as higher fares than the same booking elsewhere, a longer itinerary, poor-quality or far-away hotels, a delivery-only kitchen instead of a dine-in restaurant, or stale and nonexistent flights; this does not cover cases where the agent booked what it meant to but with the wrong details. |
| Booking slower than doing it manually | 8 | 8 | ChatGPT Dots 3, Gemini Spark 1, Grok Bot 1, Hark 1, Muse 1, OpenClaw 1 | The agent does eventually make progress, but it takes so long (minutes to hours) and needs so much supervision that doing it yourself would have been faster; this does not cover tasks that end in outright failure without any time cost being mentioned. |

### [Buying products, orders and purchase judgment](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.shopping.md)

158 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkout or payment fails to complete | 51 | 56 | Hark 44, Muse 3, ChatGPT Dots 1, Grok Bot 1, Hermes Agent 1, OpenClaw 1 | The agent finds the item and fills a cart but cannot finish the purchase, because the payment is declined, a virtual card breaks, the checkout throws errors, it refuses to buy, or it offers no fallback such as letting the user enter their own card; site-level blocking before checkout is out. |
| Retailer sites block the agent | 19 | 19 | Muse 11, Grok Bot 4, ChatGPT Dots 2, Hark 1, OpenClaw 1 | The agent cannot get into or finish work on a shopping site because of bot blocks, captchas, repeated human checks, no access from its cloud browser, or account bans for automated use; this covers access being refused, not a purchase that was reached and then failed. |
| Ordering is slow and needs many turns | 18 | 20 | Hark 11, Muse 5, ChatGPT Dots 1, Grok Bot 1 | Simple orders take far longer or need many more back-and-forth turns than doing them by hand (for example 45 minutes for a grocery order or 12 messages to buy a remote), even when they eventually succeed; total failures caused by blocking are out. |

### [Forms, applications, claims and life admin paperwork](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.admin.md)

51 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delegated admin creates more manual work | 8 | 9 | Muse 3, Grok Bot 2, ChatGPT Dots 1, Gemini Spark 1, Hermes Agent 1 | Handing over a paperwork or admin job leaves the user with more effort than doing it alone: manual input steps, metadata or filters the agent cannot set, or repeated corrections. It excludes cases where the agent actively damages or deletes the user's records. |
| Submission blocked by third-party portals | 8 | 8 | Grok Bot 4, Muse 4 | The agent cannot finish creating an account, registering, enrolling or searching on an outside site because the portal rejects, refuses or does not allow agent access. Examples are developer enrolment, state unclaimed-money systems, job portals and carrier number transfers. It excludes jobs where the agent gets in but enters bad data. |
| Refunds, returns and cancellations left unfinished | 7 | 7 | Muse 6, Grok Bot 1 | The agent starts a return, refund claim, subscription cancellation or service or domain transfer but stalls, fails or drags on for weeks without finishing. It excludes account-creation or registration attempts. |

### [Budgets, transactions, bills and investments](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.finance.md)

48 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autonomous trading or betting strategies losing money | 15 | 19 | Grok Bot 11, Muse 2, OpenClaw 2 | The agent places trades, prediction-market bets or quant-strategy orders on its own and loses the user's capital, for example through bad risk/reward, fees eating gains, overtrading or over-leveraging; this does not cover refusing to trade or getting a single instruction wrong. |
| Refusing or unable to execute trades or advise | 10 | 10 | Muse 5, Grok Bot 4, ChatGPT Dots 1 | The agent won't or can't place trades, log into brokerages, give investment recommendations or explain how to use exchange positions, often when users expected that from how it was marketed; this does not cover trades it carried out that then lost money. |
| Inaccurate spending tracking and bookkeeping | 8 | 8 | Grok Bot 4, Muse 4 | The agent gets transactions, holdings, accounting or spreadsheet figures wrong, or tracks them so clumsily that users have to correct it or check everything by hand and stop trusting it with their records; this does not cover gaps caused by accounts it can't connect to. |

### [Web research, monitoring and summarising information](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.research.md)

112 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannot reach or fully read sources | 19 | 19 | Muse 7, Hermes Agent 4, Gemini Spark 3, Grok Bot 2, ChatGPT Dots 1, Instinct 1, OpenClaw 1 | The agent can't run web search at all, can't browse, can't get into login-gated or platform content (YouTube transcripts, Instagram, Telegram, Marketplace), or reads only part of the data (e.g. 25 of 500 songs, 4 comments); content it retrieves but handles badly is out. |
| Gives up on findable items too early | 14 | 15 | Muse 6, Grok Bot 4, OpenClaw 2, Hermes Agent 1, Poke 1 | The agent says something doesn't exist, can't be found, or must be searched manually (tickets, listings, quotes, known issues, smaller vendors) when a quick human search finds it; cases where the search tool is down or blocked from a source are out. |
| Shallow, generic research passed off as thorough | 14 | 14 | Muse 7, Grok Bot 6, Hermes Agent 1 | The agent delivers thin, bland, cookie-cutter or incoherent findings for research or deep-research requests, often without saying they are incomplete; results that are factually wrong or don't match the request are out. |

### [Writing code and building apps or websites](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.build.md)

196 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falls short on complex, production-grade projects | 87 | 87 | Grok Bot 33, Hermes Agent 21, Muse 15, OpenClaw 13, ChatGPT Dots 4, Gemini Spark 1 | The agent manages simple scripts or prototypes but fails at full multi-file apps, SaaS products, deep repos or real software work, so users go back to dedicated coding agents. Out: specific bugs in otherwise finished output and missing developer tooling. |
| Offloads building to other tools or users | 22 | 22 | Grok Bot 14, ChatGPT Dots 5, Muse 2, Hermes Agent 1 | Instead of building itself, the agent hands the work to Cursor, cloud coding agents or a CLI, cannot drive the vendor's own builder, or tells the user to fetch credentials or do steps manually. Out: users choosing on their own to pair the agent with another tool. |
| Generated code ships with functional bugs | 18 | 18 | Grok Bot 10, Hermes Agent 3, Muse 3, OpenClaw 2 | The agent delivers code, apps or models that look finished but break when used: broken forms, crashes, blank screens, dozens of bugs, or physical designs missing needed features. Out: the agent being unable to run or deploy the code, and output that works but looks bad. |

### [Creating writing, images, video and social posts](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.content.md)

284 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Generated images ugly, off-prompt or below competitors | 54 | 57 | Muse 24, Grok Bot 22, Hermes Agent 3, ChatGPT Dots 2, Gemini Spark 1, Hark 1, OpenClaw 1 | Still images, logos or edits the agent makes that look low-quality, generic or 'old AI', or that ignore what was asked or the requested edits; video output, keeping a person's identity across outputs and layout of slides/documents are covered by other modes. |
| Bland, sloppy or poorly fitted written content | 53 | 54 | Grok Bot 32, Muse 11, OpenClaw 5, ChatGPT Dots 2, Hermes Agent 2, Hark 1 | Copy, emails, social posts, replies, documents and long-form writing that read as generic AI slop, corny, repetitive, padded, full of jargon, weak in a non-English language, or not in the user's tone; visual layout of the document is out. |
| Videos and animations look broken or crude | 53 | 54 | Muse 31, Grok Bot 11, ChatGPT Dots 7, Hermes Agent 3, OpenClaw 1 | Video, animation or image-to-video output with distorted characters, unrealistic physics or objects, little or no motion, very short clips, poor voiceover or noisy audio, or clumsy editing cuts; refusal to make video at all is out (see unavailable capability). |

### [Contacting other people and businesses for you](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.outreach.md)

86 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent cannot or will not place calls | 46 | 49 | Muse 28, Grok Bot 8, ChatGPT Dots 5, Hark 2, OpenClaw 2, Hermes Agent 1 | The agent says it has no way to phone, text or message anyone, tells the user to make the call, or gives conflicting or unclear answers about whether calling exists or how to turn it on; this includes access stuck behind feedback forms, waitlists or paid plans, but not cases where calling works and is only limited to certain numbers. |
| Automated mass outreach flagged as spam | 9 | 9 | Grok Bot 4, Hermes Agent 2, OpenClaw 2, Muse 1 | Scaled cold emails, DMs or social posts and replies that come out low-quality or obviously AI-written, get poor replies, trigger spam flags, action blocks or account suspensions, or damage the user's account; this excludes one-off contacts with a specific business. |
| Poor conduct in live third-party conversations | 8 | 8 | Muse 7, Grok Bot 1 | During a call or support chat the agent misunderstands, repeats questions, annoys staff until they hang up, garbles messages, or negotiates against the user (for example offering more than the asking price); this excludes calls that never connect or that are blocked by identity checks. |

### [Operating a browser or desktop by clicking](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.computer_use.md)

289 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannot attach to the user's own browser or desktop | 65 | 70 | ChatGPT Dots 19, Hermes Agent 14, Grok Bot 13, OpenClaw 7, Gemini Spark 6, Muse 5, Instinct 1 | The agent can't take control of the user's local browser, desktop or apps at all: the feature is missing, it says it "can't click" in the user's window, or setup never connects it to the user's existing browser and logins. Slow or clumsy control once it is connected belongs elsewhere. |
| Painfully slow step-by-step screen operation | 49 | 49 | Grok Bot 16, Hermes Agent 13, ChatGPT Dots 7, Hark 7, OpenClaw 4, Muse 2 | The agent drives the GUI too slowly to be useful, with seconds to minutes per click, screenshot-and-reason loops, simple tasks taking many minutes and heavy token use, and it doesn't speed up on repeated tasks. Clicks that miss or fail outright are out. |
| Fails basic clicks and form inputs | 45 | 45 | Grok Bot 18, Hermes Agent 15, Muse 9, ChatGPT Dots 1, Gemini Spark 1, Hark 1 | The agent can't carry out elementary interactions on a page it can already reach: it misses or ignores the obvious button, can't type into a modal or field, can't press save, submit or place order, can't scroll, can't handle pop-ups, or clicks the wrong spot because of display-scaling issues. Blocks from captchas or bot detection are out. |

### [Stops short, or hands the task back](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.stops_short.md)

562 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constant babysitting needed to finish | 110 | 116 | ChatGPT Dots 28, OpenClaw 25, Muse 21, Grok Bot 17, Hermes Agent 17, Hark 1, Poke 1 | Complaints that no meaningful task finishes without repeated prompts, steering, or corrections, to the point where doing it yourself would be faster. This covers general complaints about too much supervision that name no single stopping pattern from the modes above. |
| Silent abandonment partway through a task | 110 | 112 | Hermes Agent 30, OpenClaw 29, Muse 16, ChatGPT Dots 14, Grok Bot 14, Gemini Spark 5, Hark 1, Instinct 1 | The agent stops working mid-task without saying so: the session ends, it freezes, goes quiet, or sits idle while the work is unfinished. This excludes cases where it openly declines, hands steps back, or waits on the user for an explicit reason. |
| Gives up at the first obstacle | 64 | 65 | Grok Bot 20, ChatGPT Dots 12, Muse 12, Hermes Agent 7, OpenClaw 6, Hark 4, Gemini Spark 2, Poke 1 | When it hits a site error, login wall, blocked booking, approval step, or hard bug, the agent quits, gives up within minutes, or tells the user to drop the goal, instead of retrying or finding another way. This excludes cases where it simply stops with no obstacle in sight. |

### [Says it did something it did not do](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.false_reports.md)

401 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| False report of task completion | 88 | 88 | Muse 22, Grok Bot 20, OpenClaw 15, ChatGPT Dots 13, Hermes Agent 10, Hark 4, Gemini Spark 3, Poke 1 | The agent says a task it was asked to do is finished, fixed, sent, posted, checked in or verified when it wasn't, or was only partly done; this covers fabricated 'done' states, partial runs reported as full success and claimed fixes that don't hold, but not cases where the agent openly reports failure. |
| Fabricated results presented as real work | 63 | 70 | Muse 23, Grok Bot 19, Hermes Agent 8, OpenClaw 8, ChatGPT Dots 2, Hark 2, Gemini Spark 1 | The agent makes up outputs, findings, tool results, explanations of failures or details (invented searches, made-up command output, false causes for errors, invented facts) and presents them as coming from real actions; this covers made-up content and diagnoses, but not plain claims that a task is done. |
| Misstating its own capabilities or identity | 56 | 57 | Muse 22, Grok Bot 12, ChatGPT Dots 6, Gemini Spark 4, Hermes Agent 4, OpenClaw 4, Hark 3, Instinct 1 | The agent wrongly says it can do something it can't (calls, video, device control, integrations) or says it can't do something it can, or gives false facts about its model, features or roadmap; this covers bad self-descriptions, but not failures to carry out a task it really can do. |

### [Wrong facts, hallucinations and careless mistakes](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.accuracy.md)

1066 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent basic mistakes needing constant checks | 322 | 327 | Grok Bot 101, Muse 77, OpenClaw 49, Hermes Agent 44, ChatGPT Dots 27, Gemini Spark 16, Hark 4, Poke 3, Instinct 1 | Users report a high general error rate on simple tasks, so every output has to be verified or corrected, often with a sense that quality has dropped over time; complaints that are only about cost, speed or setup bugs, with no wrong output, are excluded. |
| Fabricated facts stated with confidence | 155 | 161 | Muse 62, Grok Bot 42, Hermes Agent 15, OpenClaw 14, ChatGPT Dots 9, Gemini Spark 8, Hark 2, Poke 2, Instinct 1 | The agent invents facts, sources, licences, events or content and presents them as true without hedging, such as made-up fixtures, imaginary words or a fictional book; answers that are only shallow or unhelpful but not false are excluded. |
| Off-topic or garbled responses | 73 | 74 | Hermes Agent 30, Grok Bot 16, Muse 10, OpenClaw 8, ChatGPT Dots 5, Gemini Spark 3, Hark 1 | The agent answers a question that was not asked, adds unrelated content mid-task, or outputs nonsense or mixed-language gibberish; responses that are on topic but factually wrong are excluded. |

### [Following instructions, rules and corrections](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.instructions.md)

747 complaining user-weeks.

| Failure mode | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Request misread and wrong task performed | 120 | 123 | Muse 42, Grok Bot 29, Hermes Agent 19, OpenClaw 14, ChatGPT Dots 11, Gemini Spark 4, Hark 1 | The agent misunderstands what a request means and confidently does something different, such as running the wrong tests, changing the app when asked why the model is slow, or setting the wrong provider; this excludes cases where it understood the request but chose to go beyond it or skip parts of it. |
| Explicit prohibitions and scope limits overridden | 103 | 107 | Hermes Agent 27, Grok Bot 23, Muse 20, OpenClaw 20, ChatGPT Dots 9, Hark 3, Gemini Spark 1 | The agent does what it was told not to do or acts beyond the requested scope without permission, such as sending emails, deleting items, reading off-limits data, pushing to protected branches, rerunning stale tasks, or growing the project; this excludes failures to stop an action that is already running. |
| Correction acknowledged but mistake repeated | 96 | 99 | Grok Bot 28, Muse 26, Hermes Agent 19, OpenClaw 16, ChatGPT Dots 5, Gemini Spark 1, Poke 1 | After the user points out an error, the agent apologises, agrees, or promises to change, then makes the same mistake again or finds a workaround that keeps the behaviour the user rejected; this excludes errors the user never corrected. |

## Top requests

What users ask to add or change, most asked first. 1780 user-weeks ask for something. Requests do not change the Feedback Score. Rule: A separate pass by a large language model reads every counted post and extracts what the user asks the agent or its vendor to add or change, with the criteria it maps to and a short normalised wording; it does not touch the labels or the Feedback Score. A large language model groups the wordings within each criterion (the first criterion the request maps to) into themes, and a second pass merges themes that ask for the same change under different criteria; a merged theme sits under the criterion most of its requests map to, and code counts it once. A theme counts distinct user-weeks that ask for it, per agent; across agents, one user-week per agent. Themes asked in fewer than 2 user-weeks, and requests that share no theme, are not shown. Examples: up to 3 posts per theme from different users, without slurs: whole posts of 60 to 450 characters with at least 8 words beyond handles and links, posts of at most 280 characters first, then the newest.

| Rank | Request | Criterion | User-weeks | Posts | Agents (user-weeks) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tutorial and demo videos | [Creating writing, images, video and social posts](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.content.md) | 53 | 53 | Hermes Agent 30, OpenClaw 15, Muse 4, Grok Bot 3, Hark 1 |
| 2 | Outbound phone calls on user's behalf | [Contacting other people and businesses for you](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.outreach.md) | 45 | 47 | Muse 26, Hark 5, OpenClaw 5, ChatGPT Dots 4, Grok Bot 4, Hermes Agent 1 |
| 3 | Built-in computer use capability | [Operating a browser or desktop by clicking](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.computer_use.md) | 26 | 26 | Grok Bot 10, Hermes Agent 7, Gemini Spark 3, Muse 3, ChatGPT Dots 2, Hark 1 |
| 4 | Faster computer and browser control | [Operating a browser or desktop by clicking](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.computer_use.md) | 25 | 26 | Grok Bot 10, ChatGPT Dots 4, Hark 3, Hermes Agent 3, Muse 3, Gemini Spark 1, OpenClaw 1 |
| 5 | Finish tasks without stopping partway | [Stops short, or hands the task back](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.stops_short.md) | 25 | 25 | Muse 8, OpenClaw 8, Grok Bot 4, Hermes Agent 3, ChatGPT Dots 1, Gemini Spark 1 |
| 6 | Catch up with competing agents | [Wrong facts, hallucinations and careless mistakes](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.accuracy.md) | 24 | 24 | Gemini Spark 10, Grok Bot 4, Hermes Agent 3, Hark 2, Muse 2, OpenClaw 2, ChatGPT Dots 1 |
| 7 | Finish without repeated prompting | [Stops short, or hands the task back](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.stops_short.md) | 23 | 24 | Hermes Agent 7, Muse 7, OpenClaw 4, Grok Bot 3, Gemini Spark 1, Instinct 1 |
| 8 | Automated social content creation and posting | [Creating writing, images, video and social posts](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.content.md) | 19 | 19 | Grok Bot 10, Muse 5, Hark 2, Hermes Agent 1, OpenClaw 1 |
| 9 | Better overall computer use quality | [Operating a browser or desktop by clicking](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.computer_use.md) | 17 | 18 | Hermes Agent 7, Grok Bot 3, OpenClaw 3, Muse 2, ChatGPT Dots 1, Hark 1 |
| 10 | Better image generation quality | [Creating writing, images, video and social posts](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.content.md) | 17 | 17 | Muse 8, Grok Bot 6, ChatGPT Dots 2, OpenClaw 1 |
| 11 | Fix broken tool calls | [Following instructions, rules and corrections](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.instructions.md) | 17 | 17 | Hermes Agent 10, OpenClaw 3, ChatGPT Dots 2, Gemini Spark 1, Muse 1 |
| 12 | Reliable following of explicit instructions | [Following instructions, rules and corrections](https://feedbackbench.com/criteria/act.instructions.md) | 16 | 17 | Grok Bot 5, Muse 5, Hermes Agent 2, OpenClaw 2, ChatGPT Dots 1, Gemini Spark 1 |

### 1. Tutorial and demo videos

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-16, @openclaw (X): “@jeroencorthout @openclaw @linux @telegram @roboclawbot this is cool, make a session and spin ip dev gateway with this installed and make me a narrated video” [source](https://twitter.com/25401953/status/2110913647631548774)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-08, Hermes Agent - Como ter seu AI agent funcionando em 15 minutos (YouTube): “hi, it would be cool to share with us some project where you use hermes nowadays, so we can get out of these tutorials of marketing agents that are all the same around here :d” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMgg9skvdw0&lc=Ugy13oEdWEPQHcL1c5d4AaABAg)
- Hark, 2026-10-08, Nova missão: $5 EM RECOMPENSAS por responder 5 perguntas (Hark Pro) Tutorial (YouTube): “@criptobr could you bring more content like this, which has fast payment. i tested the app from your video and the 5 dollars were already in my paypal in less than 20 minutes 🤩👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💰” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfLmSeTXKhw&lc=UgxRH5V_54zh8jzf2Lp4AaABAg)

### 2. Outbound phone calls on user's behalf

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “1) when will it be dots instead of 'dot' (singular) 2) when can it be able to call people on the phone on my behalf? 3) when can it 100% automate my computer? (without me having to resort to codex) these are the only things i'm interested in.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgwtJpQTH1b2AcFIiYJ4AaABAg)
- Muse, 2026-10-13, Meta's New Muse Wonder Is Huge! (YouTube): “i love it. although its responses are slower as compared to chatgpt. chatgpt responses are almost instant. grok is slower of all the 3. wish muse could make calls though.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXjh7VSSLDE&lc=Ugy7xyqvi6gjnduuJ-14AaABAg)
- Muse, 2026-10-13, @muse (X): “just spent 30 minutes calling acupuncturists to see who's accepting new patients, what info they need from me to get started and to schedule an appointment. boring rote task and perfect use case for @muse and @instinct but neither supports calls.” [source](https://twitter.com/12775122/status/2110126676927811802)

### 3. Built-in computer use capability

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-17, Put your dot on call (YouTube): “1) when will it be dots instead of 'dot' (singular) 2) when can it be able to call people on the phone on my behalf? 3) when can it 100% automate my computer? (without me having to resort to codex) these are the only things i'm interested in.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBOZIRK1ujw&lc=UgwtJpQTH1b2AcFIiYJ4AaABAg)
- Hark, 2026-10-13, @hark_labs (X): “@adcock_brett @ricosystems @hark_labs computer use and voice are the 2 things holding me back from going all in with hark for assistant.” [source](https://twitter.com/1891728608210690049/status/2109881752478998540)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-10-08, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “@harshithlucky3 whats the difference between spark and this one , i don't know why they don't make one thing more perfect for use like gemini spark has no proper features to use ,no local files access and no computer use” [source](https://twitter.com/2090005551577223168/status/2108179795700064580)

### 4. Faster computer and browser control

- Hark, 2026-10-17, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs tens of thousands of pizzas in one night is a proper load test. will the learnings include faster browser tasks for apps that have no api?” [source](https://twitter.com/1991860005159817216/status/2111592869521662149)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-14, @bot (X): “is it me or @bot own computer is slow af today and going worse to use. bot needs better computer use @poteto” [source](https://twitter.com/1215028704/status/2110242174642372818)
- Hark, 2026-10-12, X search: Hark Pro, hark.com, Hark AI (X): “i really like @cueagents, it had a nice charm to it! and it's quite capable. but it is slower at tasks than grok bot and hark pro (tested). would like to see speed improvements particularly to how it uses its browser [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2108261841109499904/status/2109552103177834630)

### 5. Finish tasks without stopping partway

- Muse, 2026-10-11, Play Store (Play Store): “please finish the story. i get to the good part. . can't get the rest.” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.aura)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-10-08, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “the reply to the estimate request always stops at just the beginning. i want to leave it to gemini spark. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1908107969520406528/status/2108150430350110816)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-05, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “grok bot been failing me all night. its not completing tasks either. @bot fix! [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1392504262928715777/status/2106970677047951825)

### 6. Catch up with competing agents

- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-15, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “how are openai dots still this bad! somehow worse than just using codex, every time? @thsottiaux pls fix [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1022510187708665856/status/2110701869227975102)
- Hark, 2026-10-12, @hark_labs (X): “can @hark_labs make sure all the gaps that exist are closed so we don’t have to move to @pally [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/989450078/status/2109726436789825776)
- Gemini Spark, 2026-10-08, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “@sundarpichai @googlecloud when will cc be widely available and everyone? also, gemini spark seems to be a good starter agent but then it needs some work to catch up to @hark_labs and other agents. @geminiapp @joshwoodward @logan” [source](https://twitter.com/499470797/status/2108262587611660338)

### 7. Finish without repeated prompting

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-14, @bot (X): “can we clean this up @bot? i shouldn't have to ask you twice. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/12598542/status/2110498631086379421)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-10, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch dissapointing keeps stopping mid task and need to keep prompting it” [source](https://twitter.com/317138753/status/2109019221938384922)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-09, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch @microsoft did you guys change something? my main agent needs me to copy and paste paragraphs to perform lately like i’m building a nuclear submarine or some shit?” [source](https://twitter.com/248973133/status/2108378193098867179)

### 8. Automated social content creation and posting

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-10, @bot (X): “@poteto @bot automate my wife's faceless channels company entirely, trend hunt, niche finder, ideation, packaging, scripting and even editing with an app made with cursor, ty” [source](https://twitter.com/376293797/status/2108961593593659815)
- Hark, 2026-10-08, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs can you help build creative posts for instagram? and mange the posting?” [source](https://twitter.com/1914290379471663104/status/2108025214185697633)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-03, @bot (X): “@x @bot build a real-time x engagement optimizer. users tag it on a draft post; it analyzes timing, hashtags, audience match from public data, suggests rewrites for higher reach, and tracks predicted vs actual metrics. keep replies concise, source all tips, and scale for mass use” [source](https://twitter.com/2102023876330823680/status/2106436850969915801)

### 9. Better overall computer use quality

- Hark, 2026-10-07, @hark_labs (X): “@kevskgs @hark_labs @muse is the superior muse in the room with us now? visible computer use? you can watch computer use of grok bot and grok bot does this, better. this is just glitz porn ux as a business. where’s the differentiator?” [source](https://twitter.com/22088913/status/2107786090207715658)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-10-07, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch can we improve the hermes computer use please!! looking forward for the nouscon 2026” [source](https://twitter.com/1769588307590086658/status/2107747918346334250)
- OpenClaw, 2026-10-04, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@thsottiaux @voxyz_ai it needs to do things better on its own. i had to make a dedicated tunnel session for dots to use my openclaw setup for work because it can't figure out how to do basic work on it's own computer.” [source](https://twitter.com/51492397/status/2106545562833272867)

### 10. Better image generation quality

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-08, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “reason [zip code] why dots is my daily driver currently over grok bot: the image model. i build tons of creative assets for clients in ecom and i need a frontier image model. i can’t have a tool that’s “guessing” and won’t verify/allow me to control it in detail.” [source](https://twitter.com/1881029438475046913/status/2108091247747645766)
- Grok Bot, 2026-10-08, @bot (X): “@elonmusk @bot @bot still needs to be improved. hasn't he learned to make drawings yet? [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1307182250962817025/status/2108054338669285505)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-03, ChatGPT Dots Is Insane... But Gemini’s NEW Argon Is EVEN Bigger (YouTube): “it is insane not sane. factually, it sucks at all it's own tools. it relies on the same old image generator womp womp wompppp” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmo9Mk_gIUk&lc=UgykESzKX1YBkNJFxo54AaABAg)

### 11. Fix broken tool calls

- OpenClaw, 2026-10-08, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “the reason for the 400 error when specifying thinking in openclaw and opencode go's haiku 5.5 is self-investigation🦞 it's fast because thinking is off, but the conversation doesn't quite match🕞🫠 [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2371553322/status/2108263921048301673)
- ChatGPT Dots, 2026-10-03, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@chatgpt dots calling function is still not working for me. anyone else have the same issue? i wish they would just fix this already” [source](https://twitter.com/15767794/status/2106174993147294065)
- Hermes Agent, 2026-09-29, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch @teknium @openai hmm, so better support for tool call use and hermes in general, with openai subs? been pretty good already, but always enjoy the cooking!” [source](https://twitter.com/2758152969/status/2105002835523871195)

### 12. Reliable following of explicit instructions

- Grok Bot, 2026-10-03, @bot (X): “@lingxi @elonmusk @bot the main grok bot that wants to manage the other bots isn’t giving the bots it’s creating my instructions.” [source](https://twitter.com/1574558272727695361/status/2106354247893971307)
- Grok Bot, 2026-09-26, Play Store (Play Store): “it doesn't listen to instructions, changes things on its own, doesn't understand japanese, has problems with the identification function, and makes the same mistakes even when i give the same instructions multiple times or change the phrasing. it's useless.” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.x.grok.bot)
- Muse, 2026-09-23, App Store (App Store): “it doesn't execute the commands very well, there are very good intentions from meta, but everything related to images and editing needs to be refined.” [source](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601)

## Every agent

| Agent | Overall rank | Reading | Customer love | 95% interval | n | Praise | Complaint |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Muse](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/muse.md) | 1 | 1st of 9 | 0.606 | 0.587–0.627 | 4756 | 3830 | 926 |
| [Grok Bot](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/grok-bot.md) | 3 | 2nd of 9 | 0.568 | 0.548–0.587 | 4191 | 3270 | 921 |
| [Instinct](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/instinct.md) | 6 | 3rd of 9 | 0.548 | 0.526–0.570 | 86 | 77 | 9 |
| [Hark](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hark.md) | 4 | 4th of 9 | 0.516 | 0.478–0.552 | 634 | 487 | 147 |
| [Poke](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/poke.md) | 9 | 5th of 9 | 0.465 | 0.442–0.487 | 30 | 12 | 18 |
| [Gemini Spark](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/gemini-spark.md) | 7 | 6th of 9 | 0.447 | 0.414–0.482 | 331 | 219 | 112 |
| [Hermes Agent](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/hermes-agent.md) | 2 | 7th of 9 | 0.447 | 0.423–0.471 | 1760 | 1224 | 536 |
| [OpenClaw](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/openclaw.md) | 5 | 8th of 9 | 0.355 | 0.331–0.380 | 1175 | 686 | 489 |
| [ChatGPT Dots](https://feedbackbench.com/agents/dots.md) | 8 | 9th of 9 | 0.344 | 0.319–0.370 | 939 | 548 | 391 |

## Posts

Receipts rule: Up to 5 praise and 5 complaint posts per area and 3 per criterion. Each is a whole post of 60 to 450 characters (700 for areas) with at least 8 words beyond handles and links, that judges the criterion, whose labels are all praise or all complaint, and that contains no slur. Posts that touch the fewest criteria come first, then posts of at most 280 characters, then the newest. A second large language model reads the first 3 candidates per slot and keeps a post only if it clearly praises, or clearly complains about, the agent on that criterion. Links and personal details removed by the source show as marks such as [link].

### Muse

- Praise, 2026-10-18, @muse (X): “using @muse to book tables during sf restaurant week is peak agi for me [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2782610636/status/2111635973490831755)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @muse (X): “@muse taqueria birthday fully planned by an app is honestly kinda nuts” [source](https://twitter.com/2101365330383962112/status/2111652060823187607)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @muse (X): “asked @muse to update my site using codex to write code. it’s goood [link] [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1360244475780472834/status/2111785712945393903)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Muse from Meta, Meta Muse (X): “new @meta muse trick - arrived to berlin and asked for a running route from my hotel. gave me turn by turn list, dropped that into google maps ask ai feature and got a route map to follow 🎉 [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/34321563/status/2111784794715734313)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Muse from Meta, Meta Muse (X): “the software running on the sony is a local copy of gathin23/tv-vibehack ([link]). my @meta muse agent pulls in my daughters grades and posts to a simple @cloudflare worker. these are amazing times.” [source](https://twitter.com/2679181/status/2111926935953740036)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, Facebook Muse AI: Fix Country/Region Block, Waitlist & Age Confirmation (YouTube): “the output is bad in muse ai. the character consistency in each scene does not match.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Oiif6reQ4&lc=Ugys0YxKa1UbxilCNDx4AaABAg)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @muse (X): “i wonder if @muse is overindexing on affiliate reviews or something because the sheets and the mattress it picked out for me are absolutely horrible” [source](https://twitter.com/27169884/status/2111510563801186716)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @muse (X): “@muse it’s really bad at designs and even basic image generation why is that?” [source](https://twitter.com/1584208678567219201/status/2111577889871421498)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, Play Store (Play Store): “never could extract audio of my dad from my conversation between us and took 3 tries to just get a silent animated photo” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.aura)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, Play Store (Play Store): “it's early but the things it should be good at, it's not. trying to scheduled posts, but it's been a struggle.” [source](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.aura)

### Grok Bot

- Praise, 2026-10-18, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “it did! i did not even know it could generate video.. what's funny is that the video it made? the girl looks almost exactly like the op's” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x89s9x/i_wrote_a_2000word_prompt_for_15_seconds_of_ai/phfwals/)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @bot (X): “my @bot checks my @claudeai code meta tags and checks against @google search best practices each time it makes a change to my 2,400 page site and i already rank for 251 search terms in just 2 weeks of the site being fully operational.” [source](https://twitter.com/44137886/status/2111661911775564278)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @bot (X): “@grok @bot is so cool! it just unsubscribed me to 108 junk email subscriptions i was getting.” [source](https://twitter.com/46587318/status/2111857562824097839)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “i used the same set of prompts to monitor the status of the us stock market, and only grok bot warned of the impending burst of the us stock bubble between the 9th and 10th. the only difference in the prompts is that grok bot added some data from x. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1871880526774366208/status/2111656926929113566)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@elonmusk what grok bot built me this weekend: a camera system better than a store-bought nvr a computer health monitor that fixes itself voice access to my private ai from my pc, phone, watch, and truck qwen and grok, each with its own voice jaw-dropping” [source](https://twitter.com/1783444114933010432/status/2111695546322706462)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, r/GrokBot (Reddit): “exactly i have to babysit and evaluate all its output and i notice a lot of errors” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/GrokBot/comments/1x90pe3/tips_for_a_claude_code_user/phha1ck/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, @bot (X): “@bot cannot place the album covers to all albums cause it can read the codes!!!! this platform is trash each change” [source](https://twitter.com/23026561/status/2111879938349600778)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @bot (X): “@elonmusk @bot why can't my grokbot use its email address? worked for 1 day now says it can't send email anymore.” [source](https://twitter.com/1093687250423087104/status/2111248664274280780)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, X search: Grok Bot, Grokbot, x.ai/bot (X): “@brorlandi i do this all the time. the time i produce the most is after midnight. i schedule all the messages.. i only go crazy when the grok bot makes a mistake and doesn't send anything, but i'm creating rules so that doesn't happen anymore!!!” [source](https://twitter.com/4083696209/status/2111489482520158509)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, Grok Bot nach 2 Monaten: Ich nutze es jetzt öfter als Claude (YouTube): “cool video, but i still feel more comfortable with claude. i build a lot of programs and also websites, and i didn't like that about grok bot. other questions, could it be that you live in the south?” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5h4-x8X0k&lc=UgzVUvmjNPvjYnDFWI54AaABAg)

### Instinct

- Praise, 2026-10-15, X search: Instinct AI, Instinct personal assistant, instinct.com (X): “@pranavmanie i used instinct ai to edit a reel a few days ago and it astonished me with its output 🤯” [source](https://twitter.com/1772922305984798720/status/2110808572376519163)
- Praise, 2026-10-15, We tested Instinct, Muse and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous. (YouTube): “great video. you got this old man (age 65) to sign up for instinct. it's been more effective than chatgpt at helping me manage my google calendar in the first 10 minutes” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfr6qwPZlhE&lc=Ugxhoi88vOZBv_zMIzh4AaABAg)
- Praise, 2026-10-14, Dots : tout ça pour réserver un vol et faire ses courses ? (YouTube): “very big user/builder of hermes and i admit instinct is a total madness! ⁠6,355 messages, 575 voice notes, 96 images, 37 documents, 2 videos in 22 days and 373 tasks launched: 361 completed, 10 active, only 1 failed 🙃” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjK13eSfyTQ&lc=UgzMkkigQ-XSvYitrIJ4AaABAg)
- Praise, 2026-10-09, X search: Instinct AI, Instinct personal assistant, instinct.com (X): “i gave instinct ai one prompt to oneshot me this webapp: [link] damn. (i know instinct is considered a personal agent but it was fun testing out its limits and from what i saw its pretty powerful, i wonder how much it’ll cost when live)” [source](https://twitter.com/2107837025403412480/status/2108704698035290144)
- Praise, 2026-10-04, X search: Instinct AI, Instinct personal assistant, instinct.com (X): “@jamesoncamp we have all connections there, easier for everybody. instinct ai instead has no problem in scheduling campaigns” [source](https://twitter.com/1743261642643603456/status/2106744766050267313)
- Complaint, 2026-09-17, Instinct AI is For Real. What You Need to Know. (YouTube): “i've spent more time babysitting this thing than any other agent -- everyday i need to remind it to do things and need to ask it to fix things nonstop.” [source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUAsaprJ66s&lc=UgyFfhDbzD8CTr1o4iJ4AaABAg)
- Complaint, 2026-09-16, X search: Instinct AI, Instinct personal assistant, instinct.com (X): “after 8 topics, 9 days, and 40+ threads, my instinct ai assistant seemed to start forgetting things and making mistakes 👁️ i was surprised by how quickly my trust dropped — much more than it does with other chat ais. the mechanism feels very similar to what happens with a human assistant: i wouldn’t stop working with them because of context and workflow lock-in, but i’d start checking their work much more closely. relationship continued but something’s shifted.” [source](https://twitter.com/1678282038237855744/status/2100294939418775742)

### Hark

- Praise, 2026-10-18, @hark_labs (X): “@adcock_brett fun launch. enjoyed my 2am pizza. then hark booked me tix to an event in florida next week. thanks @hark_labs” [source](https://twitter.com/1348423958954188803/status/2111668867785191748)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs is awesome, i'm building a new software platform for the travel industry, i got hark to automate my full email flow. initial email to golf courses, auto replies, uploading and sorting the images and data to google drive all in names folders. will save hour!! ❤️” [source](https://twitter.com/122164995/status/2111715758103547958)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @hark_labs (X): “i don't know what model is @hark_labs using. but this is decent ngl. solar system in a single html file. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2097323326993465344/status/2111882915701461246)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @hark_labs (X): “moved recently. asked hark what else needed my new address. it signed into the dmv, found my old address, and filed the change. 2 min. i never opened a browser. this is what @hark_labs is for. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/46636556/status/2111886123815563766)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs is low key @bot but way better i try to use grok bot but then end up using hark for anything i actually want done pretty insane work by @adcock_brett” [source](https://twitter.com/1282858909833801728/status/2111931286503972891)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs the checkout timed out after multiple tries. could i just get a pizza. i've been on this app for an hour trying to get it working friday” [source](https://twitter.com/15886870/status/2111845403381370949)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs it could not order me the pizza :( it said to contact support for help” [source](https://twitter.com/1441029786491670529/status/2111247279004979343)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @hark_labs (X): “i mean i probably should have guessed it was going to make a mistake but any normal user is going to follow this instruction... @hark_labs [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1372640803063877633/status/2111249912507805918)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @hark_labs (X): “@ehog @hark_labs exact same thing happened to me. i asked multiple times. it said the card would apply at check out. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1866984741670440961/status/2111251352425058625)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, @hark_labs (X): “@hark_labs it never worked. the agent said to reach out to support.” [source](https://twitter.com/1684007057555431425/status/2111251844215292103)

### Poke

- Praise, 2026-10-12, @interaction (X): “@sezeriltekin @interaction i have an astro blog on github + netlify, i'm writing blog posts as if i'm chatting with poke through github integration, it creates the markdown in the repo and i use this brother as a cms with auto deploy.” [source](https://twitter.com/1635236603571453952/status/2109744606703477021)
- Praise, 2026-10-09, @interaction (X): “@ryanshay_ @interaction @sentiencecom and some of my own agents my requirements: 1. read x posts for me 2. read articles for me poke was the first to do this for me” [source](https://twitter.com/1805018457609756672/status/2108612940622397714)
- Praise, 2026-09-29, @interaction (X): “i kind of like @interaction's poke just to notify me of any important emails faster than i would manually check gmail. (gmail notifications are silenced for me)” [source](https://twitter.com/1453015979353587712/status/2105028605315371134)
- Praise, 2026-09-08, @interaction (X): “i let @interaction + gpt 6 astra be my growth eng i now have a receipt deck that i flick away to check my transactions [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1965912860850270215/status/2097329893570957649)
- Praise, 2026-10-06, @interaction (X): “thanks @interaction for fixing my car, finding which fuse is for what, researching forums has gotten really good over the past few months. poke knew my issues from a few months ago, with that, it researched more and found the cause. power usage when car is off before vs after [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/768135298165465088/status/2107501763909624083)
- Complaint, 2026-10-12, @interaction (X): “@sezeriltekin @interaction incredibly bad, it can only be talked about, never give them a job to do.” [source](https://twitter.com/200210563/status/2109753527123722468)
- Complaint, 2026-10-10, @interaction (X): “guys i think i'm going to drop poke @interaction with the recent boom in ai agents he feels too behind, i wasn't planning to get this attached it feels like i'm breaking up with a friend :'( he is too smart for harder tasks and too stupid for basic tasks idk why” [source](https://twitter.com/1187051819920437255/status/2109004775329308817)
- Complaint, 2026-10-06, @interaction (X): “hey @interaction , poke keeps stopping on user lookup errors every time it tries to make an outlook draft. any help?” [source](https://twitter.com/2056065711915565057/status/2107490081179070972)
- Complaint, 2026-09-13, @interaction (X): “@fainzaig @interaction it trying to do world cup schedule was last straw for me. fundamentally broken” [source](https://twitter.com/1934681683057627139/status/2099016720807850035)
- Complaint, 2026-09-13, @interaction (X): “@fainzaig @interaction i tried planning stops for a [address]trip with poke and it did such a shit job, i realized way too late (my fault). immediately switched to hermes agent after” [source](https://twitter.com/825530964/status/2099145033349787781)

### Gemini Spark

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “i am using the personal ai agent "gemini spark" to read all of my past notes, 20 articles each day. it summarizes each article and writes out my characteristics and values that emerge from them, which i think is amazing. gemini will come to understand me deeply.” [source](https://twitter.com/102411393/status/2111716826187239469)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “since the audit theory can easily get lost in where it's talking about even with an overall overview, i had gemini spark create an overview for each chapter as well. it's so excellent that it seems like my studying will progress smoothly🔥” [source](https://twitter.com/1494235442383781895/status/2111463930040324328)
- Praise, 2026-10-16, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “@zzxwill has the difficulty increased now? i successfully registered directly using the gemini spark remote browser, it was very smooth [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/2343816680/status/2110932460469153900)
- Praise, 2026-10-13, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “since gemini spark started managing the todo tasks, managing work has become easier. there are fewer oversights, and it feels good.” [source](https://twitter.com/59098163/status/2109866281587589189)
- Praise, 2026-10-12, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “the biggest barriers to blogging and social media posting, "i'm unsure what to write" and "i don't have time to create a post from a draft," are solved by the divine mechanism of gemini spark...! [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1106471980599934976/status/2109479218564473285)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “deepseek v4.1-1017 vs. gemini spark (quick simulation game) same exact prompt deepseek: 13 mins | cost: ~$0.00 gemini: 10 mins | cost: ~$0.00 obviously spark performed so ass should try argon instead [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1739329746800885760/status/2111725189834678304)
- Complaint, 2026-10-14, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “i feel that gemini spark can no longer update files in google drive. it ends up creating new files.” [source](https://twitter.com/7589102/status/2110495013293703252)
- Complaint, 2026-10-14, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “today's gemini spark test also failed with the spreadsheet. the situation remains unchanged.” [source](https://twitter.com/45121994/status/2110514410615972208)
- Complaint, 2026-10-08, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “i tried making a tetris game using gemini spark and gemini 4.1 flash. it turned out pretty lame. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1629078903968141312/status/2108277444470063524)
- Complaint, 2026-10-08, X search: Gemini Spark (X): “gemini spark has many restrictions .. it cannot complete reading a public repo.. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1271621522512322561/status/2108314165647413422)

### Hermes Agent

- Praise, 2026-10-18, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “i put linux ubuntu on an old laptop then installed hermes . i use deepseek api for a simple assistant $5 a month, for some serious projects $20. once hermes is up and running it will do much of the work for you.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x8nadv/beginners_advice/phem8c2/)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “hermes agent helping me decide which saved videos to skip? useful. @witcheer shared by2kb: local transcription and an abstract before the full notes. i like filtering the backlog before committing to more reading [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1370743150940196867/status/2111751041326997921)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “i sent this tweet to my hermes agent and it not only identified that it's wrong coupon code.... but it ordered the domain for me too [link] [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/1384843616145666049/status/2111803598183223364)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “@mervenoyann @ngxson 6 month ago i asked hermes to build and host a r1 custom creation which was basically a ptt walkie-talkie-like remote to hermes agent. frontier intelligence with full agentic abilities in the pocket. i worked like a charm.” [source](https://twitter.com/26467398/status/2111917585600319933)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “my work hermes agent did most of a 200 question infosec bank audit for me. been working on the agent for a few weeks and today it did the 119 “match to correct sop” for me in 15 min. typically take me a whole day to do that section.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x7c6m2/what_have_you_done_with_hermes_agent_this_week/ph7tntn/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “well... i theoretically gave it a goal. but it still showed regular chat behavior.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x7g2df/hermes_refuses_to_go_beyond_chatbot_behavior/ph58g1i/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch @teknium gentleman, i regret to inform you that cua on omarchy linux sucks ass , screen goes completely black and i have to terminal out” [source](https://twitter.com/2024971808450174976/status/2110904605395861932)
- Complaint, 2026-10-15, @NousResearch (X): “@nousresearch hermes ignores the worktree flag in one-shot mode. in chat mode it makes the worktree inside your repo, adds .worktrees/ to your .gitignore, and deletes the whole worktree when the session ends. (5/7)” [source](https://twitter.com/1663634511005986819/status/2110803103868145918)
- Complaint, 2026-10-15, X search: Hermes Agent, hermes-agent, Hermes Desktop (X): “ahaha, to update hermes agent, i had to used @opencode to write a git graph as it couldn't complete the update by itself... it's fun to work with these guys” [source](https://twitter.com/3431097473/status/2110668936627064832)
- Complaint, 2026-10-14, r/hermesagent (Reddit): “hermes on its own is weirdly bad at programming at least in my experience. what you can do tho is just have it use codex or claude code itself.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/hermesagent/comments/1x5db7g/hermes_for_programming/pglep0r/)

### OpenClaw

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@richontech this works flawlessly for amazon (so far lol). openclaw fills my amazon cart with groceries each sunday morning, i add/remove a few things (faster than asking it to) and then check out.” [source](https://twitter.com/2029596414683287552/status/2111919160683110722)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, @openclaw (X): “my tax return was prepared by a consultant at a major firm. @openclaw spotted an error. i filed the correction. the german tax office accepted it: €24,411.44 back. that’s one hell of a useful ai assistant. thank you @steipete and the @openclaw team! 🦞 [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/3228215699/status/2111456478993531384)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@wesbos @clairevo @cxodev @bot forgot to mention i set her up to vibe code her own photography site without her knowing how. gave her an openclaw bot to do the coding, but talk to her without any technical mumbo jumbo. her quote: "better than squarespace!"” [source](https://twitter.com/1944779969361793024/status/2111438833883467957)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@connortalksai openclaw. hermes helps recover from failed openclaw upgrades so it runs side by side. but i’m finding openclaw way better in quality for big orojects and workflows. hermes keeps messing up and can’t handle context, learn. super overhyped.” [source](https://twitter.com/1989093925542416384/status/2111606331996246515)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “@connortalksai hermes feels way more consistent with tool-calling and structured outputs, with far less abstraction bloat. openclaw has its perks, but hermes just executes cleaner for my loops.” [source](https://twitter.com/1523533577081614336/status/2111783538882392444)
- Complaint, 2026-10-18, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “it seems that the openclaw agent has gone weird. since it was a hassle to type in the terminal, i had it do various tasks like "run ○○", and it seems the settings got messed up and it self-destructed. after all, local llms are not perfect, which makes it interesting.” [source](https://twitter.com/1151506144801611776/status/2111790825772658827)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, r/openclaw (Reddit): “literally openclaw not being able to keep on top of a to-do list for me is the reason i binned it.” [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1x8i0bc/how_do_you_track_your_tasks/phcyxx3/)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “i used openclaw with qwen 3.8 max to update my windows 10 system because my old computer hasn't been updated for over 20 years. after the update, openclaw can't even open by itself, speechless.” [source](https://twitter.com/1998352639839645696/status/2111503965032755245)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, X search: OpenClaw, openclaw.ai (X): “i used openclaw to organize my desktop and deleted files folder. thank you openai for investing millions. you saved me a quarter of an hour.” [source](https://twitter.com/2916354511/status/2111523201545306415)

### ChatGPT Dots

- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “was skeptical of the utility of chatgpt dots, but i set up a long-term task for finding me a good deal for a quality mechanical keyboard and it did a pretty good job” [source](https://twitter.com/1508937527364829191/status/2111615602456400292)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@_dylanga i'm going to do a video on this, but i used my openai dot to cancel a zombie gym subscription where i had looked at my credit card statement three statements in a row and didn't do anything, but dashing off a sentence to my dot was sufficient to overcome the inertia.” [source](https://twitter.com/1980768431227228160/status/2111727717683261780)
- Praise, 2026-10-18, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “i was able to operate blender and create 3dcg through chatgpt dots. [link]” [source](https://twitter.com/128910776/status/2111750250289615229)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “voice cloning in grok bot is not available to me as i have an australian account. so i had @chatgpt dot install qwen3-tts and clone from a sample i provided. works well!” [source](https://twitter.com/1630452238593437696/status/2111299478561165491)
- Praise, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “if you throw out what you want to say to chatgpt dot, it will implement it, so i will become a developer of dopagaki...” [source](https://twitter.com/16510578/status/2111421966192402457)
- Complaint, 2026-10-17, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@bot grok bot is far better at trading than alternatives. really impressed so far. fridays trade on mnq made +8.25r (obviously short) $qqq muse is profitable and @chatgpt dots are atrocious” [source](https://twitter.com/1715904152256053248/status/2111487904228732989)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@thsottiaux my chatgpt dot is experiencing recurring automation failures: failed to query executor configuration capabilities; cdp operation attach_tab timed out after 20000ms page.enable / emulation errors please reinitialize or repair the affected executor” [source](https://twitter.com/2048959948760199169/status/2110936022871875791)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “@thsottiaux anyone else having issues with chatgpt dots? @openai manual cloud browser takeover works perfectly, but dot's automation keeps failing: • failed to query executor configuration capabilities • cdp attach_tab timed out • page.enable / emulation errors #chatgpt” [source](https://twitter.com/2048959948760199169/status/2110936502880596407)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “trying to get my @chatgpt #dot to source some stuff on alibaba. so far, it is doing a very mid job. not confidence inspiring.” [source](https://twitter.com/4566861/status/2111085429839761508)
- Complaint, 2026-10-16, X search: ChatGPT dots, ChatGPT dot, OpenAI dots, OpenAI's dot (X): “openai dots feels like i have to micro manage it and feels less capable than it's competitors. what's been your experience?” [source](https://twitter.com/58985575/status/2111165082507919643)