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huginn vs claude-devtools
huginn has 49,976 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. claude-devtools has 3,942 stars, 297 forks, 50 open issues and last shipped 4 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 1,168% (49,976 vs 3,942 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; claude-devtools is written in TypeScript under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, claude-devtools 8%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| huginn | claude-devtools | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 3.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-19 | 2026-05-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 297 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick huginn if
- You weight community size — 50K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick claude-devtools if
- You want the claude-devtools feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and claude-devtools fits your workflow better
About huginn
Huginn is an open source system for building agents that perform automated tasks online, written in Ruby and released under the MIT license. Its agents read the web, watch for events, and take actions on the user's behalf. Internally, agents create and consume events that propagate along a directed graph, which means one agent's output becomes another agent's input and a chain of small steps can be composed into a larger workflow. The project lives in the Ruby ecosystem and is distributed as an official Docker image or installed locally from a forked repository.
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About claude-devtools
claude devtools is a free, MIT licensed TypeScript application — desktop builds plus a Docker service — that reads the Claude Code session logs already stored in /.claude/ and reconstructs them into a visual interface for inspecting tool calls, token usage, subagents, and the context window.
read the full claude-devtools overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or claude-devtools more popular?
huginn has 49,976 GitHub stars and claude-devtools has 3,942. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and claude-devtools free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and claude-devtools under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and claude-devtools?
huginn is written in Ruby and claude-devtools in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, huginn or claude-devtools?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,976 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose claude-devtools if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.