Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/different-ai/openwork/vs/morluto/rea
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/different-ai/openwork/vs/morluto/rea.md
Description: openwork and rea share 5 technologies: MCP, xterm, Zod, Ajv, and yaml. Both are written in TypeScript.

# openwork vs rea

openwork and rea share 5 technologies: MCP, xterm, Zod, Ajv, and yaml. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [different-ai/openwork](https://seerepo.com/r/different-ai/openwork): The open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (powered by opencode)
- [morluto/rea](https://seerepo.com/r/morluto/rea): Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: MCP, xterm, Zod, Ajv, yaml
- Only in openwork: Vite, React Router, React, Sentry, Electron, Next.js, Redis, Stripe, Hono, PostHog, MySQL, PlanetScale, Resend, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, motion, sonner, CodeMirror, lexical, @tanstack/react-virtual, Mermaid, Lucide, @heroicons/react, ai, marked, dompurify, shiki, htmlparser2, katex, Drizzle, @ai-sdk/provider, Better Auth, jose, sharp, fast-xml-parser, sanitize-html, @standard-schema/spec, @hono/node-server, opentelemetry, recharts, cmdk, Framer, react-email, nodemailer
- Only in rea: @clack/prompts, cairosvg, @xmldom/xmldom, plist, parse5, saxes, ajv-formats, har-schema, pino

## Side by side

| | openwork | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 954,486 lines written, 3,280 code files | 1,668,610 lines written, 2,423 code files |
| Who writes it | 3% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, and Warp | 16.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Factory, GitHub Copilot, and Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 6,571 commits, 24,396 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 5,979 commits, 428,191 stars |
| Tests | 822 test files. 27.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 3,518 test files. 66.6% 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, openwork or rea?

rea, with 1,668,610 lines written in 2,423 code files; openwork has 954,486 in 3,280.

The proof: [morluto/rea's code at commit d7df9df](https://github.com/morluto/rea/tree/d7df9df3393f77c78a76a06144ff4f515d5db928)

### Which has more GitHub stars, openwork or rea?

rea, with 428,191 stars; openwork has 24,396.

The proof: [morluto/rea on GitHub](https://github.com/morluto/rea)

### Which has more tests, openwork or rea?

rea, with 3,518 test files; openwork has 822.

The proof: [morluto/rea's code at commit d7df9df](https://github.com/morluto/rea/tree/d7df9df3393f77c78a76a06144ff4f515d5db928)

### Which was updated more recently, openwork or rea?

Both got their last push on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [different-ai/openwork's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, openwork or rea?

rea: an AI signed 16.3% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Factory, GitHub Copilot, and Devin; in openwork, 3%.

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

## Sources

- different-ai/openwork: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 2fff515 (https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/tree/2fff515e6b6cab8a362dcbfff6b0fac983696bf2)
- morluto/rea: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit d7df9df (https://github.com/morluto/rea/tree/d7df9df3393f77c78a76a06144ff4f515d5db928)

## 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.