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#1

Opencode

Similarity 141Trust 88Excellent 100

The open source coding agent.

201K starsAug 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add anomalyco/opencode
#2

Cline

Similarity 140Trust 84Excellent 100

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

63K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add cline/cline
#3

Pi

Similarity 140Trust 82Excellent 100

AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI

63K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add earendil-works/pi
#4

Design.Md

Similarity 140Trust 89Excellent 100

A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system.

16K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add google-labs-code/design.md
#5

Qwen Code

Similarity 139Trust 83Excellent 100

An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal.

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add QwenLM/qwen-code
#6

Kilocode

Similarity 139Trust 85Excellent 100

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

20K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilocode
#7

Archon

Similarity 134Trust 85Excellent 100

The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.

22K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add coleam00/Archon
#8

Open Swe

Similarity 132Trust 86Excellent 99

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

10.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/open-swe
#9

Agentmemory

Similarity 132Trust 87Excellent 100

#1 Persistent memory for AI coding agents based on real-world benchmarks

23K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add rohitg00/agentmemory
#10

Humanlayer

Similarity 130Trust 85Excellent 96

The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases.

11K starsJun 19, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add humanlayer/humanlayer
#11

Openinterpreter

Similarity 127Trust 87Excellent 100

A lightweight coding agent for open models like Deepseek, Kimi, and Qwen

64K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add openinterpreter/openinterpreter
#12

Multica

Similarity 126Trust 85Excellent 100

The open-source managed agents platform. Turn coding agents into real teammates — assign tasks, track progress, compound skills.

37K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoCoding Agent
$ npx skills add multica-ai/multica
#13

Beads

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoCoding Agent
$ npx skills add gastownhall/beads
#14

Codex

Similarity 126Trust 84Excellent 100

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

91K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add openai/codex
#15

Cc Connect

Similarity 124Trust 82Excellent 100

Bridge local AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex) to messaging platforms (Feishu/Lark, DingTalk, Slack, Telegram, Discord, LINE, WeChat Work). Chat with your AI dev assistant from anywhere — no public IP required for most platforms.

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoCoding Agent
$ npx skills add chenhg5/cc-connect
#16

Aidlc Workflows

Similarity 124Trust 89Excellent 100

AI-Driven Life Cycle (AI-DLC) adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents

4.9K starsSep 30, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add awslabs/aidlc-workflows

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