Comparison
Clay Seal vs Stele
A factual side by side of two tools in AI Agents & Automation. Figures come from each product’s own site.
Clay Seal
ListedRuntime security for AI agents. Clay Seal narrows what an agent can do as the task changes. Open-source identity and receipts; design-partner runtime sandbox.
Stele
ListedShared memory for AI coding agents. Claude Code, Cursor and Codex read what your project already decided, so context survives between tools and sessions.
| Clay Seal | Stele | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | AI Agents & Automation | AI Agents & Automation |
| Pricing model | Open Source | Freemium |
| Starting price | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Platforms | Not disclosed | Not disclosed |
| Techavy score | Not rated yet | Not rated yet |
About Clay Seal
Runtime security for AI agents. Clay Seal narrows what an agent can do as the task changes. Open-source identity and receipts; design-partner runtime sandbox. Each action is checked against what the task needs now, not what the agent received at launch. The permissions an agent starts with are a guess about everything it might ever need. The walls move in as the task takes shape, and anything that reaches outside them is blocked, no matter what the original grant allowed.
About Stele
Shared memory for AI coding agents. Claude Code, Cursor and Codex read what your project already decided, so context survives between tools and sessions. Only one of these agents knows this was tried last spring and rolled back. KNOW-142 : a captcha on checkout shipped last spring and was reverted after two weeks. The bot traffic is real, though it spikes on release days and is quiet the rest of the time. A gate armed only during a release window would avoid repeating that.
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