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crit vs agent-manager
crit has 1,129 GitHub stars, 92 forks, 22 open issues and last shipped today. agent-manager has 531 stars, 55 forks, 58 open issues and last shipped yesterday. crit leads on adoption by 113% (1,129 vs 531 stars). crit is written in Go under MIT; agent-manager is written in Go under Apache-2.0. crit has attracted 8% as many forks as stars, agent-manager 10%. crit was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 4 topic tags (ai-agents, cli, code-review, developer-tools), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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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| crit | agent-manager | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 1.1K | ★ 531 |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Go | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-27 |
| Forks | ⑂ 92 | ⑂ 55 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick crit if
- You weight community size — 1.1K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick agent-manager if
- You want the agent-manager feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and agent-manager fits your workflow better
About crit
Crit is a local, single binary review interface for agentic coding workflows that lets a developer comment directly on generated plans, code diffs, and frontend elements and send that feedback back to the coding agent.
About agent-manager
agent manager is an Apache 2.0, Go based terminal interface that runs every AI coding agent a developer already has side by side — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Grok, Gemini CLI, Pi, Command Code, and Hermes Agent — and gathers their live status, quick prompts, worktrees, and diff review into a single tmux TUI.
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Frequently asked questions
Is crit or agent-manager more popular?
crit has 1,129 GitHub stars and agent-manager has 531. crit has the larger community by that measure.
Are crit and agent-manager free?
Both are open source. crit is licensed under MIT and agent-manager under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between crit and agent-manager?
crit is written in Go and agent-manager in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, crit or agent-manager?
Choose crit if you want the larger community (1,129 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose agent-manager if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.