Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Boris X Dave

agentic orchestration terminal interface for devs

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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   borisXdave ▲1

   The AI dev team that builds features, solves bugs, and ships

   Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Dave – CLI Personal assistant written in Go▲24

   CLI Personal assistant. Contribute to zuzuleinen/dave development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   agents-cli▲145

   The CLI your coding agent uses to ship agents

   Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Replicas▲239

   Hey HN! I'm Connor, creator of Replicas. I'm a heavy Codex/Claude Code user, and I wanted to hand off tasks to agents like I would to an engineer - kick something off before work, let it scaffold while I'm at lunch, even come back to a ready PR. The problem: existing alternatives use workspace VMs that are black boxes. I have no access to any of them - they can't run tests, read logs, or use tools like the Playwright MCP (which I use to verify agents actually fixed what they claim to fix). Replicas gives agents real cloud workspaces where they can: - Run your test suite and read the…

   Jun 2026 · replicas.dev · its alternatives →

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   Agent 37▲401

   Hey HN, I noticed there are 1,000+ MCP skills on GitHub with zero way for creators to charge for them. So I built Agent37. Selling Claude skills today means asking customers to download your skill, set up Claude Code on their laptops, configure MCP servers, and pray it works. No trial, no updates, often you're just handing over the source. Agent37 lets creators upload a skill, share a link, and anyone can try it instantly (no Claude account needed). Built-in Stripe, creators keep 80%. Looking for feedback on the approach. Would you use something like this?

   Mar 2026 · agent37.com · its alternatives →

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   Daemons by Charlie Labs▲228

   For almost two years, we've been developing Charlie, a coding agent that is autonomous, cloud-based, and focused primarily on TypeScript development. During that time, the explosion in growth and development of LLMs and agents has surpassed even our initially very bullish prognosis. When we started Charlie, we were one of the only teams we knew fully relying on agents to build all of our code. We all know how that has gone — the world has caught up, but working with agents hasn't been all kittens and rainbows, especially for fast moving teams. The one thing we've noticed over the last 3…

   Jun 2026 · charlielabs.ai · its alternatives →

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   Project management system for Claude Code▲175

   I built a lightweight project management workflow to keep AI-driven development organized. The problem was that context kept disappearing between tasks. With multiple Claude agents running in parallel, I’d lose track of specs, dependencies, and history. External PM tools didn’t help because syncing them with repos always created friction. The solution was to treat GitHub Issues as the database. The "system" is ~50 bash scripts and markdown configs that: - Brainstorm with you to create a markdown PRD, spins up an epic, and decomposes it into tasks and syncs them with GitHub issues - Track…

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   AgentGrid▲77

   Hi HN, I’m Michael, I built AgentGrid with my friend Souren because we were tired of losing our coding sessions and couldn't keep track of what was actually being built across our many projects. Our approach was to use an infinite canvas desktop app for the TUIs we already know and love, mainly claude + codex. We drew inspiration from Figma and Railway. Overtime we added image nodes, notes, terminals, coding editors, source control, etc. I wasn't sure about it at first. It took me a month to give the first version Souren built a real try. What got me was an Apple System Update I've been…

   Jul 2026 · agentgrid.sh · its alternatives →

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   Viberia▲146

   Hey HN, This is my take on the agent harness. Everything on an isometric map. Agents are grouped into "buildings" that run in a sequence or a loop; e.g., the CodeForge has an agent that writes a PRD, another one that implements, and a third that reviews. Everything is customizable, you build your own buildings/teams however you want. It's a Tauri app, really light (about 8x less energy than the closest competitor I benchmarked, so it actually runs from a coffee shop on battery). It's macOS only for now, but ping me if you are willing to test the Windows or Linux version. I've been…

   May 2026 · getviberia.com · its alternatives →

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    Munder Difflin▲200

    Make clones with Claude Code and Codex to do your work

    Aug 2026 · munderdiffl.in · its alternatives →

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    Agentastic.dev is Ghostty and Git worktrees = multi-agent CC/Codex IDE▲11

    I’ve been tinkering with what a “multi-agent IDE” should look like if your day-to-day workflow is mostly in terminal (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.). The more I played with it, the more it collapsed into three fundamentals: * A good TUI: Terminal is the center stage, with other stuff (CodeEdit, Diff, Review) baked on the side. I don’t like piping Agent’s output through some electron wrapper, here you get to run CC/Codex/Droid/Amp/etc directly. * Isolation: agents shouldn’t step on each other’s toes. The simplest primitive I’ve found is Git worktrees. It is not as…

    Jan 2026 · agentastic.dev · its alternatives →

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    CLI Manager▲105

    One dashboard to run and organize multiple AI CLI agents

    Dec 2025 · solhun.com · its alternatives →

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    /dev for Claude Code▲84

    Claude Code as a Tech Lead with parallel Worker Agents

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    devpitfree▲117

    A native control room for your Claude Code agents

    20d ago · devpit.app · its alternatives →

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    Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112

    Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…

    Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →

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    kimiflare▲96

    kimi k2.6 cli code editor hosted on cloudflare workers AI

    Apr 2026 · sinameraji.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Open-source CLI coding framework using Claude▲84

    AI powered cli coding agent that monitors your dev/test server and fixes errors and adds features - vysakh0/dravid

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Vexilo▲86

    Claude Code planner w/ 31 agents, 92 commands, + 121 skills

    May 2026 · vexilo.app · its alternatives →

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    Devin for Terminal▲91

    A CLI agent that keeps working when you close your laptop

    Apr 2026 · devin.ai · its alternatives →

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    20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source)▲53

    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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    Agent terminal▲22

    One terminal. Every agent. Total clarity.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Maestro▲20

    Bloomberg Terminal for CLI agents

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source Coding Agent▲6

    Need a human in the loop developer assistant?

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Try Benzi – A coding harness/agent beating Claude Code itself on Sonnet▲11

    Hi y'all. Been working on something that should've been made a long time ago imo. It compiles codebases into O(1) hashmaps that the agent queries to discover the structure of your code/answer questions/write code. It also does complete static analysis checks on any writes the agent makes. Don't take my word for it though. Here are the benchmarks: https://benzi.fly.dev/benchmark. on 2/20 tests, Claude Code (mostly Sonnet on one task) regressed or timed out. Benzi didn't because of course, it has a map it can query and not get lost in the sauce. On the other 18 it…

    Aug 2026 · benzi.fly.dev · its alternatives →

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