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.
What they share and what sets them apart
akitaonrails
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
- Tauri
- candle-core
- candle-nn
- candle-transformers
tokenizers
askama
- jsonc-parser
- zip
- lopdf
- quick-xml
In common
atuinsh
atuin
✨ Making your shell magical
Rust32.2kRead on November 7, 2026, at commit 28fcb3dWhat is atuin built with?Only in atuin
- sqlx-mysql
- sqlx-postgres
- sqlx-sqlite
- sqlx
libsqlite3-sys
- MySQL
- Postgres
objc2-foundation
- Ratatui
- ratatui-core
- indicatif
ansi-to-tui
- sql-builder
rpassword
minijinja
- plist
- yaml-rust2
- metrics
- listenfd
- metrics-exporter-prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
opentelemetry-otlp
tracing-futures
- tracing-opentelemetry
Side by side
ai-memoryatuin
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.
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.
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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