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AI Town vs Eve

Eve leads on trust: 67.0/100 (Grade B) against 43.9/100 (Grade D), a 23.1-point gap. AI Town leads on adoption; Eve leads on supply-chain integrity and maintenance.

D AI Town 43.9

A MIT-licensed, deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI town - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize.

a16z-infra/ai-town · #1143 overall · #8 Needs review · coverage C (2/5)

Choose AI Town if adoption matters most.

+0.7Adoption: 10.7k GitHub stars against 5.8k

B Eve 67.0

The Open Framework for Building Agents

vercel/eve · #455 overall · #1 Needs review · coverage C (2/5)

Choose Eve if supply-chain integrity and maintenance matter most.

+12.5Maintenance: last push 1d ago, against 69d ago
+6.2Safety / Integrity: 100% of recent commits signed, against 27%
+1.7Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 5.9 against 3.9

Where they differ

6.2

Safety / IntegrityEve +6.2

12.4

11.8

TransparencyEve +1.7

13.5

7.4

MaintenanceEve +12.5

19.9

9.7

AdoptionAI Town +0.7

9.0

-2.0

Runtime calibrationEve +3.4

+1.4

1 dimension identical: Identity 10.8 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of AI Town and Eve, two Needs review projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	AI Towna16z-infra/ai-town	Evevercel/eve
HVTrust score	43.9	67.0
Evidence grade	D	B
Coverage grade	C	C
Overall rank	#1143	#455
Rank in Needs review	#8	#1
GitHub stars	10.7k	5.8k
Last updated	69d ago	1d ago
Build provenance	No	No
OSSF Scorecard	3.9 / 10	5.9 / 10
License	MIT	Apache-2.0
Downloads	—	—
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	6.2	12.4
Identity & provenance / 18	10.8	10.8
Transparency / 17	11.8	13.5
Maintenance / 20	7.4	19.9
Adoption / 20	9.7	9.0
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	—	Implemented
External providers	3 — OpenAI, Replicate, Together AI	—
Requires API keys	Yes	No
Plugin surface	—	extensions
Provenance drift	—	—

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →