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12 Factor Agents alternatives for AI agents.

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12 Factor Agents

What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers?

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Pyspur

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

A visual playground for agentic workflows: Iterate over your agents 10x faster

5.7K starsMay 25, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add PySpur-Dev/pyspur
#2

Sim

Similarity 134Trust 98Excellent 100

Build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Sim is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.

29K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add simstudioai/sim
#3

EvoAgentX

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

🚀 EvoAgentX: Building a Self-Evolving Ecosystem of AI Agents

3.1K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add EvoAgentX/EvoAgentX
#4

Hands On AI Engineering

Similarity 130Trust 92Excellent 98

A curated collection of practical AI projects implementing OCR systems, RAG, AI agents, and other AI use cases.

1.6K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Sumanth077/Hands-On-AI-Engineering
#5

Awesome Llm Apps

Similarity 128Trust 97Excellent 100

100+ AI Agent & RAG apps you can actually run — clone, customize, ship.

114K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps
#6

Llama Index

Similarity 128Trust 96Excellent 100

LlamaIndex is the leading document agent and OCR platform

50K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add run-llama/llama_index
#7

Haystack

Similarity 128Trust 98Excellent 100

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

26K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataMDXRAG
$ npx skills add deepset-ai/haystack
#8

Graphiti

Similarity 128Trust 95Excellent 100

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents

27K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add getzep/graphiti
#9

SurfSense

Similarity 127Trust 98Excellent 100

An open source, privacy focused alternative to NotebookLM for teams with no data limits. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add MODSetter/SurfSense
#10

Flowise

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 100

Build AI Agents, Visually

54K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add FlowiseAI/Flowise
#11

Quivr

Similarity 125Trust 84Excellent 95

Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.

39K starsJul 9, 2025 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add QuivrHQ/quivr
#12

Eliza

Similarity 125Trust 93Excellent 100

Open source agentic operating system

19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add elizaOS/eliza
#13

Chonkie

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

🦛 CHONK docs with Chonkie ✨ — The lightweight ingestion library for fast, efficient and robust RAG pipelines

4.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add chonkie-inc/chonkie
#14

Awesome Opensource AI

Similarity 124Trust 95Excellent 100

Curated list of the best truly open-source AI projects, models, tools, and infrastructure.

3.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai
#15

Sidekick

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 100

A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.

3.3K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdataSwiftRAG
$ npx skills add johnbean393/Sidekick
#16

Ragapp

Similarity 124Trust 84Strong 77

The easiest way to use Agentic RAG in any enterprise

4.4K starsJan 22, 2025 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add ragapp/ragapp

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