Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/a16z-infra/ai-town/vs/aaif-goose/goose
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/a16z-infra/ai-town/vs/aaif-goose/goose.md
Description: ai-town and goose share 4 technologies: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, and react-toastify. ai-town is written in TypeScript and goose in Rust.

# 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.

- [a16z-infra/ai-town](https://seerepo.com/r/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.
- [aaif-goose/goose](https://seerepo.com/r/aaif-goose/goose): an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, Tailwind CSS, react-toastify
- Only in ai-town: Convex, Replicate, pixi.js, pixi-viewport, uplot, react-modal, usehooks-ts, Clerk
- 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-town | goose |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 16,088 lines written, 109 code files | 424,209 lines written, 1,022 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 4.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Amp, Codex, and Warp |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 986 commits, 10,794 stars | Last push November 13, 2026, 5,985 commits, 56,507 stars |
| Tests | 7 test files. 6.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 239 test files. 20.2% 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, 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](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/tree/3c50f8002b8f71e60c4b7ad32d4e013f23045605)

### 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](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose)

### 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](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/tree/3c50f8002b8f71e60c4b7ad32d4e013f23045605)

### 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](https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/commits)

### 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%.

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

## Sources

- a16z-infra/ai-town: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit 1b2f7d8 (https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town/tree/1b2f7d8b824c7bc679017a091d9d45ba3dc3029e)
- aaif-goose/goose: Read on November 13, 2026, at commit 3c50f80 (https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/tree/3c50f8002b8f71e60c4b7ad32d4e013f23045605)

## 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.