Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/awslabs/mcp/vs/datawhalechina/hello-agents
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/awslabs/mcp/vs/datawhalechina/hello-agents.md
Description: mcp and hello-agents share 17 technologies: Postgres, oracledb, FastAPI, fastmcp, starlette, uvicorn, bcrypt, langdetect, OpenAI, MCP, jinja2, beautifulsoup4, lxml, pdfplumber, Pydantic, loguru, and kubernetes. Both are written in Python.

# mcp vs hello-agents

mcp and hello-agents share 17 technologies: Postgres, oracledb, FastAPI, fastmcp, starlette, uvicorn, bcrypt, langdetect, OpenAI, MCP, jinja2, beautifulsoup4, lxml, pdfplumber, Pydantic, loguru, and kubernetes. Both are written in Python.

- [awslabs/mcp](https://seerepo.com/r/awslabs/mcp): Open source MCP Servers for AWS
- [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, oracledb, FastAPI, fastmcp, starlette, uvicorn, bcrypt, langdetect, OpenAI, MCP, jinja2, beautifulsoup4, lxml, pdfplumber, Pydantic, loguru, kubernetes
- Only in mcp: cassandra-driver, psycopg, pymongo, valkey-glide, pyarrow, MongoDB, pyiceberg, asyncmy, daft, ibm-db, pika, pymssql, InfluxDB, sqlglot, authlib, bedrock-agentcore, python-frontmatter, readabilipy, defusedxml, markdownify, markitdown, pdf2image, ruamel-yaml, openapi-spec-validator, prance, coloredlogs, docker, python-json-logger, botocore, boto3, psutil
- Only in hello-agents: aiosqlite, asyncpg, psycopg2-binary, chromadb, Redis, SQLite, libsql-client, pymilvus, Qdrant, Hugging Face, Flask, python, React, react-dom, anyio, AIOHTTP, Streamlit, Vite, Vue, vue-router, react-router-dom, cycler, fonttools, soupsieve, contourpy, ipywidgets, Plotly, Gradio, matplotlib, Rich, seaborn, alembic, SQLAlchemy, python-jose, passlib, accelerate, bitsandbytes, camel-ai, mermaid, onnxruntime, peft, safetensors, tavily-python, textblob, tokenizers, hello-agents, torch, transformers, agentscope, scikit-learn, sentence-transformers, tiktoken, autogen-agentchat, autogen-ext, datasets, langchain-openai, LangGraph, paddlenlp, rank-bm25, spaCy, imaplib2, markdown, openpyxl, pdfminer.six, pypdf, python-docx, reportlab, xlrd, pillow, feedparser, pymupdf, pypdf2, pymupdf4llm, annotated-types, email-validator, jsonschema, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc, ant-design-vue, D3, @ant-design/icons-vue, katex, Tailwind CSS, markdown-it, vue-flow, @monaco-editor/loader, Chart.js, vue-chartjs, highlight.js, dompurify, marked, react-markdown, Element, vue-echarts, echarts, @element-plus/icons-vue, Leaflet, @amap/amap-jsapi-loader, html2canvas, jspdf

## Side by side

| | mcp | hello-agents |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 970,557 lines written, 1,184 code files | 227,369 lines written, 1,215 code files |
| Who writes it | 2.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Codex | 3.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor |
| Activity | Last push November 13, 2026, 2,089 commits, 9,918 stars | Last push November 11, 2026, 667 commits, 86,829 stars |
| Tests | 1,401 test files. 77.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 103 test files. 6.8% 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, mcp or hello-agents?

mcp, with 970,557 lines written; hello-agents has 227,369.

The proof: [awslabs/mcp's code at commit 5d58a6a](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/tree/5d58a6adaf89a056d0c14e732593dceb12e633df)

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

hello-agents, with 86,829 stars; mcp has 9,918.

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

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

mcp, with 1,401 test files; hello-agents has 103.

The proof: [awslabs/mcp's code at commit 5d58a6a](https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/tree/5d58a6adaf89a056d0c14e732593dceb12e633df)

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

mcp: its last push was on November 13, 2026, and hello-agents's on November 11, 2026.

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

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

hello-agents: an AI signed 3.3% of its commits, with Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor; in mcp, 2.4%.

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

## Sources

- awslabs/mcp: Read on November 14, 2026, at commit 5d58a6a (https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/tree/5d58a6adaf89a056d0c14e732593dceb12e633df)
- datawhalechina/hello-agents: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 2a506bc (https://github.com/datawhalechina/hello-agents/tree/2a506bc7e0e3e2235435559b7f2825057ce9a09c)

## 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.