Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emdash-cms/emdash/vs/paperclipai/paperclip
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/emdash-cms/emdash/vs/paperclipai/paperclip.md
Description: emdash and paperclip share 13 technologies: Vite, React, Postgres, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, dnd-kit, @lezer/highlight, CodeMirror, dompurify, Zod, @clack/prompts, and yaml. Both are written in TypeScript.

# emdash vs paperclip

emdash and paperclip share 13 technologies: Vite, React, Postgres, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, dnd-kit, @lezer/highlight, CodeMirror, dompurify, Zod, @clack/prompts, and yaml. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [emdash-cms/emdash](https://seerepo.com/r/emdash-cms/emdash): EmDash is a full-stack TypeScript CMS based on Astro; the spiritual successor to WordPress
- [paperclipai/paperclip](https://seerepo.com/r/paperclipai/paperclip): The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Vite, React, Postgres, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, dnd-kit, @lezer/highlight, CodeMirror, dompurify, Zod, @clack/prompts, yaml
- Only in emdash: Hono, Astro, @tanstack/react-router, @phosphor-icons/react, jose, marked, sanitize-html, image-size, tiptap, react-day-picker, react-hotkeys-hook, @floating-ui/react, lowlight, react-image-crop, highlight.js, kysely, echarts, lightningcss, @astrojs/cloudflare, arctic, blurhash, jpeg-js, sax, upng-js, @apidevtools/swagger-parser, zod-openapi, parse5, @astro-community/astro-embed-youtube
- Only in paperclip: Express, embedded-postgres, Google, aws-sdk-s3, AWS S3, Tokio, OpenAI, Anthropic, Sentry, Svix, react-router-dom, @spekoai/client, @opentelemetry/resources, Drizzle, acpx, Cursor, aws-sdk-sts, hmac, @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp, aws-sdk-bedrockagentcore, react-markdown, remark-gfm, jsonschema, Ajv, @boxd-sh/sdk, Cloudflare, @daytonaio/sdk, e2b, @kubernetes/client-node, novita-sandbox, three, Better Auth, Vercel, chat, ai, OpenRouter, ai-sdk, sharp, ajv-formats, opentelemetry, pino, pino-http, class-variance-authority, Radix UI, motion, @mdxeditor/editor, lexical, Base UI, cmdk, Mermaid, react-resizable-panels, xterm, Lucide, @assistant-ui/react, mdast-util-from-markdown

## Side by side

| | emdash | paperclip |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,316,006 lines written, 2,085 code files | 3,339,685 lines written, 5,329 code files |
| Who writes it | 8.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Amp | 22.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 9, 2026, 2,843 commits, 14,309 stars | Last push November 9, 2026, 6,723 commits, 112,381 stars |
| Tests | 1,954 test files. 59.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 5,014 test files. 61.5% 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, emdash or paperclip?

paperclip, with 3,339,685 lines written; emdash has 1,316,006.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip's code at commit 5a51a76](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/5a51a7685d75a83846722a5d99962f8bf0a96902)

### Which has more GitHub stars, emdash or paperclip?

paperclip, with 112,381 stars; emdash has 14,309.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip on GitHub](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip)

### Which has more tests, emdash or paperclip?

paperclip, with 5,014 test files; emdash has 1,954.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip's code at commit 5a51a76](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/5a51a7685d75a83846722a5d99962f8bf0a96902)

### Which was updated more recently, emdash or paperclip?

Both got their last push on November 9, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, emdash or paperclip?

paperclip: an AI signed 22.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; in emdash, 8.5%.

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

## Sources

- emdash-cms/emdash: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 2ae29db (https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/tree/2ae29db9a0ab4519b2ce97c1af22516f867ff058)
- paperclipai/paperclip: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 5a51a76 (https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/5a51a7685d75a83846722a5d99962f8bf0a96902)

## 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.