Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/apache/answer/vs/datawhalechina/hello-agents
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/apache/answer/vs/datawhalechina/hello-agents.md
Description: answer and hello-agents share 8 technologies: Postgres, SQLite, MCP, OpenAI, Vite, React, react-router-dom, and marked. answer is written in Go and hello-agents in Python.

# answer vs hello-agents

answer and hello-agents share 8 technologies: Postgres, SQLite, MCP, OpenAI, Vite, React, react-router-dom, and marked. answer is written in Go and hello-agents in Python.

- [apache/answer](https://seerepo.com/r/apache/answer): A Q&A platform software for teams at any scales. Whether it's a community forum, help center, or knowledge management platform, you can always count on Apache Answer.
- [datawhalechina/hello-agents](https://seerepo.com/r/datawhalechina/hello-agents): 📚 《从零开始构建智能体》——从零开始的智能体原理与实践教程

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Postgres, SQLite, MCP, OpenAI, Vite, React, react-router-dom, marked
- Only in answer: Gin, pq, MySQL, xorm.io/xorm, xorm.io/builder, go-openai, mcp-go, github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday, github.com/disintegration/imaging, github.com/yuin/goldmark, golang.org/x/image, github.com/asaskevich/govalidator, github.com/go-playground/validator/v10, classnames, Bootstrap, react-bootstrap, CodeMirror, react-helmet-async, front-matter, qrcode
- Only in hello-agents: FastAPI, uvicorn, aiosqlite, asyncpg, psycopg2-binary, chromadb, Redis, oracledb, pymilvus, Qdrant, Hugging Face, Flask, fastmcp, starlette, anyio, AIOHTTP, Streamlit, Vue, vue-router, cycler, fonttools, contourpy, Plotly, Gradio, matplotlib, Rich, alembic, SQLAlchemy, bcrypt, accelerate, onnxruntime, peft, safetensors, tavily-python, tokenizers, torch, transformers, scikit-learn, sentence-transformers, tiktoken, datasets, langchain-openai, LangGraph, paddlenlp, rank-bm25, spaCy, lxml, markdown, openpyxl, pdfminer.six, pypdf, python-docx, reportlab, xlrd, pdfplumber, pillow, feedparser, pymupdf, beautifulsoup4, jinja2, annotated-types, email-validator, pydantic-core, Pydantic, jsonschema, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, loguru, D3, katex, Tailwind CSS, markdown-it, vue-flow, Chart.js, vue-chartjs, highlight.js, dompurify, react-markdown, Element, echarts, Leaflet, Mermaid, html2canvas, jspdf

## Side by side

| | answer | hello-agents |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 138,281 lines written, 837 code files | 226,661 lines written, 1,212 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | 2.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 5, 2026, 4,029 commits, 15,711 stars | Last push October 13, 2026, 660 commits, 86,039 stars |
| Tests | 58 test files. 13.1% of its code files have a test that imports them | 97 test files. 6.9% 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, answer or hello-agents?

hello-agents, with 226,661 lines written; answer has 138,281.

The proof: [datawhalechina/hello-agents's code at commit 36f583c](https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/36f583c233ea5cee4537ef93455702b55053af18)

### Which has more GitHub stars, answer or hello-agents?

hello-agents, with 86,039 stars; answer has 15,711.

The proof: [datawhalechina/hello-agents on GitHub](https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents)

### Which has more tests, answer or hello-agents?

hello-agents, with 97 test files; answer has 58.

The proof: [datawhalechina/hello-agents's code at commit 36f583c](https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/36f583c233ea5cee4537ef93455702b55053af18)

### Which was updated more recently, answer or hello-agents?

answer: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and hello-agents's on October 13, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, answer or hello-agents?

hello-agents: an AI signed 2.4% of its commits, with Codex, Cursor, and Claude Code; in answer, 0.1%.

## Sources

- apache/answer: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 6744295 (https://github.com/apache/answer/tree/6744295fa888e0621fc9f9a8ace04f1a4daf8554)
- datawhalechina/hello-agents: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 36f583c (https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/36f583c233ea5cee4537ef93455702b55053af18)

## 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.