Our method

Le Répertoire des Agents is not a catalog of tools: it's a directory of problems. This page explains how we build our profiles — and how you can check for yourself what we put forward.

1. Start from the problem, not the tool

Every profile starts with a sentence you could say: “I lose 40 minutes a day sorting my emails”, “Bookkeeping steals my weekends”. We then look for the agent that solves that precise problem, we describe its setup step by step, and we say who it is for — and who it is not for. If a tool doesn't clearly solve an everyday problem, it doesn't get a profile.

2. Prices checked, and dated

Prices move fast in the AI agent world. When we have reread a price on the publisher's official pricing page, the profile shows it with a “Price checked on [date]” badge. Without that badge, treat the price as an estimate to be confirmed with the publisher. And when a publisher doesn't publish its prices — quote only — we say so, instead of inventing a figure.

3. Honest costs and limits

“Free” means free: we distinguish the permanent free plan from the time-limited free trial — they are not the same thing, and our badges keep them separate. We show the full ranges rather than just the headline price, and we point out what the sales pages pass over in silence: usage limits, costs that rise with volume, features reserved for higher plans.

4. Guardrails, on every profile

An AI agent acts in your emails, your files or your accounts: that is never trivial. Every profile therefore ends with concrete guardrails — start read-only, work on copies, cap the spending, keep a human in the loop for sensitive actions. A tool presented without limits would be a poorly presented tool.

5. How an agent gets into the directory — and what we turn down

An agent does not get into the directory just because it exists, or because it offers us a commission. It gets in by passing the same criteria for everyone:

A clear problem, in one sentence. If we cannot say, in everyday words, which painful task the agent removes, it does not get a review. That is why our catalogue counts about a hundred reviews, not thousands.
A public, verifiable price. The publisher posts its pricing, and we can re-check it on its official page. When a price is not public (quote only), we say so — we never invent a number.
A living product. The tool is maintained: recent updates, a working service, a reachable publisher. An abandoned product helps no one.
Limits we can write down. Every review ends with guardrails; if a tool does not let us describe its limits honestly, it is not ready for our readers.
No paid reviews. A publisher cannot pay for a review, nor for a better verdict, a better ranking, or a favourable comparison. This is not a temporary posture: it is the rule that makes everything else credible.

And we do turn tools down — it happens:

Disastrous reputations. A tool rated 2.2/5 by its own users (a real case: Mindgrasp, excluded for exactly this reason) does not belong here, whatever its marketing promises.
Dead products, or end-of-life already announced. When a tool shuts down or is archived by its publisher, we do not pretend otherwise: the review says so (Jules, whose shutdown is announced for December 31, 2026; AutoGen, archived by Microsoft and replaced by Microsoft Agent Framework). An outdated list that stays silent is a list that misleads.
Unverifiable prices presented as facts. No “price verified” badge without a re-check on the official page, and no price copied from a third-party directory without confirmation.

6. Affiliate links: the rules of the game

Some links on the site are affiliate links. They are flagged with the words “affiliate link”, and a legal notice appears in the footer: if you subscribe through these links, Le Répertoire des Agents may receive a commission — at no extra cost to you. Active programs as of today: Metricool, Beehiiv, Predis, Cal.com, Opus Clip, Make, vidIQ, Coursebox, Fyxer and Manatal. This rule changes neither the choice of tools nor the content of the profiles: a tool is recommended because it solves the problem, not because it pays a commission — and most profiles have no affiliate link at all.

— Le Répertoire des Agents

Page last updated on October 31, 2026 — see what's new in the Directory.