AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to AGENTS.lock – a package manager for Agents/Skills/MCPs
AGENTS.lock keeps AI agent skills, instructions, and MCP servers in sync across Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Copilot CLIs using a single TOML lockfile as the source of truth. Instead of manually copying skills and configs between tools, you declare everything once in AGENTS.lock and run `al sync`. GitHub: https://github.com/luml-ai/AGENTS.lock
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Skillkit▲252It's an open-source project that lets you create, translate, and work with multiple agents at the same time, and more.
Feb 2026 · agenstskills.com · its alternatives →
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Agent Skills▲190Curated agent-skills: 1,000+ practical skills selected from 63,000+ GitHub skills. Filter by newest/hot/installs. Works with Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and Cursor.
Mar 2026 · agentskill.sh · its alternatives →
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CLI Manager▲105One dashboard to run and organize multiple AI CLI agents
Dec 2025 · solhun.com · its alternatives →
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Single-agent LLMs suck at long-running complex tasks. We’ve open-sourced a multi-agent orchestrator that we’ve been using to handle long-running LLM tasks. We found that single LLM agents tend to stall, loop, or generate non-compiling code, so we built a harness for agents to coordinate over shared context while work is in progress. How it works: 1. Orchestrator agent that manages task decomposition 2. Sub-agents for parallel work 3. Subscriptions to task state and progress 4. Real-time sharing of intermediate discoveries between agents We tested this on a Putnam-level math problem, but the…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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localskills.sh▲115AI Skill & MCP server management for teams & enterprises
Jul 2026 · localskills.sh · its alternatives →
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LockIn MCP▲116I was tired of how bad distraction blockers are so I built my own. LockIn lets AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) block websites by editing the system hosts file directly via MCP tools (via a secure cloudflare bridge). Why? Because chrome extensions don't work. Blocking it natively makes it unbypassable, and having your agent gatekeep your focus is the ultimate cheat code. Since everyone is using AI agents nowadays, but most people start scrolling or Reddit while waiting for Claude Code to finish, giving them control over your focus solves that. The MCP server exposes four tools:…
Jun 2026 · lockinmcp.com · its alternatives →
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Cortex▲70Run multiple claude-code agents from YAML config
Jan 2026 · cortex-cli.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Sklm▲60Centralize, scope, and sync skills for every AI agent
Jun 2026 · auran0s.github.io · its alternatives →
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Claude Code is amazing for individuals but terrible for teams. I spent the last six months building my perfect mix of MCP servers, subagents, commands and skills. Claude Code writes 100% of the code now, but sharing this with my team? Painful. 1. Blog posts and workshops don't work (and don't scale) 2. Committing tools to N repos means N PRs. A tool changes? N more PRs. 3. Same tools, different files or folders for each AI assistant; not everyone uses Claude Code It is like 1999 all over again; FTPing files up to prod and versioning with ".bak" suffixes. So I built sx. It is your team's…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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agent-skills ai-agent-skills ai-agents claude-code codex
Aug 2026 · treattrick.github.io · its alternatives →
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Give your AI agent expert skills before it builds
May 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Lock▲9The decision protocol for product teams and AI agents
May 2026 · uselock.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello, HN. I've created fast-agent to make building my own products easier - and remove the friction between defining Prompts, MCP Servers and their composition. It uses a simple, declarative style that's easy to work with and source control - with inbuilt support for the patterns in the Building Effective Agents paper. Because you can "warm-up" and interact with Agents before, during or after the workflows, it's easy to diagnose and tune Agent prompts and behaviour for later runs. Being able to set these workflows up makes LLM Context Management and Tool Selection a lot easier and can…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SyncConf▲6Sync/Backup/Install AI Agent configs across machines
Jan 2026 · sync-conf.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN — I'm Scott. Skillscript is a small language I built to write what I want my local agent to actually do, in a form I can read and version, instead of hoping the model gets it right each time. The itch started with something small. I wanted my NanoClaw agent to run my morning brief the same way every day. Check overnight tickets, summarize the deploy pipeline, flag anything urgent. Every session, it would re-figure out how to do this from scratch, drift a little, and cost tokens for what's basically a fixed procedure. I could put it in a system prompt or an MD skill file, but those are…
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Memo MCP▲6Local-first memory for AI agents — offline, no keys
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Stop AI skills from silently breaking across platforms
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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vett▲5Hey HN. I built a security registry for AI agent skills. There are 64k skills on Vercel's skills.sh. Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and dozens more agents pull them from GitHub at HEAD — no versioning, signing, or scanning. The OpenClaw agents themselves flagged this: "The supply chain attack nobody is talking about: skill.md is an unsigned binary."[0] I took an official skill that packages other skills, added a few lines of Python to exfiltrate env vars, shell history, and git config, and installed it into Claude Code and Codex. Claude Code ran the script without flagging the outbound…
Feb 2026 · vett.sh · its alternatives →
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I finally got around to making a tool I've wanted for a long time: you can basically think of it as being "like Gmail for coding agents." If you've ever tried to use a bunch of instances of Claude Code or Codex at once across the same project, you've probably noticed how annoying it can be when they freak out about the other agent changing the files they're working on. Then they start doing annoying things, like restoring files from git, in the process wiping out another agent's work without a backup. Or if you've tried to have agents coordinate on two separate repos, like a Python backend…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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📚 Sync skills across all AI CLI tools with one command and simplify team sharing. Supporting Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw & more - runkids/skillshare
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Author agent skills with your team, sync to any AI agent
Jul 2026 · contexory.com · its alternatives →
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