Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/bojieli/ai-agent-book/vs/zhayujie/CowAgent
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Description: ai-agent-book and CowAgent share 11 technologies: React, AIOHTTP, Vite, tiktoken, pillow, python-pptx, pypdf, python-docx, openpyxl, Tailwind CSS, and Lucide. Both are written in Python.

# ai-agent-book vs CowAgent

ai-agent-book and CowAgent share 11 technologies: React, AIOHTTP, Vite, tiktoken, pillow, python-pptx, pypdf, python-docx, openpyxl, Tailwind CSS, and Lucide. Both are written in Python.

- [bojieli/ai-agent-book](https://seerepo.com/r/bojieli/ai-agent-book): 《深入理解 AI Agent：设计原理与工程实践》（李博杰 著）开源主仓库：全书正文、编译版 PDF 与按章配套代码
- [zhayujie/CowAgent](https://seerepo.com/r/zhayujie/CowAgent): Open-source personal AI assistant & Agent Harness. Plans tasks, runs tools and skills, self-evolves with memory and knowledge. Multi-agent, multi-model, multi-channel. Lightweight, extensible, one-line install.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: React, AIOHTTP, Vite, tiktoken, pillow, python-pptx, pypdf, python-docx, openpyxl, Tailwind CSS, Lucide
- Only in ai-agent-book: uvicorn, FastAPI, azure-search-documents, azure-storage-blob, chromadb, psycopg2-binary, Postgres, pyarrow, OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Google, PostHog, fastmcp, Flask, anyio, Next.js, Express, Astro, mkdocs-material, Rich, matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly, authlib, google-auth, google-auth-httplib2, google-auth-oauthlib, pyotp, accelerate, bitsandbytes, cut-cross-entropy, faiss-cpu, lightgbm, mem0ai, nltk, openai-whisper, scikit-image, sentencepiece, triton, xformers, torch, transformers, MCP, peft, datasets, litellm, Ollama, scikit-learn, rank-bm25, groq, librosa, trl, snac, torchaudio, opencv-python, sentence-transformers, langchain-openai, mlx-audio, vLLM, lxml, python-magic, torchcodec, xlrd, xlsxwriter, beautifulsoup4, pypdf2, reportlab, html2text, markdown, pdfplumber, pymupdf, sendgrid, youtube-transcript-api, yt-dlp, Pydantic, structlog, loguru, psutil, pptxgenjs, sharp, D3, recharts, onnxruntime-node, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, Radix UI, react-syntax-highlighter, react-markdown, remark-gfm, katex
- Only in CowAgent: react-router-dom, Electron, dashscope, gtts, markdown-it-py, qrcode, highlight.js, markdown-it

## Side by side

| | ai-agent-book | CowAgent |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 422,447 lines written, 1,067 code files | 282,546 lines written, 555 code files |
| Who writes it | 20.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 2.7% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex |
| Activity | Last push October 8, 2026, 1,610 commits, 57,240 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 3,243 commits, 47,806 stars |
| Tests | 624 test files. 34.3% of its code files have a test that imports them | 669 test files. 50.8% 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, ai-agent-book or CowAgent?

ai-agent-book, with 422,447 lines written; CowAgent has 282,546.

The proof: [bojieli/ai-agent-book's code at commit dbc046e](https://github.com/bojieli/ai-agent-book/tree/dbc046eb896ac4e39aa19c7774c8bf49583b89a6)

### Which has more GitHub stars, ai-agent-book or CowAgent?

ai-agent-book, with 57,240 stars; CowAgent has 47,806.

The proof: [bojieli/ai-agent-book on GitHub](https://github.com/bojieli/ai-agent-book)

### Which has more tests, ai-agent-book or CowAgent?

CowAgent, with 669 test files; ai-agent-book has 624.

The proof: [zhayujie/CowAgent's code at commit ee317c4](https://github.com/zhayujie/CowAgent/tree/ee317c4afe048d5c3b42ef9422c6905071f56c68)

### Which was updated more recently, ai-agent-book or CowAgent?

CowAgent: its last push was on November 5, 2026, and ai-agent-book's on October 8, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, ai-agent-book or CowAgent?

ai-agent-book: an AI signed 20.8% of its commits, with Claude Code; in CowAgent, 2.7%.

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

## Sources

- bojieli/ai-agent-book: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit dbc046e (https://github.com/bojieli/ai-agent-book/tree/dbc046eb896ac4e39aa19c7774c8bf49583b89a6)
- zhayujie/CowAgent: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit ee317c4 (https://github.com/zhayujie/CowAgent/tree/ee317c4afe048d5c3b42ef9422c6905071f56c68)

## 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.