Alternatives

Install Action alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Install Action

GitHub Action for installing development tools (mainly from GitHub Releases).

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#1

Act

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

71K starsJun 1, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add nektos/act
#2

Goreleaser

Similarity 126Trust 92Excellent 100

Release engineering, simplified

16K starsJun 13, 2026 pushgithub-automationGoGitHub
$ npx skills add goreleaser/goreleaser
#3

Community

Similarity 125Trust 92Excellent 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
#4

Gitea

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 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
#5

Ubicloud

Similarity 118Trust 92Excellent 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
#6

Lapce

Similarity 99Trust 92Excellent 100

Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

39K starsJun 10, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add lapce/lapce
#7

Devenv

Similarity 97Trust 92Excellent 100

Fast, Declarative, Reproducible, and Composable Developer Environments using Nix

7.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add cachix/devenv
#8

Xh

Similarity 96Trust 85Excellent 100

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

7.9K starsJun 8, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add ducaale/xh
#9

Openinterpreter

Similarity 91Trust 92Excellent 100

A lightweight coding agent for open models like Deepseek, Kimi, and Qwen

64K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add openinterpreter/openinterpreter
#10

Codex

Similarity 91Trust 88Excellent 100

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

91K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustCoding Agent
$ npx skills add openai/codex
#11

Espanso

Similarity 90Trust 91Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 14, 2026 pushproductivity-automationRustProductivity
$ npx skills add espanso/espanso
#12

Harper

Similarity 89Trust 91Excellent 100

Offline, privacy-first grammar checker. Fast, open-source, Rust-powered

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add Automattic/harper
#13

Gpt Pilot

Similarity 85Trust 88Excellent 100

The first real AI developer

34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot
#14

D2

Similarity 85Trust 90Excellent 100

D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.

24K starsApr 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsGoDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add terrastruct/d2
#15

GitHubDaily

Similarity 84Trust 86Excellent 100

坚持分享 GitHub 上高质量、有趣实用的开源技术教程、开发者工具、编程网站、技术资讯。A list cool, interesting projects of GitHub.

47K starsDec 31, 2025 pushcoding-agentsDeveloper ToolsClaude Code
$ npx skills add GitHubDaily/GitHubDaily
#16

Onedev

Similarity 84Trust 93Excellent 100

Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

15K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdevopsJavaCI/CD
$ npx skills add theonedev/onedev

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 Install Action if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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