Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gastownhall/beads/vs/The-Vibe-Company/quivr
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gastownhall/beads/vs/The-Vibe-Company/quivr.md
Description: beads and quivr share 7 technologies: net/http, Pydantic, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. Both are written in Go.

# beads vs quivr

beads and quivr share 7 technologies: net/http, Pydantic, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric. Both are written in Go.

- [gastownhall/beads](https://seerepo.com/r/gastownhall/beads): Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- [The-Vibe-Company/quivr](https://seerepo.com/r/The-Vibe-Company/quivr): An open-source engine that turns continuous content streams into search and monitoring. Durable ingestion, hybrid search, alerts, and plugins for formats, models and business rules.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: net/http, Pydantic, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric
- Only in beads: go-sqlite3, MySQL, SQLite, Anthropic, fastmcp, charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charm.land/glamour/v2, charm.land/huh/v2, github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/v2, github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday, github.com/yuin/goldmark, github.com/invopop/jsonschema, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutmetric
- Only in quivr: pgx, psycopg, pyarrow, s3, Postgres, MCP, Temporal, Vite, React, cryptography, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, Model Context Protocol, Optuna, sentence-transformers, tokenizers, defusedxml, pypdf, annotated-types, jsonschema-path, jsonschema-specifications, openapi-schema-validator, rfc3339-validator, github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v6, jsonschema, openapi-spec-validator, referencing, boto3, opentelemetry-api, go.opentelemetry.io/otel, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp, @phosphor-icons/react

## Side by side

| | beads | quivr |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,299,687 lines written, 1,440 code files | 274,640 lines written, 613 code files |
| Who writes it | 41.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Factory, Devin, and Kilo Code | 9.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 10,396 commits, 28,583 stars | Last push November 2, 2026, 2,835 commits, 39,633 stars |
| Tests | 2,621 test files. 86.1% of its code files have a test that imports them | 567 test files. 65.1% 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, beads or quivr?

beads, with 1,299,687 lines written; quivr has 274,640.

The proof: [gastownhall/beads's code at commit 2edea9c](https://github.com/gastownhall/beads/tree/2edea9ced8c6f6124b6c157896ae53a0e09ff7be)

### Which has more GitHub stars, beads or quivr?

quivr, with 39,633 stars; beads has 28,583.

The proof: [The-Vibe-Company/quivr on GitHub](https://github.com/The-Vibe-Company/quivr)

### Which has more tests, beads or quivr?

beads, with 2,621 test files; quivr has 567.

The proof: [gastownhall/beads's code at commit 2edea9c](https://github.com/gastownhall/beads/tree/2edea9ced8c6f6124b6c157896ae53a0e09ff7be)

### Which was updated more recently, beads or quivr?

beads: its last push was on November 8, 2026, and quivr's on November 2, 2026.

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

### Which has more commits signed by AI, beads or quivr?

beads: an AI signed 41.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Factory, Devin, and Kilo Code; in quivr, 9.1%.

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

## Sources

- gastownhall/beads: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 2edea9c (https://github.com/gastownhall/beads/tree/2edea9ced8c6f6124b6c157896ae53a0e09ff7be)
- The-Vibe-Company/quivr: Read on November 6, 2026, at commit bb1b19e (https://github.com/The-Vibe-Company/quivr/tree/bb1b19ecf4094dbd1e309e521ce8b5fed4fb539f)

## 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.