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Smithery vs StackResolve

StackResolve scores higher on the AgentReady, 100/100 against 56/100. They differ on 19 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Smithery. Smithery connects AI agents to a growing catalog of tools and integrations, handling auth, credentials, and sessions.

StackResolve. StackResolve is an independent registry that scores how ready software is for AI agents, and an API that compresses web research into structured calls.

Where StackResolve is ahead

StackResolve passes clear canonical domain and llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Smithery does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided and errors and status codes documented. Smithery misses those.

And on adopt, self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request and cli available. Smithery misses those.

Finally, on operate, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support and rate-limit behavior predictable. Smithery misses those.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. StackResolve leads 100 to 87. Smithery misses clear canonical domain, llms-full.txt / full agent docs; StackResolve misses nothing.

Understand is whether an agent can read the docs and work out how the API behaves before calling it. StackResolve leads 100 to 31. Smithery misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented; StackResolve misses nothing.

Adopt. StackResolve leads 100 to 50. Smithery misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, cli available; StackResolve misses nothing.

Operate. StackResolve leads 100 to 56. Smithery misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable; StackResolve misses nothing.

Pricing

Smithery does not publish a machine-readable starting price. StackResolve starts at $0/mo and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

StackResolve clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Smithery and StackResolve. Alternatives to each: Smithery, StackResolve.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["smithery", "stackresolve"]}