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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 69,160 stars in the last 7 days against 8,072 for deepseek-harness, about 8.6 times as many.

In total, rea has 376k stars and 94.1k forks; deepseek-harness has 260k stars and 31.4k 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 (6 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 19,031 stars in the last 7 days against 9,054 for ponytail, about 2.1 times as many.

In total, ponytail has 175k stars and 9,553 forks; dsh-our-free-model has 40.8k stars and 1,162 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 (2 days ago); ponytail's latest release is v5.3.2 (7 days ago).

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MCP

solidcraft vs xerj

solidcraft gained 5,648 stars in the last 7 days against 4,848 for xerj (partly estimated), a close race.

In total, xerj has 15.2k stars and 1,040 forks; solidcraft has 9,912 stars and 1,213 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 (today); xerj's latest release is v1.0.0-rc.98 (2 days ago).

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Coding agents

orca vs magpie

orca gained 9,195 stars in the last 7 days against 5,588 for magpie, about 1.6 times as many.

In total, orca has 105k stars and 6,602 forks; magpie has 20.6k stars and 1,596 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 v1.4.239 (today); magpie's latest release is v0.1.1381 (today).

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RAG / vector

DeepTutor vs kividb

DeepTutor gained 899 stars in the last 7 days against 499 for kividb (partly estimated), about 1.8 times as many.

In total, DeepTutor has 42.5k stars and 5,388 forks; kividb has 540 stars and 16 forks.

DeepTutor is written mainly in Python and was created 10 months ago; kividb is mainly Rust, created 8 days ago.

DeepTutor's latest release is v1.6.15 (5 days ago); kividb's latest release is v1.1.2 (today).

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Local LLMs

DigUp vs StartLux-Decision

DigUp gained 1,131 stars in the last 7 days against 847 for StartLux-Decision, a close race.

In total, DigUp has 5,696 stars and 426 forks; StartLux-Decision has 1,472 stars and 133 forks.

DigUp is written mainly in Swift and was created 15 days ago; StartLux-Decision is mainly Python, created 25 days ago.

DigUp's latest release is v0.6.2 (2 days ago); StartLux-Decision's latest release is v1.1.0 (10 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.