ai-memory vs atuin

ai-memory and atuin share 13 technologies: axum, tower, rusqlite, SQLite, Tokio, crossterm, argon2, rmcp, pulldown-cmark, schemars, tracing, tracing-subscriber, and tracing-appender. Both are written in Rust.

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What they share and what sets them apart

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ai-memory

Solution for long term memory for agent coding CLIs and to facilitate handoff between different agent vendors

Rust15.4kRead on November 8, 2026, at commit fec76f1What is ai-memory built with?

Only in ai-memory

In common

Only in atuin

Side by side

SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
ai-memory653,695 lines written418 code files
atuin240,516 lines written561 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-memory37.4% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot
atuin1.2% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
ai-memoryLast push November 8, 20263,915 commits15,357 stars
atuinLast push November 7, 20262,555 commits32,230 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
ai-memory248 test files27.5% of its code files have a test that imports them
atuin64 test files15.3% of its code files have a test that imports them

Frequently asked questions

Which is bigger, ai-memory or atuin?
ai-memory, with 653,695 lines written; atuin has 240,516.

The proof: akitaonrails/ai-memory's code at commit fec76f1

Which has more GitHub stars, ai-memory or atuin?
atuin, with 32,230 stars; ai-memory has 15,357.

The proof: atuinsh/atuin on GitHub

Which has more tests, ai-memory or atuin?
ai-memory, with 248 test files; atuin has 64.

The proof: akitaonrails/ai-memory's code at commit fec76f1

Which was updated more recently, ai-memory or atuin?
ai-memory: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and atuin's on November 7, 2026.

The proof: akitaonrails/ai-memory's commits on GitHub

Which has more commits signed by AI, ai-memory or atuin?
ai-memory: an AI signed 37.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and GitHub Copilot; in atuin, 1.2%.

The proof: the commits each tool signed in akitaonrails/ai-memory

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