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Friends alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Friends

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#1

Glow

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! πŸ’…πŸ»

26K starsApr 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add charmbracelet/glow
#2

Jekyll

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby

51K starsApr 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyMarkdown
$ npx skills add jekyll/jekyll
#3

Presenterm

Similarity 117Trust 90Excellent 100

A markdown terminal slideshow tool

8.5K starsMay 22, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustMarkdown
$ npx skills add mfontanini/presenterm
#4

Defuddle

Similarity 117Trust 90Excellent 100

Get the main content of any page as Markdown.

8.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add kepano/defuddle
#5

Gollum

Similarity 116Trust 93Excellent 97

A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.

14K starsNov 24, 2025 pushdocument-processingRubyMarkdown
$ npx skills add gollum/gollum
#6

Html To Markdown

Similarity 115Trust 91Excellent 100

βš™οΈ Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.

3.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown
#7

Glamour

Similarity 115Trust 89Excellent 100

Stylesheet-based markdown rendering for your CLI apps πŸ’‡πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

3.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add charmbracelet/glamour
#8

Marp Cli

Similarity 115Trust 87Excellent 100

A CLI interface for Marp and Marpit based converters

3.6K starsMay 6, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add marp-team/marp-cli
#9

Github Changelog Generator

Similarity 115Trust 91Excellent 100

Automatically generate change log from your tags, issues, labels and pull requests on GitHub.

7.5K starsMar 18, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyMarkdown
$ npx skills add github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator
#10

Fieldtheory Cli

Similarity 114Trust 89Excellent 100

Field Theory CLI for bookmarks, Library, commands, and agent workflows

1.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add afar1/fieldtheory-cli
#11

Llm Wiki Compiler

Similarity 114Trust 91Excellent 100

The knowledge compiler. Raw sources in, interlinked wiki out. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.

1.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add atomicstrata/llm-wiki-compiler
#12

Rumdl

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 100

Fast Markdown linter and formatter written in Rust

1.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingRustMarkdown
$ npx skills add rvben/rumdl
#13

Voiden

Similarity 113Trust 89Excellent 100

Design, Test and Document APIs in plain Markdown. Compose Requests with API blocks. Reuse, Replace & Version everything just like code. Offline, Truly Git Native, No Lock-in.

1.2K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add VoidenHQ/voiden
#14

Markdownlint

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

Markdown lint tool

2.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingRubyMarkdown
$ npx skills add markdownlint/markdownlint
#15

Yuque Dl

Similarity 112Trust 84Excellent 94

yuque 语雀ηŸ₯θ―†εΊ“δΈ‹θ½½

2.2K starsApr 20, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add gxr404/yuque-dl
#16

Memos

Similarity 112Trust 96Excellent 100

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.

61K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdocument-processingGoMarkdown
$ npx skills add usememos/memos

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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 Friends if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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