Alternatives

Ponytail alternatives for AI agents.

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

Current skill

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 starsAug 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#2

Awesome Agent Skills

Similarity 127Trust 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.

30K starsAug 16, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills
#3

Mirrord

Similarity 123Trust 82Excellent 100

Run any process, on your machine or in an AI agent's environment, as if it were a pod in your Kubernetes cluster: real env vars, DNS, network, traffic.

5.2K starsAug 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsRustAI Agents
$ npx skills add metalbear-co/mirrord
#4

Cc Skills Golang

Similarity 122Trust 87Excellent 100

🧑‍🎨 A collection of Golang agentic skills that works

3.0K starsAug 13, 2026 pushagent-skillsGoAI Agents
$ npx skills add samber/cc-skills-golang
#5

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.

88K starsAug 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design
#6

Cherry Studio

Similarity 119Trust 91Excellent 100

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

50K starsAug 13, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio
#7

Agent Skills

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 100

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents.

88K starsAug 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsShellAI Agents
$ npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills
#8

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.

25K starsAug 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
#9

Hive

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Multi-Agent Harness for Production AI

11K starsMay 29, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add aden-hive/hive
#10

Drawio Skill

Similarity 116Trust 89Excellent 100

Generate draw.io diagrams from natural language — 6 presets, vision self-check + up to 5-round refinement, codebase-to-diagram, 10,000+ official shapes & 321 AI/LLM brand logos. Exports PNG/SVG/PDF/JPG.

7.4K starsAug 5, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add Agents365-ai/drawio-skill
#11

Codex Ppt Skill

Similarity 115Trust 89Excellent 100

GPT-Image-2 PPT Generator Skill for Creating Image-Based PowerPoint Presentations in Codex and Other Skill-Compatible Agents

4.0K starsJul 23, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill
#12

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

97K starsAug 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman
#13

Xget

Similarity 114Trust 89Excellent 99

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
#14

Text To Cad

Similarity 114Trust 87Excellent 99

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
#15

Archify

Similarity 113Trust 85Excellent 96

Any agent Skill: generate beautiful architecture diagrams with dark/light theme toggle and PNG/JPEG/WebP/SVG export

9.3K starsAug 5, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add tt-a1i/archify
#16

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.

48K starsAug 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add calesthio/OpenMontage

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