Alternatives

Open Balena alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Open Balena

Open source software to manage connected IoT devices at scale

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#1

Aily Blockly

Similarity 122Trust 87Excellent 98

AI IDE for hardware development, support Arduino, MicroPython, ESP32, STM32, RP2040, Nrf5x...

3.8K starsAug 11, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add ailyProject/aily-blockly
#2

VLMEvalKit

Similarity 101Trust 86Excellent 100

Open-source evaluation toolkit of large multi-modality models (LMMs), support 220+ LMMs, 80+ benchmarks

4.2K starsJun 17, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonComputer Vision
$ npx skills add open-compass/VLMEvalKit
#3

Semantic Router

Similarity 100Trust 86Excellent 98

Superfast AI decision making and intelligent processing of multi-modal data.

3.9K starsSep 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonComputer Vision
$ npx skills add aurelio-labs/semantic-router
#4

Ceres Solver

Similarity 100Trust 84Excellent 97

A large scale non-linear optimization library

4.6K starsNov 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++Computer Vision
$ npx skills add ceres-solver/ceres-solver
#5

Remove AI Watermarks

Similarity 100Trust 80Excellent 100

AI watermark remover. CLI and Python library to strip visible and invisible AI watermarks (Gemini / Nano Banana sparkle, SynthID) and provenance metadata (C2PA, EXIF, IPTC) from images.

4.3K starsJul 28, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonComputer Vision
$ npx skills add wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
#6

AliceVision

Similarity 98Trust 82Excellent 93

3D Computer Vision Framework

3.5K starsAug 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++Computer Vision
$ npx skills add alicevision/AliceVision
#7

Ssh Action

Similarity 87Trust 84Excellent 100

GitHub Actions for executing remote ssh commands.

6.2K starsAug 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationShellGitHub
$ npx skills add appleboy/ssh-action
#8

Skaffold

Similarity 83Trust 86Excellent 100

Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

16K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add GoogleContainerTools/skaffold
#9

D3

Similarity 82Trust 86Excellent 100

Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:

113K starsMay 28, 2026 pushdata-analysisShellData Visualization
$ npx skills add d3/d3
#10

Agent Skills

Similarity 82Trust 85Excellent 100

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

88K starsAug 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsShellAI Agents
$ npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills
#11

Superpowers

Similarity 82Trust 84Excellent 100

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

257K starsJul 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsShellAI Agents
$ npx skills add obra/superpowers
#12

Woodpecker

Similarity 82Trust 84Excellent 100

Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.

7.6K starsJul 30, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add woodpecker-ci/woodpecker
#13

Bash It

Similarity 81Trust 85Excellent 100

A community Bash framework.

15K starsOct 6, 2026 pushproductivity-automationShellProductivity
$ npx skills add Bash-it/bash-it
#14

90DaysOfDevOps

Similarity 81Trust 80Excellent 98

This repository started out as a learning in public project for myself and has now become a structured learning map for many in the community. We have 3 years under our belt covering all things DevOps, including Principles, Processes, Tooling and Use Cases surrounding this vast topic.

30K starsApr 12, 2026 pushdevopsShellKubernetes
$ npx skills add MichaelCade/90DaysOfDevOps
#15

Longhorn

Similarity 79Trust 82Excellent 100

Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes

7.8K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdevopsShellKubernetes
$ npx skills add longhorn/longhorn
#16

Copilot Cli

Similarity 79Trust 82Excellent 96

GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsShellCoding Agent
$ npx skills add github/copilot-cli

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