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Haystack vs OpenAI Agents SDK (JS)

Both are Grade A and 3.4 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. Haystack leads on supply-chain integrity and maintenance.

A Haystack 96.4

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search…

deepset-ai/haystack · #1 overall · #1 Agent Frameworks · coverage B (3/5)

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

+1.6Maintenance
+1.0Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 9.3 against 8.5
+0.7Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 9.3 against 8.5

A OpenAI Agents SDK (JS) 93.0

A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows and voice agents

openai/openai-agents-js · #6 overall · #4 Agent Frameworks · coverage B (3/5)

OpenAI Agents SDK (JS) doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

Where they differ

24.1

Safety / IntegrityHaystack +1.0

23.1

16.4

TransparencyHaystack +0.7

15.7

19.9

MaintenanceHaystack +1.6

18.3

17.5

AdoptionHaystack +0.3

17.2

+0.5

Runtime calibrationOpenAI Agents SDK (JS) +0.2

+0.7

1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Haystack and OpenAI Agents SDK (JS), two Agent Frameworks projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Haystackdeepset-ai/haystack	OpenAI Agents SDK (JS)openai/openai-agents-js
HVTrust score	96.4	93.0
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	B	B
Overall rank	#1	#6
Rank in Agent Frameworks	#1	#4
GitHub stars	26.9k	4.0k
Last updated	1d ago	1d ago
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	9.3 / 10	8.5 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Downloads	141k/wk	2.5M/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	24.1	23.1
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	16.4	15.7
Maintenance / 20	19.9	18.3
Adoption / 20	17.5	17.2
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Declared	Implemented
External providers	1 — OpenAI	1 — OpenAI
Requires API keys	No	Yes
Plugin surface	plugins	extensions
Provenance drift	Match	Match

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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 →