Alternatives

Humanlayer alternatives for AI agents.

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Humanlayer

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

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#1

Ruler

Similarity 153Trust 90Excellent 100

Ruler โ€” apply the same rules to all coding agents

2.8K starsJun 20, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add intellectronica/ruler
#2

Sandbox Agent

Similarity 152Trust 90Excellent 100

Run Coding Agents in Sandboxes. Control Them Over HTTP. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp.

1.4K starsJun 19, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add rivet-dev/sandbox-agent
#3

Agentmemory

Similarity 149Trust 93Excellent 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
#4

Paseo

Similarity 146Trust 88Excellent 100

Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile

8.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add getpaseo/paseo
#5

Cmux

Similarity 142Trust 88Excellent 100

Ghostty-based macOS terminal with vertical tabs and notifications for AI coding agents

22K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsSwiftCoding Agent
$ npx skills add manaflow-ai/cmux
#6

Optio

Similarity 139Trust 84Excellent 87

Workflow orchestration for AI coding agents swarms, from task to merged PR.

981 starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add jonwiggins/optio
#7

Zerostack

Similarity 138Trust 92Excellent 100

Minimal coding agent written in Rust, optimized for memory footprint and performance

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add gi-dellav/zerostack
#8

Orca

Similarity 138Trust 89Excellent 100

Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop and mobile.

5.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add stablyai/orca
#9

Emdash

Similarity 138Trust 89Excellent 100

Emdash is the Open-Source Agentic Development Environment (๐Ÿงก YC W26). Run multiple coding agents in parallel. Use any provider.

4.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add generalaction/emdash
#10

Cc Safety Net

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 100

A coding agent CLI hook that acts as a safety net, catching destructive git and filesystem commands before they execute. Supports Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Kimi Code and Pi.

1.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add kenryu42/cc-safety-net
#11

Ccmanager

Similarity 135Trust 89Excellent 100

Coding Agent Session Manager for Claude Code / Gemini CLI / Codex CLI / Cursor Agent / Copilot CLI / Cline CLI / OpenCode / Kimi CLI

1.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add kbwo/ccmanager
#12

Beads

Similarity 135Trust 93Excellent 100

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoCoding Agent
$ npx skills add gastownhall/beads
#13

Vibeyard

Similarity 135Trust 87Excellent 100

The IDE built for AI coding agents.

1.2K starsJun 18, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add elirantutia/vibeyard
#14

Pane

Similarity 133Trust 77Strong 76

Terminal-first, open-source AI agent manager for any CLI agent (agent agnostic), any OS (mac, windows, linux). The Open-Source Agentic Development Environment for running multiple coding agents in parallel. Run locally or self-host Remote Pane to manage agents from desktop or phone. Simplify multi-agent orchestration with the runpane CLI.

224 starsJun 21, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add dcouple/Pane
#15

Open Swe

Similarity 133Trust 92Excellent 100

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

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

Ping Island

Similarity 133Trust 84Excellent 87

A Dynamic Island-style command center for managing all your AI coding agents on macOS.

892 starsJun 14, 2026 pushcoding-agentsSwiftCoding Agent
$ npx skills add erha19/ping-island

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