Alternatives

Sidekick alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Sidekick

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.

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#1

Flowise

Similarity 134Trust 85Excellent 100

Build AI Agents, Visually

54K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add FlowiseAI/Flowise
#2

Sim

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

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

29K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add simstudioai/sim
#3

Haystack

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 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
#4

DB GPT

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

open-source agentic AI data assistant for the next generation of AI + Data products.

19K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT
#5

Eliza

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

Open source agentic operating system

19K starsJun 25, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add elizaOS/eliza
#6

SurfSense

Similarity 126Trust 90Excellent 100

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

15K starsJun 27, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add MODSetter/SurfSense
#7

Awesome Opensource AI

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

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

4.6K starsAug 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai
#8

All In RAG

Similarity 123Trust 84Excellent 94

🔍大模型应用开发实战一:RAG 技术全栈指南,在线阅读地址:https://datawhalechina.github.io/all-in-rag/

8.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/all-in-rag
#9

Khoj

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

35K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj
#10

Llm App

Similarity 119Trust 89Excellent 100

Ready-to-run cloud templates for RAG, AI pipelines, and enterprise search with live data. 🐳Docker-friendly.⚡Always in sync with Sharepoint, Google Drive, S3, Kafka, PostgreSQL, real-time data APIs, and more.

59K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdataJupyter NotebookRAG
$ npx skills add pathwaycom/llm-app
#11

Awesome Llm Apps

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 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
#12

Llama Index

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

LlamaIndex is the leading document agent and OCR platform

50K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add run-llama/llama_index
#13

Graphiti

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents

28K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add getzep/graphiti
#14

Onyx

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM

30K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add onyx-dot-app/onyx
#15

Kotaemon

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

25K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Cinnamon/kotaemon
#16

Opendataloader Pdf

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.

26K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdataJavaRAG
$ npx skills add opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf

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