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OpenBot VS Continue

OpenBot Continue
Verdict BUY IT BUY IT
The Reality CopilotKit is a real, identifiable open-source company (not an anonymous account), and OpenBot's GitHub repo has real documentation, a wiki, and CI workflow runs — not just a bare star-farming repo. It has a genuine, if modest, Hacker News Show HN thread (12 points, 1 comment). One honest caveat worth stating plainly: CopilotKit's own documentation labels OpenBot 'alpha' and 'under active development,' explicitly warning that 'rough edges and bugs should be expected' — this is pre-production software by the vendor's own admission, not a case of us discovering that independently. Separately, its GitHub star count (4,793) grew very fast for a repo created in mid-August 2026 relative to its watcher count (19) — a pattern that warranted scrutiny given a confirmed star-fraud case found earlier in the same discovery batch, but CopilotKit's real identity, real docs, and real (if small) community discussion don't show the same red flags as that confirmed-fraudulent repo. As of 2026-09-11, the GitHub repo has 35,869 stars, 5,360 forks, and 955 open issues, with a commit within the last day. Its original "Show HN" launch post reached 298 points and 103 comments; a later post about its local tab-autocomplete feature reached 53 points and 3 comments — a strong initial launch reception that cooled for follow-up features, which is a normal pattern for dev tools, not a red flag by itself.
SHORT ANSWER

OpenBot: OpenBot is real, working alpha software from CopilotKit (a real, identifiable open-source company) that gives AI agents their own browser/files/tools with logged, pre-approved actions — but it's explicitly alpha-stage per the vendor's own docs, and its fast star growth for a month-old repo is worth noting rather than taken as proof of widespread adoption.

Continue: Continue is a free, open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains that works with any model, including local ones. With 35,869 GitHub stars and a high fork count relative to stars, it has real evidence of developers actively customizing it, not just trying it once.