Alternatives

Open Swe alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Open Swe

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

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#1

Zerostack

Similarity 146Trust 94Excellent 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
#2

Agentmemory

Similarity 143Trust 95Excellent 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
#3

SWE Agent

Similarity 135Trust 98Excellent 100

SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]

20K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add SWE-agent/SWE-agent
#4

Continue

Similarity 135Trust 92Excellent 100

open-source coding agent

34K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add continuedev/continue
#5

Optio

Similarity 134Trust 86Excellent 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
#6

Ruler

Similarity 131Trust 92Excellent 100

Ruler — apply the same rules to all coding agents

2.7K starsJun 14, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add intellectronica/ruler
#7

Mathcode

Similarity 130Trust 78Strong 80

MathCode: A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent

573 starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsShellCoding Agent
$ npx skills add math-ai-org/mathcode
#8

Clawcodex

Similarity 130Trust 82Excellent 85

Claude Code full Python rebuild. AI Coding Agent in 230K LoC pure Python!

614 starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add agentforce314/clawcodex
#9

AI Dev Kit

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 99

Databricks Toolkit for Coding Agents provided by Field Engineering

1.7K starsJun 14, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add databricks-solutions/ai-dev-kit
#10

Beads

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent

25K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoCoding Agent
$ npx skills add gastownhall/beads
#11

Frontend Slides

Similarity 127Trust 95Excellent 100

Create beautiful slides on the web using a coding agent's frontend skills

22K starsJun 13, 2026 pushcoding-agentsJavaScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add zarazhangrui/frontend-slides
#12

Kilocode

Similarity 127Trust 94Excellent 100

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

20K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add Kilo-Org/kilocode
#13

OpenHands

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add OpenHands/OpenHands
#14

Yao

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

✨ Build AI agents and web apps — with a single binary.

7.5K starsJun 10, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add YaoApp/yao
#15

Stagewise

Similarity 125Trust 96Excellent 100

The Open Source Agentic IDE. Create and orchestrate coding agents, show app previews and run git workflows. Use your favorite models across all providers.

6.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptCoding Agent
$ npx skills add stagewise-io/stagewise
#16

Paseo

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 100

Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile

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

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