Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/paperclipai/paperclip/vs/zaidmukaddam/scira
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/paperclipai/paperclip/vs/zaidmukaddam/scira.md
Description: paperclip and scira share 23 technologies: MCP, React, AWS S3, OpenAI, Anthropic, Zod, Drizzle, react-markdown, @daytonaio/sdk, three, Better Auth, Vercel, ai, OpenRouter, ai-sdk, sharp, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, Radix UI, motion, cmdk, and Lucide. Both are written in TypeScript.

# paperclip vs scira

paperclip and scira share 23 technologies: MCP, React, AWS S3, OpenAI, Anthropic, Zod, Drizzle, react-markdown, @daytonaio/sdk, three, Better Auth, Vercel, ai, OpenRouter, ai-sdk, sharp, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, Radix UI, motion, cmdk, and Lucide. Both are written in TypeScript.

- [paperclipai/paperclip](https://seerepo.com/r/paperclipai/paperclip): The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work
- [zaidmukaddam/scira](https://seerepo.com/r/zaidmukaddam/scira): Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: MCP, React, AWS S3, OpenAI, Anthropic, Zod, Drizzle, react-markdown, @daytonaio/sdk, three, Better Auth, Vercel, ai, OpenRouter, ai-sdk, sharp, Tailwind CSS, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, Radix UI, motion, cmdk, Lucide
- Only in paperclip: Express, embedded-postgres, Postgres, Google, aws-sdk-s3, Tokio, Vite, Sentry, Svix, react-router-dom, @spekoai/client, yaml, @opentelemetry/resources, @clack/prompts, acpx, Cursor, aws-sdk-sts, hmac, @agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp, aws-sdk-bedrockagentcore, remark-gfm, jsonschema, Ajv, @boxd-sh/sdk, Cloudflare, e2b, @kubernetes/client-node, novita-sandbox, chat, dompurify, ajv-formats, opentelemetry, pino, pino-http, dnd-kit, @mdxeditor/editor, lexical, @lezer/highlight, Base UI, CodeMirror, Mermaid, react-resizable-panels, xterm, @assistant-ui/react, mdast-util-from-markdown
- Only in scira: Next.js, Redis, @vercel/edge-config, @aws-sdk/s3-request-presigner, Dodo Payments, ElevenLabs, QStash, Resend, next-themes, @mathjax/mathjax-newcm-font, geist, Framer, json-render, visx, react-tweet, Leaflet, recharts, @paper-design/shaders-react, echarts-for-react, react-syntax-highlighter, web-haptics, @tanstack/react-table, canvas-confetti, embla-carousel-autoplay, embla-carousel-react, React Hook Form, react-day-picker, react-three, sonner, sugar-high, vaul, hugeicons, @phosphor-icons/react, @mendable/firecrawl-js, parallel-web, supermemory, @vectorstores/core, @tavily/core, ai-retry, ai-sdk-ollama, marked, @vectorstores/readers, katex, @mathjax/src, @react-email/components, docx, pdf-lib, remend

## Side by side

| | paperclip | scira |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 3,339,685 lines written, 5,329 code files | 123,391 lines written, 348 code files |
| Who writes it | 22.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Devin |
| Activity | Last push November 9, 2026, 6,723 commits, 112,381 stars | Last push August 12, 2026, 735 commits, 11,940 stars |
| Tests | 5,014 test files. 61.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1 test files. 1.4% 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, paperclip or scira?

paperclip, with 3,339,685 lines written; scira has 123,391.

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

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

paperclip, with 112,381 stars; scira has 11,940.

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

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

paperclip, with 5,014 test files; scira has 1.

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

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

paperclip: its last push was on November 9, 2026, and scira's on August 12, 2026.

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

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

paperclip: an AI signed 22.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; in scira, 0.3%.

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

## Sources

- paperclipai/paperclip: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 5a51a76 (https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/5a51a7685d75a83846722a5d99962f8bf0a96902)
- zaidmukaddam/scira: Read on November 11, 2026, at commit e1692f5 (https://github.com/zaidmukaddam/scira/tree/e1692f5bdec7ec3f6482a24e0c6cf9b483d810f9)

## 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.