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This week's head-to-heads

The two fastest-rising repos in each category over the last 7 days, compared on stars gained, total stars, forks, language, age and releases.

AI agents

rea vs deepseek-harness

rea gained 65,966 stars in the last 7 days against 7,329 for deepseek-harness, about 9.0 times as many.

In total, rea has 373k stars and 93.4k forks; deepseek-harness has 259k stars and 31.3k forks.

Both are written mainly in TypeScript. rea was created 6 months ago and deepseek-harness 2 months ago.

rea's latest release is rea-agents-6.7.0 (5 days ago); deepseek-harness has no tagged release yet.

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LLM tooling

dsh-our-free-model vs ponytail

dsh-our-free-model gained 17,416 stars in the last 7 days against 8,590 for ponytail, about 2.0 times as many.

In total, ponytail has 175k stars and 9,519 forks; dsh-our-free-model has 39.2k stars and 1,123 forks.

Both are written mainly in JavaScript. dsh-our-free-model was created 29 days ago and ponytail 4 months ago.

dsh-our-free-model's latest release is v2.5.9-macos-unofficial (yesterday); ponytail's latest release is v5.3.2 (7 days ago).

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MCP

solidcraft vs xerj

solidcraft gained 5,463 stars in the last 7 days against 3,127 for xerj (partly estimated), about 1.7 times as many.

In total, xerj has 14.2k stars and 979 forks; solidcraft has 9,727 stars and 1,179 forks.

Both are written mainly in Rust. solidcraft was created 16 days ago and xerj 4 months ago.

solidcraft's latest release is v0.21.0-rc.2 (today); xerj's latest release is v1.0.0-rc.98 (yesterday).

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Coding agents

orca vs magpie

orca gained 8,523 stars in the last 7 days against 5,189 for magpie, about 1.6 times as many.

In total, orca has 104k stars and 6,563 forks; magpie has 20.2k stars and 1,559 forks.

orca is written mainly in TypeScript and was created 7 months ago; magpie is mainly Go, created 30 days ago.

orca's latest release is v1.4.237 (2 days ago); magpie's latest release is v0.1.1358 (today).

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RAG / vector

DeepTutor vs kividb

DeepTutor gained 724 stars in the last 7 days against 494 for kividb (partly estimated), a close race.

In total, DeepTutor has 42.3k stars and 5,369 forks; kividb has 535 stars and 15 forks.

DeepTutor is written mainly in Python and was created 10 months ago; kividb is mainly Rust, created 7 days ago.

DeepTutor's latest release is v1.6.15 (5 days ago); kividb's latest release is v1.1.1 (today).

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Local LLMs

DigUp vs StartLux-Decision

DigUp gained 1,093 stars in the last 7 days against 799 for StartLux-Decision, a close race.

In total, DigUp has 5,658 stars and 418 forks; StartLux-Decision has 1,424 stars and 124 forks.

DigUp is written mainly in Swift and was created 15 days ago; StartLux-Decision is mainly Python, created 24 days ago.

DigUp's latest release is v0.6.2 (2 days ago); StartLux-Decision's latest release is v1.1.0 (9 days ago).

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How to compare open-source repos

Stars
GitHub's bookmark button. A high total means many developers noticed the project at some point; it says little about whether it is still maintained.
Stars gained (24 hours, 7 days)
Momentum. OSS Radar ranks repos by these gains, so a young project gaining fast can outrank an older one with far more total stars.
Forks
Copies people made to change the code. Many forks relative to stars usually means people are building on it, not just bookmarking it.
Last code push and latest release
Maintenance signals. A recent push shows someone is still working on it; tagged releases show versions you can pin to.
Hacker News
How many HN stories linked the repo and how many points they drew: a rough measure of discussion outside GitHub.

Stars, forks, pushes and releases come from the public GitHub API and are refreshed hourly; Hacker News figures come from HN's public search API. Sponsors never affect rankings or comparisons.