Alternatives

Ponytail alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

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#1

Planning With Files

Similarity 134Trust 89Excellent 100

Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running agentic tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans that survive context loss and /clear, plus a deterministic completion gate and multi-agent shared state on disk. Manus-style. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the SKILL.md standard.

26K starsJul 24, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#2

Awesome Agent Skills

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

A curated collection of 1000+ agent skills from official dev teams and the community, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more.

28K starsJul 10, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills
#3

Open Design

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

🎨 Local-first, open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Native desktop app. ⚡ 259+ Skills · ✨ 142+ Design Systems 🖼️ Web · desktop · mobile prototypes · slides · images · videos · HyperFrames 📦 Sandboxed preview · HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export 🤖 Claude Code / OpenClaw / Codex / Cursor / OpenCode / Qwen / Copilot / Hermes / Kimi & 17+ CLIs.

82K starsJul 29, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design
#4

Cherry Studio

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs

49K starsJul 29, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio
#5

Agent Skills

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 100

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

81K starsJul 26, 2026 pushagent-skillsShellAI Agents
$ npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills
#6

Claude Skills

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

337 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 330+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — engineering, marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial & finance, and your daily productivity skills.

23K starsJul 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
#7

Hive

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Multi-Agent Harness for Production AI

11K starsMay 29, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add aden-hive/hive
#8

Caveman

Similarity 115Trust 88Excellent 100

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

91K starsJul 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman
#9

Xget

Similarity 115Trust 90Excellent 100

Ultra-high-performance, secure, all-in-one acceleration engine for developer resources

8.2K starsJul 13, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add xixu-me/xget
#10

Text To Cad

Similarity 114Trust 88Excellent 100

A collection of agent skills for CAD, robotics and hardware design

8.3K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add earthtojake/text-to-cad
#11

OpenMontage

Similarity 111Trust 92Excellent 100

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

42K starsJul 24, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add calesthio/OpenMontage
#12

Awesome Openclaw Skills

Similarity 111Trust 90Excellent 100

The awesome collection of OpenClaw skills. 5,400+ skills filtered and categorized from the official OpenClaw Skills Registry.🦞

50K starsJun 16, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills
#13

Guizang Ppt Skill

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 100

AI-agent Skill for generating polished HTML slide decks: editorial magazine and Swiss layouts, image prompts, social covers, and a WebGL/low-power presentation runtime.

23K starsJul 22, 2026 pushagent-skillsHTMLAI Agents
$ npx skills add op7418/guizang-ppt-skill
#14

Pm Skills

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 100

PM Skills Marketplace: 100+ agentic skills, commands, and plugins — from discovery to strategy, execution, launch, and growth.

22K starsJul 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add phuryn/pm-skills
#15

Obsidian Skills

Similarity 111Trust 87Excellent 100

Agent skills for Obsidian. Teach your agent to use Obsidian CLI and open formats including Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas.

36K starsJun 8, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills
#16

Agentskills

Similarity 110Trust 90Excellent 100

Specification and documentation for Agent Skills

23K starsJul 10, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add agentskills/agentskills

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