go-agentvsMoFA
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
go-agent
Protocol Lattice · Agent framework
OSS
Panel
6.50 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.7
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 8.5
- Longevity
- 5.0
“It offers an agent-as-tool pattern, so your agents can now delegate to each other and no single one of them has to be responsible.”
MoFA
MoFA · Agent framework
OSS
Panel
6.52 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 5.7
- Cost
- 8.5
- Longevity
- 5.3
“It ships as a Rust crate and as a pip package, so two ecosystems can now argue about the same agent.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | go-agent | MoFA |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | No |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | YesIsolation is a WASM sandbox for compile-time plugins and a resource-limited Rhai sandbox for runtime scripts, not a container. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | YesSub-agents are exposed with agent-as-tool patterns for specialist agents and hierarchical workflows. | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Gemini, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, OpenRouter | OpenAI |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesOllama is a first-class provider, defaulting to http://localhost:11434. | YesMoFA ships a mofa-local-llm backend fronted by an OpenAI-compatible HTTP proxy. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 258 | 291 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | go-agent | MoFA | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.5 | go-agent — Pick it if your team writes Go and wants a library rather than a platform; pick a Python framework if you want the examples and the crowd. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 6.0 | MoFA — The microkernel handles lifecycle, metadata and scheduling, and everything else is a plugin, which means a useful agent is mostly code you have not written yet. |
| El Profesor | 7.0 | 7.3 | MoFA — Concurrency rests on an actor library and distribution on a dataflow runtime, so neither the scheduling nor the message semantics were invented here. |
| La Inversora | 5.8 | 5.5 | go-agent — 253 stars for a framework with no hosted component: the value accrues to whatever gets built with it, and none of that value comes back here. |
| La Jefa | 6.0 | 6.0 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 7.8 | no preference |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.