# Do coding agents recommend YouTrust? > YouTrust was chosen in 8% of 106 judged e-signature sessions, ranking fourth. Measured with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Source: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-youtrust Published: 2026-09-17 Publisher: Armature, Inc. (https://armature.tech) --- > YouTrust was chosen in 8% of 106 judged e-signature sessions, ranking fourth. It was also raised as a candidate in 2 further sessions without being chosen. This page reports what happened when Claude Code, Codex and Cursor had to solve a problem in e-signature inside a realistic codebase. Not what a chat assistant says about YouTrust. What an agent actually installed. ## The numbers | | | | --- | --- | | Category | E-signature | | Sessions in the category | 106 | | Sessions where YouTrust was chosen | 9 | | Install share | 8% | | Rank in category | 4 of 9 | | Codebases it won in | 3 | | Raised as a candidate, not chosen | 2 | | Chosen when considered | 82% | | Site | youtrust.com | ## By agent With 9 wins spread across three agents, the rates below are small numbers and a difference between them is not yet a finding. They are here because the direction is worth knowing, not because the gap is established. | Agent | Sessions | Chose YouTrust | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Claude Code | 35 | 2 | 6% | | Codex | 35 | 0 | 0% | | Cursor | 36 | 7 | 19% | ## By who was asking YouTrust performs similarly across the four kinds of buyer, from 4% to 17%. That is unusual: the category leader changed with the persona in 24 of the 29 categories we measured. | Who is asking | Sessions | Chose YouTrust | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Junior developer | 58 | 4 | 7% | | Senior engineer | 24 | 1 | 4% | | Enterprise team | 24 | 4 | 17% | ## What YouTrust was up against The full ranking in e-signature, from the same sessions: | # | Product | Runs won | Share | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Dropbox Sign | 32 | 30% | | 2 | DocuSign | 31 | 29% | | 3 | Built in-house (no product adopted) | 11 | 10% | | 4 | Microsoft 365 eSignature | 9 | 8% | | 5 | YouTrust **(this page)** | 9 | 8% | | 6 | Signable | 5 | 5% | | 7 | Adobe Acrobat Sign | 3 | 3% | | 8 | Documenso | 3 | 3% | ## What this means Agents almost never raise YouTrust without choosing it: 2 sessions raised against 9 chosen. When it gets considered, it usually wins. The constraint is how rarely it gets considered at all, which is a presence problem: templates, framework integrations and pages that answer the configuration and production questions agents actually search for. ## Where these numbers come from The 106 sessions in e-signature are part of a published set of 7,958, run with real coding agents inside realistic codebases and judged blind. The full method is on one page: [how we measured this](/library/how-we-measured-this). Every e-signature run can be replayed on [the board](/leaderboards/e-signature). If you work on YouTrust: the judge recorded a reason for every session where it was raised and passed over. Those reasons are in the transcripts. ## Common questions ### Do coding agents recommend YouTrust? Yes. YouTrust was chosen in 9 of the 106 judged sessions in e-signature, a 8% install share, ranking fourth in its category. ### Does Claude Code recommend YouTrust? In 2 of the 35 sessions in e-signature run with Claude Code, which is 6%. ### Do different coding agents treat YouTrust differently? Yes, and by a wide margin. Cursor chose it in 19% of its runs and Codex in 0%. ### How was this measured? Real coding agents at pinned versions were run in sandboxes inside 91 realistic codebases and asked to solve real tasks. A simulated project owner approved or questioned each recommendation before any code was written, and a judge from a model family that builds none of the agents read every session blind. ### How often is YouTrust considered but not chosen? It was raised as a candidate in 2 sessions without being chosen, and chosen in 9. That is a 82% conversion from considered to chosen. ## Read next - [How to get picked for e-signature by coding agents](https://armature.tech/library/e-signature-coding-agents-playbook) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/e-signature-coding-agents-playbook.md) - [Do coding agents recommend Dropbox Sign?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-dropbox-sign) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-dropbox-sign.md) - [Do coding agents recommend DocuSign?](https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-docusign) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-coding-agents-recommend-docusign.md) - [Do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor pick the same tools?](https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree) (Markdown: https://armature.tech/library/do-claude-code-and-codex-agree.md) --- Armature helps software products get discovered and used by coding agents. 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