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ThingsGateway alternatives for AI agents.

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ThingsGateway

ThingsGateway is a cross-platform, high-performance gateway for edge data acquisition and IoT connectivity. Developed with .NET 8, it offers a suite of powerful tools, including advanced PLC communication libraries and debugging software.

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#1

Aily Blockly

Similarity 123Trust 89Excellent 100

AI IDE for hardware development, support Arduino, MicroPython, ESP32, STM32, RP2040, Nrf5x...

3.8K starsAug 11, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add ailyProject/aily-blockly
#2

VLMEvalKit

Similarity 101Trust 88Excellent 100

Open-source evaluation toolkit of large multi-modality models (LMMs), support 220+ LMMs, 80+ benchmarks

4.2K starsJun 17, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonComputer Vision
$ npx skills add open-compass/VLMEvalKit
#3

Remove AI Watermarks

Similarity 101Trust 86Excellent 100

AI watermark remover. CLI and Python library to strip visible and invisible AI watermarks (Gemini / Nano Banana sparkle, SynthID) and provenance metadata (C2PA, EXIF, IPTC) from images.

4.3K starsJul 28, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonComputer Vision
$ npx skills add wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks
#4

AliceVision

Similarity 99Trust 84Excellent 96

3D Computer Vision Framework

3.5K starsAug 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++Computer Vision
$ npx skills add alicevision/AliceVision
#5

Machinelearning

Similarity 89Trust 89Excellent 99

ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET.

9.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationC#Machine Learning
$ npx skills add dotnet/machinelearning
#6

Tasmota

Similarity 84Trust 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
#7

DevToys

Similarity 83Trust 87Excellent 100

A Swiss Army knife for developers.

32K starsFeb 25, 2026 pushcoding-agentsC#Developer Tools
$ npx skills add DevToys-app/DevToys
#8

Ml Agents

Similarity 81Trust 87Excellent 99

The Unity Machine Learning Agents Toolkit (ML-Agents) is an open-source project that enables games and simulations to serve as environments for training intelligent agents using deep reinforcement learning and imitation learning.

19K starsJun 12, 2026 pushml-automationC#Machine Learning
$ npx skills add Unity-Technologies/ml-agents
#9

PDFPatcher

Similarity 80Trust 84Excellent 97

PDF补丁丁——PDF工具箱,可以编辑书签、剪裁旋转页面、解除限制、提取或合并文档,探查文档结构,提取图片、转成图片等等

13K starsJul 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingC#PDF
$ npx skills add wmjordan/PDFPatcher
#10

Dapper

Similarity 80Trust 82Excellent 95

Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net

18K starsMay 16, 2026 pushdata-analysisC#SQL
$ npx skills add DapperLib/Dapper
#11

Next AI Draw Io

Similarity 77Trust 90Excellent 100

A next.js web application that integrates AI capabilities with draw.io diagrams. This app allows you to create, modify, and enhance diagrams through natural language commands and AI-assisted visualization.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushproductivity-automationTypeScriptProductivity
$ npx skills add DayuanJiang/next-ai-draw-io
#12

Pytorch Lightning

Similarity 77Trust 90Excellent 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

CLIP

Similarity 77Trust 89Excellent 100

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), Predict the most relevant text snippet given an image

34K starsMar 25, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add openai/CLIP
#14

Xgboost

Similarity 77Trust 90Excellent 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
#15

Excalidraw

Similarity 77Trust 88Excellent 100

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

125K starsJun 16, 2026 pushproductivity-automationTypeScriptProductivity
$ npx skills add excalidraw/excalidraw
#16

MoneyPrinterTurbo

Similarity 77Trust 88Excellent 100

利用AI大模型,一键生成高清短视频 Generate short videos with one click using AI LLM.

89K starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo

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