Alternatives

Act alternatives for AI agents.

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

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#1

Actionlint

Similarity 146Trust 93Excellent 100

:octocat: Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files

4.0K starsJun 11, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add rhysd/actionlint
#2

Github Actions Golang

Similarity 144Trust 82Strong 71

GitHub Actions as CI for Go

1.0K starsFeb 11, 2025 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add mvdan/github-actions-golang
#3

Goreleaser

Similarity 141Trust 95Excellent 100

Release engineering, simplified

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser
#4

Wrkflw

Similarity 139Trust 91Excellent 100

Validate and Run GitHub Actions locally.

3.2K starsJun 11, 2026 pushgithub-automationRustGitHub
$ npx skills add bahdotsh/wrkflw
#5

Actions Runner Controller

Similarity 139Trust 94Excellent 100

Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

6.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add actions/actions-runner-controller
#6

Oasdiff

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

OpenAPI Diff and Breaking Changes

1.2K starsJun 14, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add oasdiff/oasdiff
#7

Action Slack Notify

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

GitHub Action for sending a notification to a Slack channel

1.2K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add rtCamp/action-slack-notify
#8

Pinact

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

pinact is a CLI to edit GitHub Workflow and Composite action files and pin versions of Actions and Reusable Workflows. pinact can also update their versions and verify version annotations.

1.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add suzuki-shunsuke/pinact
#9

Gitea

Similarity 134Trust 97Excellent 100

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

56K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add go-gitea/gitea
#10

Android Emulator Runner

Similarity 131Trust 97Excellent 100

A GitHub Action for installing, configuring and running hardware-accelerated Android Emulators on macOS virtual machines.

1.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add ReactiveCircus/android-emulator-runner
#11

Action Setup

Similarity 130Trust 95Excellent 100

Install pnpm package manager

1.3K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add pnpm/action-setup
#12

Gh Aw

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

GitHub Agentic Workflows

4.6K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add github/gh-aw
#13

Goreleaser Action

Similarity 130Trust 93Excellent 100

GitHub Action for GoReleaser

1.0K starsJun 5, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser-action
#14

Hub Mirror

Similarity 128Trust 83Strong 71

🚀 Docker 镜像代理,通过 GitHub Actions 将 docker.io、gcr.io、registry.k8s.io、k8s.gcr.io、quay.io、ghcr.io 等国外镜像转换为国内镜像加速下载

1.2K starsFeb 25, 2025 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add togettoyou/hub-mirror
#15

Community

Similarity 126Trust 97Excellent 100

Public feedback discussions for: GitHub Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

8.4K starsJun 15, 2026 pushgithub-automationRubyGitHub
$ npx skills add community/community
#16

Action Gh Release

Similarity 125Trust 94Excellent 100

📦 :octocat: GitHub Action for creating GitHub Releases

5.7K starsJun 13, 2026 pushgithub-automationTypeScriptGitHub
$ npx skills add softprops/action-gh-release

How to choose

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

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