Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/charmbracelet/crush/vs/siyuan-note/siyuan
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/charmbracelet/crush/vs/siyuan-note/siyuan.md
Description: crush and siyuan share 6 technologies: SQLite, MCP, golang.org/x/oauth2, Model Context Protocol, github.com/disintegration/imaging, and github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery. Both are written in Go.

# crush vs siyuan

crush and siyuan share 6 technologies: SQLite, MCP, golang.org/x/oauth2, Model Context Protocol, github.com/disintegration/imaging, and github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery. Both are written in Go.

- [charmbracelet/crush](https://seerepo.com/r/charmbracelet/crush): Glamourous agentic coding for all 💘
- [siyuan-note/siyuan](https://seerepo.com/r/siyuan-note/siyuan): An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间，让人与智能体在此协作

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: SQLite, MCP, golang.org/x/oauth2, Model Context Protocol, github.com/disintegration/imaging, github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery
- Only in crush: net/http, github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3, github.com/pressly/goose/v3, PostHog, charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charm.land/bubbletea/v2, charm.land/bubbles/v2, github.com/charmbracelet/ultraviolet, charm.land/glamour/v2, github.com/gen2brain/beeep, github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown, github.com/invopop/jsonschema, gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2
- Only in siyuan: Gin, go-sqlite3, github.com/patrickmn/go-cache, OpenAI, Electron, github.com/gin-contrib/sessions, github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4, github.com/coreos/go-oidc/v3, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5, go-openai, github.com/pkoukk/tiktoken-go, golang.org/x/image, github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu, github.com/klippa-app/go-pdfium, github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday, github.com/richardlehane/mscfb, github.com/xuri/excelize/v2, github.com/google/jsonschema-go, Sass, PostCSS, postcss-selector-parser, zxcvbn

## Side by side

| | crush | siyuan |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 200,570 lines written, 464 code files | 1,029,659 lines written, 2,364 code files |
| Who writes it | 6.9% of its commits signed by AI. With Crush, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With GitHub Copilot and Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 4,177 commits, 28,993 stars | Last push November 5, 2026, 27,022 commits, 47,092 stars |
| Tests | 433 test files. 80.4% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,378 test files. 69.6% 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, crush or siyuan?

siyuan, with 1,029,659 lines written; crush has 200,570.

The proof: [siyuan-note/siyuan's code at commit d3af9d5](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/tree/d3af9d5782082b379d45a69eedf4ebcfe8ba6889)

### Which has more GitHub stars, crush or siyuan?

siyuan, with 47,092 stars; crush has 28,993.

The proof: [siyuan-note/siyuan on GitHub](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan)

### Which has more tests, crush or siyuan?

siyuan, with 2,378 test files; crush has 433.

The proof: [siyuan-note/siyuan's code at commit d3af9d5](https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/tree/d3af9d5782082b379d45a69eedf4ebcfe8ba6889)

### Which was updated more recently, crush or siyuan?

crush: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and siyuan's on November 5, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, crush or siyuan?

crush: an AI signed 6.9% of its commits, with Crush, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot; in siyuan, 0.1%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in charmbracelet/crush](https://seerepo.com/r/charmbracelet/crush/ai)

## Sources

- charmbracelet/crush: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 8f1f029 (https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/tree/8f1f02951cabc30b82e497fd916ca434bad1e6f4)
- siyuan-note/siyuan: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit d3af9d5 (https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/tree/d3af9d5782082b379d45a69eedf4ebcfe8ba6889)

## 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.