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AI-Driven Life Cycle (AI-DLC) adaptive workflow steering rules for AI coding agents
2.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add awslabs/aidlc-workflowsAlternatives
Deep Swe alternatives for AI agents.
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Deep Swe
Measuring frontier coding agents on original, long-horizon engineering tasks
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Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral
4.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add mistralai/mistral-vibe#3
Databricks Toolkit for Coding Agents provided by Field Engineering
1.7K starsJun 14, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add databricks-solutions/ai-dev-kit#4
Official AHE code — Agentic Harness Engineering: observability-driven automatic evolution of coding-agent harnesses (concurrent w/ meta-harness). NexAU-AHE reaches 84.7% ± 2.1 pass@1 on Terminal-Bench 2 (GPT-5.5). Lifts GPT-5.4 69.7→77.0% over 10 iters, beats Codex/ACE/Training-Free GRPO; frozen harness transfers to SWE-bench-Verified.
577 starsJun 14, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add china-qijizhifeng/agentic-harness-engineering#5
Action-aware permissions for coding agents. A deterministic safety guard that keeps you in the flow.
454 starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add manuelschipper/nah#6
A context and memory system for AI coding agents. Persistent memory, personal rules, skills, and scheduled observations
592 starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add grapeot/context-infrastructure#7
The open source coding agent.
175K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add anomalyco/opencode#8
A lightweight coding agent for open models like Deepseek, Kimi, and Qwen
64K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add openinterpreter/openinterpreter#9
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#10
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoCoding Agent
$ npx skills add gastownhall/beads#11
Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
91K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add openai/codex#12
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
63K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add cline/cline#13
The first real AI developer
34K starsJun 12, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot#14
open-source coding agent
34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add continuedev/continue#15
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#16
AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
63K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add earendil-works/piHow 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 Deep Swe if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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