ai-town vs goose
ai-town and goose share 4 technologies: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, and react-toastify. ai-town is written in TypeScript and goose in Rust.
What they share and what sets them apart
a16z-infra
ai-town
A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.
TypeScript10.8kRead on November 13, 2026, at commit 1b2f7d8What is ai-town built with?Only in ai-town
- Convex
- Replicate
pixi.js
- pixi-viewport
uplot
react-modal
usehooks-ts
- Clerk
In common
aaif-goose
goose
an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
Rust56.5kRead on November 13, 2026, at commit 3c50f80What is goose built with?Only in goose
- axum
- sqlx
- lru
- AIOHTTP
- Tokio
- axum-server
- React Router
- Express
- Electron
- MCP
- console
- cliclack
- comfy-table
- indicatif
- keyring
- oauth2
- rmcp
agent-client-protocol
aws-sdk-bedrockruntime
- llama-cpp-2
- safemlx-lm
agent-client-protocol-schema
aws-sdk-sagemakerruntime
- candle-core
- candle-nn
- candle-transformers
- hf-hub
- llama-cpp-sys-2
- safemlx
- safemlx-lm-utils
- tiktoken-rs
tokenizers
minijinja
- v_htmlescape
- image
docx-rs
- lopdf
- pulldown-cmark
- qrcode
- symphonia
- umya-spreadsheet
- zip
- schemars
- jsonschema
tracing
tracing-futures
tracing-subscriber
- OpenTelemetry
- tracing-opentelemetry
opentelemetry-appender-tracing
opentelemetry-otlp
opentelemetry-stdout
tracing-appender
class-variance-authority
tailwind-merge
- Radix UI
- TanStack
- Framer
- @mcp-ui/client
- react-select
react-syntax-highlighter
- Lucide
@agentclientprotocol/sdk
katex
- react-markdown
rehype-katex
remark-breaks
remark-gfm
remark-math
- turndown
- Zod
- electron-log
- electron-squirrel-startup
Side by side
ai-towngoose
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
ai-town16,088 lines written109 code files
goose424,209 lines written1,022 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
ai-town0.1% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code
goose4.9% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amp, Codex, and Warp
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
ai-townLast push November 5, 2026986 commits10,794 stars
gooseLast push November 13, 20265,985 commits56,507 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
ai-town7 test files6.4% of its code files have a test that imports them
goose239 test files20.2% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, ai-town or goose?
goose, with 424,209 lines written; ai-town has 16,088.
The proof: aaif-goose/goose's code at commit 3c50f80
Which has more GitHub stars, ai-town or goose?
goose, with 56,507 stars; ai-town has 10,794.
The proof: aaif-goose/goose on GitHub
Which has more tests, ai-town or goose?
goose, with 239 test files; ai-town has 7.
The proof: aaif-goose/goose's code at commit 3c50f80
Which was updated more recently, ai-town or goose?
goose: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and ai-town's on November 5, 2026.
The proof: aaif-goose/goose's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, ai-town or goose?
goose: an AI signed 4.9% of its commits, with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amp, Codex, and Warp; in ai-town, 0.1%.
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