agenttrail vs pixtuoid
The two are close in size: 942 stars for agenttrail, 502 for pixtuoid. Over the days we have tracked them agenttrail moved +110.7% and pixtuoid +18.1%, so agenttrail is growing faster right now.
agenttrail leads on context depth. pixtuoid does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Provides a local, real-time observability map of coding agents' plans, tool calls, and file edits without any cloud service, account, or telemetry.
- Stars
- 942
- Tracked growth
- +110.7%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 43d ago
- Language
- JavaScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, local
Visualizes multiple coding agents as a whimsical, glanceable pixel-art terminal 'office' with animated coworkers and per-agent session telemetry.
- Stars
- 502
- Tracked growth
- +18.1%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1h ago
- Language
- Rust
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, local
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | agenttrail | pixtuoid |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Whole-repo analysis | ●●●●● Session events only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Minimal signals | ●●●●● None mentioned |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Repo-level config | ●●●●● Config file options |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Fully local | ●●●●● Fully local |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Multi-provider | ●●●●● Multiple CLIs |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-command start | ●●●●● One-command start |
Which one to pick
Pick agenttrail if…
Privacy-first — run with one command to get a local, read-only live dashboard of agent plans and file activity bound to 127.0.0.1 with no external telemetry.
- Context depth: Whole-repo analysis (5/5 against 1/5)
Pick pixtuoid if…
Privacy-first — runs entirely locally with no telemetry while giving a playful, easy-to-run multi-agent dashboard.
What people want from each one
sodiumsun/agenttrail
Questions people ask
Is agenttrail better than pixtuoid?
agenttrail leads on context depth. pixtuoid does not take any axis by a clear margin. agenttrail is worth picking when privacy-first — run with one command to get a local, read-only live dashboard of agent plans and file activity bound to 127.0.0.1 with no external telemetry.
Which of agenttrail and pixtuoid keeps my code private?
agenttrail: Fully local (5/5). pixtuoid: Fully local (5/5).
What does each one cost to run?
agenttrail: Free, local. pixtuoid: Free, local.
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