Decision Workspace
grain-ai-agent-headless vs pi-coding-agent vs yoyo-agent
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
47
grain-ai-agent-headless
experimentalv0.0.1-beta2
Headless coding-agent toolkit built on grain-agent-core + grain-agent-harness + grain-llm-genai. v1 ships the four read-only filesystem tools and a single-prompt CLI driver (`grain-headless`); write tools / shell / interactive loop / rig-backed semantic search land in follow-up PRs.
46
pi-coding-agent
experimentalv1.0.0
Interactive coding agent CLI (Rust port of @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent). Streaming REPL, session persistence, AGENTS.md loader, slash commands, per-tool permissions. Install with `cargo install pi-coding-agent`; the binary is `pi`.
44
yoyo-agent
experimentalv0.1.11
A coding agent that evolves itself. Born as 200 lines of Rust, growing up in public.
Core Metrics
| grain-ai-agent-headless | pi-coding-agent | yoyo-agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 47 | 46 | 44 |
| Total Downloads | 27 | 24 | 152 |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Releases | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| Last Updated | today | 13d ago | 12d ago |
| Age | 1d | 13d | 2m |
Health Breakdown
grain-ai-agent-headless
Maintenance
14
Quality
11
Community
7
Popularity
2
Documentation
13
pi-coding-agent
Maintenance
12
Quality
14
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
12
yoyo-agent
Maintenance
12
Quality
10
Community
6
Popularity
3
Documentation
13
Technical Details
| grain-ai-agent-headless | pi-coding-agent | yoyo-agent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.0.1-beta2 | 1.0.0 | 0.1.11 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Dependencies | 30 | 15 | 12 |
| Crate Size | 143KB | 26KB | 1.3MB |
| Features | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2021 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | 1.80 | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •grain-ai-agent-headless leads with a health score of 47/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •yoyo-agent has the most downloads (152), suggesting wider adoption.
- •grain-ai-agent-headless, yoyo-agent are pre-1.0 — API may change.