AgenticSeekvsLooper
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
AgenticSeek
Fosowl · Autonomous SWE
#214OSS
Panel
5.34 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.0
- Usefulness
- 5.3
- Cost
- 7.7
- Longevity
- 4.3
“The wake word is whatever you named the assistant, and the docs suggest John or Emma, because speech recognition has taste.”
Looper
nexu-io · Autonomous SWE
#216OSS
Panel
5.63 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 6.2
- Longevity
- 4.8
“It only picks up issues that are both assigned and labelled, a bar most backlogs have never once cleared.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | AgenticSeek | Looper |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Autonomous SWE | Autonomous SWE |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | Yes | No |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | any | multiple providers |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | Yes | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | free | byok |
| Starts at | n/a | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 27,417 | 128 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | AgenticSeek | Looper | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.5 | 5.5 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 5.0 | 4.3 | AgenticSeek — The README calls the routing system an early prototype that may allocate the wrong agent, and the offered workaround is that you phrase every request more explicitly. |
| El Profesor | 5.8 | 6.3 | Looper — The forge is designated the source of truth and the planner emits a spec pull request before code, so the intermediate artefact is a reviewable document rather than hidden state. |
| La Inversora | 5.0 | 5.0 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 3.0 | 5.3 | Looper — No seat cost across sixty engineers, and it runs as a daemon on infrastructure we own, which means it needs a service account with commit rights to our repositories. |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 7.3 | AgenticSeek — GPL-3.0, config.ini decides everything with is_local and provider_name, llama.cpp answers over the LAN, and there is no MCP client anywhere in it. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.