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Verified integrations

Connections to other tracked products — hover a chip for the verbatim evidence quote behind it.

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By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme

Agent experience — stories about agent experience in this arenaAgent experienceevidence →

Stories about agent experience in this arena

29.3/100

Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →

How well agents can access and operate the product

32.4/100

Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →

How much of the product can run unattended

21.7/100

Cross platform — stories about cross platform in this arenaCross platformevidence →

Stories about cross platform in this arena

30.0/100

Ecosystem extensibility — stories about ecosystem extensibility in this arenaEcosystem extensibilityevidence →

Stories about ecosystem extensibility in this arena

57.6/100

Install reproducibility — stories about install reproducibility in this arenaInstall reproducibilityevidence →

Stories about install reproducibility in this arena

49.0/100

Migration adoption — stories about migration adoption in this arenaMigration adoptionevidence →

Stories about migration adoption in this arena

80.0/100

Monorepo workspaces — stories about monorepo workspaces in this arenaMonorepo workspacesevidence →

Stories about monorepo workspaces in this arena

0.0/100

Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →

Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories

32.4/100

Performance caching — stories about performance caching in this arenaPerformance cachingevidence →

Stories about performance caching in this arena

20.0/100

Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →

Data-handling and privacy stories

0.0/100

Security supply chain — stories about security supply chain in this arenaSecurity supply chainevidence →

Stories about security supply chain in this arena

45.7/100

Toolchain management — stories about toolchain management in this arenaToolchain managementevidence →

Stories about toolchain management in this arena

90.0/100

Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts

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Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 54/54 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence

Drive the product through a documented public API G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3partial6/10T

Connect an agent via an official MCP server G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness3n/auntestednone yet

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10X

Use an official CLI G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full8/10T

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2full7/10T

Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2partial4/10C

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none±0/10

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Operate the product with natural-language commands G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none±0/10

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2none0/10

Build against official SDKs G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/a±untestednone yet

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G

Agentic features

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Subscribe to events via webhooks G

Agent access

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness2n/auntestednone yet

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G

Api quality

ai-native userAgenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness1n/auntestednone yet

Pin exact versions of packages and tools per project and have the manager respect those pins C

Pinning

developerInstall reproducibility — stories about install reproducibility in this arenaInstall reproducibility3full8/10X

Have an agent install and update project dependencies non-interactively, with clear exit codes and errors when something fails C

Headless installs

ai-native userAgent experience — stories about agent experience in this arenaAgent experience3partial6/10C

Install prebuilt binary packages from a cache instead of compiling from source C

Binary caching

developerPerformance caching — stories about performance caching in this arenaPerformance caching3partial6/10X

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth3partial5/10C

Export all of my data in open formats and leave G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3partial5/10C

Install dependencies from a lockfile and get the exact same resolved versions on every machine C

Lockfiles

developerInstall reproducibility — stories about install reproducibility in this arenaInstall reproducibility3partial5/10C

Make CI installs fast with a documented cache-restore setup and offline-capable installs C

Ci speed

platform-engineerPerformance caching — stories about performance caching in this arenaPerformance caching3partial4/10X

Audit installed dependencies for known vulnerabilities directly from the CLI C

Auditing

platform-engineerSecurity supply chain — stories about security supply chain in this arenaSecurity supply chain3noneuntestednone yet

Manage many packages in one monorepo with workspaces sharing a single lockfile and cross-linked local dependencies C

Workspaces

developerMonorepo workspaces — stories about monorepo workspaces in this arenaMonorepo workspaces3n/auntestednone yet

Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture3n/auntestednone yet

Self-host the core product G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness3n/auntestednone yet

Install and switch language runtimes or tool versions per project from a checked-in config file C

Runtimes

developerToolchain management — stories about toolchain management in this arenaToolchain management2full9/10X

Bootstrap a fresh clone with one command that installs everything the project declares C

Bootstrap

developerInstall reproducibility — stories about install reproducibility in this arenaInstall reproducibility2full8/10X

Install almost anything I need from a large, actively maintained package registry or repository C

Registry

developerEcosystem extensibility — stories about ecosystem extensibility in this arenaEcosystem extensibility2full8/10X

Keep using familiar commands and interface conventions from the incumbent tool while adopting this manager C

Compatibility

switcherMigration adoption — stories about migration adoption in this arenaMigration adoption2full8/10X

Migrate an existing project from the incumbent tool with documented import or conversion tooling G

Migration

switcherMigration adoption — stories about migration adoption in this arenaMigration adoption2full8/10X

Trust that fetched packages are verified against checksums, signatures, or attestations before they run C

Integrity

platform-engineerSecurity supply chain — stories about security supply chain in this arenaSecurity supply chain2full8/10C

Turn on protections against malicious packages, such as blocking lifecycle scripts or enforcing a minimum release age C

Hardening

platform-engineerSecurity supply chain — stories about security supply chain in this arenaSecurity supply chain2full8/10C

Read the product's source under an open license G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2partial6/10C

Add, remove, and upgrade dependencies through CLI commands that safely rewrite the manifest and lockfile, so an agent never hand-edits them C

Manifest editing

ai-native userAgent experience — stories about agent experience in this arenaAgent experience2partial5/10C

Perform bulk operations across many items at once G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2partial5/10C

Use the same workflow and config on macOS, Linux, and Windows C

Platform parity

developerCross platform — stories about cross platform in this arenaCross platform2partial5/10X

Point the manager at private registries or mirrors with scoped authentication C

Private registries

platform-engineerEcosystem extensibility — stories about ecosystem extensibility in this arenaEcosystem extensibility2partial4/10C

Get machine-readable (JSON) output from core commands so an agent can parse results instead of scraping text G

Structured output

ai-native userAgent experience — stories about agent experience in this arenaAgent experience2partial3/10C

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G

ai-native userOpenness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness2n/a0/10

Enforce a frozen/immutable lockfile mode that fails the install when the manifest and lockfile disagree C

Lockfiles

platform-engineerInstall reproducibility — stories about install reproducibility in this arenaInstall reproducibility2none0/10

Run installs and scripts filtered to a subset of workspace packages (including only those affected by a change) C

Workspaces

developerMonorepo workspaces — stories about monorepo workspaces in this arenaMonorepo workspaces2none0/10

Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth2none0/10

Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2n/auntestednone yet

Control data retention and deletion G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G

ai-native userPrivacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture2noneuntestednone yet

Rely on a shared content-addressable store so the same dependency version is stored once on disk across all projects C

Disk efficiency

developerPerformance caching — stories about performance caching in this arenaPerformance caching2noneuntestednone yet

Have the right tool versions and environment variables activate automatically when I enter a project directory C

Environments

developerToolchain management — stories about toolchain management in this arenaToolchain management1full9/10X

Extend the manager through third-party taps, overlays, plugins, or backends C

Extensibility

developerEcosystem extensibility — stories about ecosystem extensibility in this arenaEcosystem extensibility1full8/10X

Point an agent at a documented, text-based lockfile format it can read and diff C

Structured output

ai-native userAgent experience — stories about agent experience in this arenaAgent experience1partial5/10C

Version, review, and roll back my automations G

ai-native userAutomation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth1partial4/10C

See published benchmarks or measured numbers backing the manager's speed claims C

Benchmarks

developerPerformance caching — stories about performance caching in this arenaPerformance caching1none0/10

Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 28 stories with headroom

What would move mise’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.

  1. Security supply chain — stories about security supply chain in this arenaAudit installed dependencies for known vulnerabilities directly from the CLI

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30

    Evidence shows mise verifies signatures/provenance (Cosign, SLSA, GitHub attestations) and supports minimum release age restrictions, but there is no documented CLI command or feature for scanning installed tool/dependency versions against known CVE databases (no 'mise audit' or vulnerability report capability found).

  2. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productOperate the product with natural-language commands

    nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30

    All evidence shows mise operates via explicit CLI subcommands and TOML config (mise use, mise exec, mise run, etc.) with no natural-language command interface documented anywhere, including in the llms.txt probe which is just an AI-readable docs index, not an NL command layer.

  3. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productExplore an interactive API reference with runnable examples

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    No evidence of an interactive API reference with runnable examples; probes explicitly show no OpenAPI/swagger spec and no runnable docs page (404s), only static CLI documentation and an llms.txt for LLM consumption.

  4. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDownload a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    mise is a CLI tool, not an API-based service, but the story explicitly asks about a machine-readable API spec, and the evidence pack directly probes for this and finds no OpenAPI/swagger endpoint (all 404).

  5. Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productRely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy

    nonemoves API qualityimpact 30

    mise is a CLI/tool manager and no evidence in the pack shows a versioned API with a documented deprecation policy; the openapi probe returned 404s for all candidate API spec paths, and no docs discuss API versioning or deprecation guarantees.

  6. Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedSchedule recurring jobs or workflows

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    mise provides task running (mise run), file-triggered rebuilds (mise watch), and CI integration, but there is no evidence of any built-in scheduler, cron-like recurring job trigger, or workflow scheduling feature — tasks only run on-demand or via file-change/CI triggers.

  7. Performance caching — stories about performance caching in this arenaRely on a shared content-addressable store so the same dependency version is stored once on disk across all projects

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    Missing: explicit documentation of install directory structure, content-addressing/hashing scheme, and disk-space dedup guarantees across projects.

  8. Install reproducibility — stories about install reproducibility in this arenaEnforce a frozen/immutable lockfile mode that fails the install when the manifest and lockfile disagree

    nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 20

    The evidence pack shows mise has lockfile-related features (e.g.

Showing the top 8 of 28 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.

Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.

Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map14 surfaces · 29 covered stories

Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.

mise.jdx.dev16 stories

Hacker News13 stories

Dev tools docs12 stories

Getting started docs9 stories

Security docs9 stories

Configuration docs8 stories

Continuous integration docs8 stories

Registry docs4 stories

Tasks docs4 stories

llms.txt3 stories

GitHub README3 stories

CLI docs2 stories

Getting started.html docs1 story

OpenAPI spec1 story

Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs

Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.

$mise --versionreproduced
$ mise --version
              _                                        __
   ____ ___  (_)_______        ___  ____        ____  / /___ _________
  / __ `__ \/ / ___/ _ \______/ _ \/ __ \______/ __ \/ / __ `/ ___/ _ \
 / / / / / / (__  )  __/_____/  __/ / / /_____/ /_/ / / /_/ / /__/  __/
/_/ /_/ /_/_/____/\___/      \___/_/ /_/     / .___/_/\__,_/\___/\___/
                                            /_/                 by @jdx
2026.7.2 macos-arm64 (2026-07-07)
mise WARN  mise version 2026.9.1 available
proves: Use an official CLIrecorded 2026-09-04
$mise ls --json && mise registry | head -12reproduced
$ mise ls --json && mise registry | head -12
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  "zellij": [
    {
      "version": "0.44.3",
      "install_path": "/Users/judegomila/.local/share/mise/installs/zellij/0.44.3",
      "installed": true,
      "active": false
    }
  ]
}
1password                     vfox:mise-plugins/vfox-1password aqua:1password/cli
1password-cli                 vfox:mise-plugins/vfox-1password aqua:1password/cli
aapt2                         vfox:mise-plugins/vfox-aapt2
acli                          aqua:atlassian.com/acli
act                           aqua:nektos/act asdf:gr1m0h/asdf-act
action-validator              aqua:mpalmer/action-validator asdf:mpalmer/action-validator cargo:action-validator
actionlint                    aqua:rhysd/actionlint asdf:crazy-matt/asdf-actionlint go:github.com/rhysd/actionlint/cmd/actionlint
adr-tools                     aqua:npryce/adr-tools asdf:https://gitlab.com/td7x/asdf/adr-tools
ag                            vfox:mise-plugins/vfox-ag asdf:mise-plugins/mise-ag
age                           aqua:FiloSottile/age asdf:threkk/asdf-age
age-plugin-yubi[redacted]            github:str4d/age-plugin-yubi[redacted] asdf:joke/asdf-age-plugin-yubi[redacted] cargo:age-plugin-yubi[redacted]
agebox                        aqua:slok/agebox asdf:slok/asdf-agebox
proves: Get machine-readable (JSON) output from core commands so an agent can parse results instead of scraping textproves: Install almost anything I need from a large, actively maintained package registry or repositoryrecorded 2026-09-04

Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence

9 of 13 testable claims verified · 0 contradicted → integrity 69/100

38 distinct capability claims found in mise’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.

9

Verified

4

Unverified

0

Contradicted

16

Undersold

Verified (25)
Unverified (7)
Undersold (16)
Claims outside our story set (8)

Real capability claims found in mise’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.

  • “Define and run project tasks for building, testing, linting, and deploying”

    source ↗

  • “mise watch automatically rebuilds/reruns tasks on file changes”

    source ↗

  • “Tasks can be written as standalone executable bash scripts instead of embedded in yml/json/toml strings”

    source ↗

  • “Task/dependency builds run in parallel by default with no extra configuration”

    source ↗

  • “Manages dotfiles as symlinks, copies, or templates with single-line edits”

    source ↗

  • “Can bootstrap remote hosts over SSH via mise bootstrap remote”

    source ↗

  • “Run a defined task by name, e.g. mise run build”

    source ↗

  • “Tasks can declare dependencies on other tasks (depends = [...])”

    source ↗
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Business model

open-source

Free, MIT-licensed polyglot tool-version manager, env manager, and task runner maintained by Jeff Dickey (jdx) and contributors; funded via GitHub Sponsors.

pricing ↗

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How this product’s scores have moved as evidence and verdicts are re-derived — a point per change, not per day.

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