Alternatives

Github Act Runner alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Github Act Runner

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#1

Act

Similarity 149Trust 90Excellent 100

Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

71K starsJun 1, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add nektos/act
#2

Gitea

Similarity 134Trust 93Excellent 100

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

56K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add go-gitea/gitea
#3

Goreleaser

Similarity 132Trust 92Excellent 100

Release engineering, simplified

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser
#4

Community

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

8.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationRubyGitHub
$ npx skills add community/community
#5

Ubicloud

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 100

Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationRubyGitHub
$ npx skills add ubicloud/ubicloud
#6

Harness

Similarity 107Trust 92Excellent 100

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.

37K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add harness/harness
#7

Woodpecker

Similarity 104Trust 89Excellent 100

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

7.3K starsJun 19, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add woodpecker-ci/woodpecker
#8

Skaffold

Similarity 98Trust 90Excellent 100

Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development

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

Terragrunt

Similarity 97Trust 89Excellent 100

Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that allows Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform to scale.

9.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add gruntwork-io/terragrunt
#10

Concourse

Similarity 97Trust 91Excellent 100

Concourse is a container-based automation system written in Go. It's mostly used for CI/CD.

7.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add concourse/concourse
#11

Onedev

Similarity 92Trust 93Excellent 100

Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add theonedev/onedev
#12

Podman

Similarity 91Trust 90Excellent 100

Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add podman-container-tools/podman
#13

Argo Cd

Similarity 91Trust 92Excellent 100

Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes

23K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoCI/CD
$ npx skills add argoproj/argo-cd
#14

Rancher

Similarity 91Trust 90Excellent 100

Complete container management platform

26K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdevopsGoKubernetes
$ npx skills add rancher/rancher
#15

D2

Similarity 91Trust 90Excellent 100

D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

24K starsApr 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add terrastruct/d2
#16

Gocd

Similarity 90Trust 90Excellent 100

GoCD - Continuous Delivery server main repository

7.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add gocd/gocd

How to choose

When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Github Act Runner if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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