Alternatives

Rauc alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Rauc

Safe and secure software updates for embedded Linux

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#1

Tasmota

Similarity 90Trust 89Excellent 100

Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

24K starsJun 16, 2026 pushautomationCAutomation
$ npx skills add arendst/Tasmota
#2

Wasm3

Similarity 88Trust 88Excellent 100

๐Ÿš€ A fast WebAssembly interpreter and the most universal WASM runtime

8.0K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdevopsCDevOps
$ npx skills add wasm3/wasm3
#3

Nmap

Similarity 80Trust 83Excellent 100

Nmap - the Network Mapper. Github mirror of official SVN repository.

13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationCMachine Learning
$ npx skills add nmap/nmap
#4

Mailspring

Similarity 76Trust 90Excellent 100

:love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

18K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationJavaScriptEmail
$ npx skills add Foundry376/Mailspring
#5

Waveterm

Similarity 76Trust 86Excellent 100

An open-source, AI-integrated, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows

22K starsJul 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add wavetermdev/waveterm
#6

Witr

Similarity 75Trust 86Excellent 100

Why is this running?

18K starsJul 6, 2026 pushdevopsGoDevOps
$ npx skills add pranshuparmar/witr
#7

Espanso

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

14K starsJun 14, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustProductivity
$ npx skills add espanso/espanso
#8

Pyroscope

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 100

Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add grafana/pyroscope
#9

Ubicloud

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgithub-automationRubyGitHub
$ npx skills add ubicloud/ubicloud
#10

Shell Gpt

Similarity 75Trust 86Excellent 100

A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-5, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently.

12K starsMay 6, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPythonProductivity
$ npx skills add TheR1D/shell_gpt
#11

Vicinae

Similarity 74Trust 86Excellent 100

A focused launcher for your desktop - native, fast, extensible

8.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationC++Productivity
$ npx skills add vicinaehq/vicinae
#12

Timescaledb

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

A time-series database for high-performance real-time analytics packaged as a Postgres extension

23K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdata-analysisCSQL
$ npx skills add timescale/timescaledb
#13

Nnn

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

nยณ The unorthodox terminal file manager

22K starsJun 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsCDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add jarun/nnn
#14

Ctags

Similarity 72Trust 87Excellent 100

A maintained ctags implementation

7.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushcoding-agentsCDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add universal-ctags/ctags
#15

Sim

Similarity 69Trust 91Excellent 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
#16

Transformers

Similarity 69Trust 90Excellent 100

๐Ÿค— Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

162K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add huggingface/transformers

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