agents alternatives
wshobson/agents is a Claude subagent with 39.6k stars and a 100/100 Trust Score. It is a solid option, but not the only one: these are the 8 strongest picks in the same category, compared by Trust Score, maintenance and community.
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Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 352 providers (150+ free), 1200+ models Kimi, Claude, GPT, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Cline & Copilot. Quota-aware auto-fallback, RTK+Caveman compression saves 15-95% tokens, MCP/A2A, Desktop/PWA. Built by 550+ contributors
Verified tier, Trust 100/100.Install - 2DietrichGebert/ponytail134.9k
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
Much larger community: 134,876 stars.Install - 3ruvnet/ruflo72k
🌊 The original agent meta-harness. Deploy intelligent multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features adaptive memory, self-learning intelligence, RAG integration, and native Claude Code / Codex / Hermes and many more Integrated
Verified tier, Trust 100/100.Install - 4affaan-m/ECC255.9k
The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
Much larger community: 255,949 stars.Install - 5
Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.
Verified tier, Trust 100/100.Install - 6decolua/9router28.4k
Unlimited FREE AI coding. Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot, Antigravity to FREE Claude/GPT/Gemini via 40+ providers. Auto-fallback, RTK -40% tokens, never hit limits.
Verified tier, Trust 100/100.Install - 7titanwings/distilly24.6k
Distilly — Distill how they think into reusable Skills for any Agent or Bot. Formerly Colleague Skill（原同事 Skill）.
Verified tier, Trust 100/100.Install - 8
Extracted system prompts from Anthropic - Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5, Claude Design, Claude Code. OpenAI - ChatGPT GPT-6-Astra, Codex. Google - Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.1 Pro, Antigravity. xAI - Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, Kimi and more! Updated regularly.
Verified tier, Trust 100/100.Install
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