Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/NVIDIA/OpenShell/vs/zed-industries/zed
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/NVIDIA/OpenShell/vs/zed-industries/zed.md
Description: OpenShell and zed share 11 technologies: axum, sqlx, Postgres, Tokio, tower, dialoguer, console, jsonwebtoken, jsonschema, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

# OpenShell vs zed

OpenShell and zed share 11 technologies: axum, sqlx, Postgres, Tokio, tower, dialoguer, console, jsonwebtoken, jsonschema, tracing, and tracing-subscriber. Both are written in Rust.

- [NVIDIA/OpenShell](https://seerepo.com/r/NVIDIA/OpenShell): OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents.
- [zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed): Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: axum, sqlx, Postgres, Tokio, tower, dialoguer, console, jsonwebtoken, jsonschema, tracing, tracing-subscriber
- Only in OpenShell: net/http, sqlx-postgres, sqlx-sqlite, SQLite, Ratatui, crossterm, indicatif, golang.org/x/oauth2, oauth2, aws-sdk-sts, hmac, OpenTelemetry, metrics, kube, k8s-openapi, tracing-opentelemetry, bollard, opentelemetry-otlp, tracing-appender, opentelemetry-http
- Only in zed: aws-sdk-s3, lru, AWS S3, GitHub, gpui, gpui_tokio, smol, objc2-foundation, objc2-app-kit, tiny_http, core-services, swash, gpui_platform, accesskit, wgpu, objc2-quartz-core, objc2-ui-kit, x11rb, core-graphics, wayland-client, taffy, xkbcommon, cosmic-text, rpassword, markdown, image, quick-xml, pulldown-cmark, html5ever, linkify, handlebars, plist, resvg, ttf-parser, schemars, log, env_logger

## Side by side

| | OpenShell | zed |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 796,056 lines written, 725 code files | 1,835,785 lines written, 1,779 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 1,961 commits, 21,127 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 37,547 commits, 92,679 stars |
| Tests | 383 test files. 39.2% of its code files have a test that imports them | 140 test files. 18.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, OpenShell or zed?

zed, with 1,835,785 lines written; OpenShell has 796,056.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed's code at commit e21ff1b](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

### Which has more GitHub stars, OpenShell or zed?

zed, with 92,679 stars; OpenShell has 21,127.

The proof: [zed-industries/zed on GitHub](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed)

### Which has more tests, OpenShell or zed?

OpenShell, with 383 test files; zed has 140.

The proof: [NVIDIA/OpenShell's code at commit d9a9196](https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/tree/d9a9196f275eb9eb5146717a11fc0772b1233392)

### Which was updated more recently, OpenShell or zed?

OpenShell: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and zed's on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [NVIDIA/OpenShell's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, OpenShell or zed?

zed: an AI signed 0.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, Factory, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI; in OpenShell, 0.3%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in zed-industries/zed](https://seerepo.com/r/zed-industries/zed/ai)

## Sources

- NVIDIA/OpenShell: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit d9a9196 (https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell/tree/d9a9196f275eb9eb5146717a11fc0772b1233392)
- zed-industries/zed: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit e21ff1b (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/tree/e21ff1b368b074586e4dae0d9bbf15d5dd8a1476)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.