Price checked Oct 10, 2026
New launch review · Developer Tools
Agent.reviews Review (2026)
Agent.reviews review: Tool reviews written by coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, right after real tasks. Free.
- Price: free to read and to review
- Size: 4,059 tools, 189,597 reviews (Oct 10)
- Made by: Armature
- Launched: Show HN, Oct 7, 2026
New launch, not tested hands-on. Agent.reviews was posted to Hacker News as a Show HN on October 7, 2026. Everything below comes from Armature’s own public pages, checked October 8, 2026 and re-checked October 10, 2026. We have not installed or used it, so we make no claim about quality, speed or reliability.
No affiliate links on this page. We have no affiliate arrangement with Armature. Every link to Agent.reviews goes to its official site, and we earn nothing from it.
Summary
Quick verdict: a free, genuinely new kind of review site, where the reviewers are AI coding agents. Useful as a quick signal on developer tools, as long as you remember the agents grade themselves.
- The tagline is “Where agents choose and review software”. After a real task, a coding agent reports the tool it used, how it connected, the task, how it ended, and three ratings from 1 to 5.
- The three ratings are Usefulness, Ease and Reliability. A tool’s score is their average, and the site turns it into a word: Excellent from 4.3, Great from 3.8, Average from 2.8, Poor from 1.8.
- On October 10, 2026 the site listed 4,059 tools and 189,597 reviews across 27 categories (up from 4,005 tools and 189,335 reviews on October 8), from databases and payments to voice AI and browser automation.
- It is free. You set it up by pasting one prompt into your coding agent, which installs a review skill and asks you to sign in.
- It is made by Armature, which also sells tool makers a service to test how coding agents choose and use their products.
- Honesty note: we have not installed the skill. Everything here comes from agent.reviews, checked October 8, 2026 and re-checked October 10, 2026.
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Pricing
Source: the FAQ on agent.reviews and the install page, re-checked October 10, 2026 at about 8:30 PM ET (first checked October 8). There is no pricing page and no paid plan.
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Reading reviews | Free |
| Sending reviews from your agent | Free |
| Install command / skill | Free |
| Paid plans | None listed |
Price snapshot: Price at the time of writing this review (October 10, 2026): free to read and free to review. If you’re reading this at a later date, the price may have changed.
- The FAQ answer, in full: “Yes. Reading reviews, sending them and the install command are all free. To read every review, you sign in for free and your agent adds its first review.”
- So the price of full access is a free sign-in plus one review from your agent. The install page says that first review is of Armature.
- Armature’s service for tool makers (“Evaluate your tool”) links to armature.tech. No price for it is shown on agent.reviews.
Plain link to agent.reviews. Not an affiliate link.
Price history
| Checked | What the official site said |
|---|---|
| Free to read, free to review, free install. No paid plans listed. 4,005 tools and 189,335 reviews | |
| Still free to read, free to review, free install. No paid plans listed. 4,059 tools and 189,597 reviews |
We re-check this page every month and add a row.
Features
From agent.reviews, its How reviews work page and its install page, October 8, 2026, re-checked October 10, 2026. Described, not tested.
- Browse and compare: search a tool or category, read agent-written reviews, and compare tools side by side.
- One-prompt install: works in coding agents that can run a terminal command, such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Gemini CLI or OpenCode. In ChatGPT or Claude you add it as a connector instead.
- Automatic or on request: with automatic reviews on, your agent reviews the tools it used after each task, but skips a tool it reviewed in the last 30 days unless something changed. With them off, it reviews only when you ask.
- What gets shared: the tool, how the agent connected, a broad task, what worked, what got in the way, and the ratings. The FAQ says the skill tells agents never to send your code, prompts, file paths, logs, secrets or customer data.
- Checks before publishing: the site says it holds back any review where it finds keys, tokens, email addresses, phone numbers, internal addresses or long logs.
- Verified reviews: come from agents whose user signed in. Names are never shown. Unverified reviews publish ten minutes later.
- Leaderboards: a separate Armature experiment that runs the same task many times and counts which tool the agent picks.
Who it’s for
- Developers who use coding agents and want a quick read on how an API, SDK or CLI behaves when an agent sets it up.
- Teams that make developer tools and want to see where agents get stuck with their product.
- Anyone curious about which tools agents pick. Reading is free.
- Not for you if you are choosing everyday business software like a CRM or a course platform. The categories are almost all developer tools.
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How we review
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The catch
The ratings are the agents grading themselves, and the site says so.
- The How reviews work page says: “The agent, model and result come from the agent itself, so they are not independent proof.”
- The site does not say it checks that a task happened the way the agent describes it. The checks it does describe look for leaked secrets and personal data.
- Treat a score as one hint about setup friction, and still read the tool’s own docs and pricing before you commit.
Verdict
- Reading: worth a look before you pick a developer tool for an agent-heavy project. It costs nothing.
- Installing the skill: only if you are happy for your agent to send short task summaries to a third party. Start with the lighter setup on the install page, which writes one review and then reviews only when you ask.
Worth it if: you build with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar and want a free, fast signal on how tools behave for agents.
Skip it if: you need independent, verified reviews, or you are buying non-developer SaaS.
Not tested hands-on. New launches change fast: we will re-check the official pages and update this review. No tool can promise results.
Agent.reviews FAQ
How much does Agent.reviews cost?
Reading and sending reviews is free, and so is the install command. Full access needs a free sign-in plus one review from your agent. No paid plan is listed (checked October 10, 2026).
What is the main downside of Agent.reviews?
The ratings come from the coding agents themselves, and the site says they are not independent proof. Treat a score as one hint, not a verdict.
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