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Hercules alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Photoprism

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

40K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationGoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add photoprism/photoprism
#2

Cog

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

Containers for machine learning

9.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationGoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add replicate/cog
#3

Keras

Similarity 127Trust 92Excellent 100

Deep Learning for humans

64K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add keras-team/keras
#4

Tensorflow

Similarity 127Trust 91Excellent 100

An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone

196K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add tensorflow/tensorflow
#5

Machine Learning Zoomcamp

Similarity 125Trust 87Excellent 100

Learn ML engineering for free in 4 months! Register here 👇🏼

13K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add DataTalksClub/machine-learning-zoomcamp
#6

Argo Workflows

Similarity 124Trust 92Excellent 100

Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

17K starsJun 15, 2026 pushml-automationGoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add argoproj/argo-workflows
#7

Gorse

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 100

AI powered open source recommender system engine supports classical/LLM rankers and multimodal content via embedding

9.7K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationGoMachine Learning
$ npx skills add gorse-io/gorse
#8

Transformers

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

🤗 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
#9

Ray

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.

43K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ray-project/ray
#10

DeepSpeed

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.

43K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add deepspeedai/DeepSpeed
#11

Xgboost

Similarity 119Trust 94Excellent 100

Scalable, Portable and Distributed Gradient Boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) Library, for Python, R, Java, Scala, C++ and more. Runs on single machine, Hadoop, Spark, Dask, Flink and DataFlow

28K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationC++Machine Learning
$ npx skills add dmlc/xgboost
#12

Pytorch Lightning

Similarity 119Trust 93Excellent 100

Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on 1 or 10,000+ GPUs with zero code changes.

31K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning
#13

ML For Beginners

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

12 weeks, 26 lessons, 52 quizzes, classic Machine Learning for all

87K starsJun 9, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add microsoft/ML-For-Beginners
#14

Yolov5

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch > ONNX > CoreML > TFLite

58K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add ultralytics/yolov5
#15

Julia

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

The Julia Programming Language

49K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJuliaMachine Learning
$ npx skills add JuliaLang/julia
#16

AI For Beginners

Similarity 119Trust 92Excellent 100

12 Weeks, 24 Lessons, AI for All!

48K starsJun 11, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add microsoft/AI-For-Beginners

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