Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cook – A portable terminal AI agent (OSS, MIT)
A portable terminal AI agent that runs tasks in natural language. One binary. No runtime. Works with any LLM provider.
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 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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opencode▲393Your terminal's AI agent, with any model you want
2025 · opencode.ai · its alternatives →
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Scored 65.2% vs google's official 47.8%, and the existing top closed source model Junie CLI's 64.3%. Since there are a lot of reports of deliberate cheating on TerminalBench 2.0 lately (https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/), I would like to also clarify a few things 1. Absolutely no {agents/skills}.md files were inserted at any point. No cheating mechanisms whatsoever 2. The cli agent was run in leaderboard compliant way (no modification of resources or timeouts) 3. The full terminal bench run was done using the fully open source version of the agent, no…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ShellMate AI▲342While "burning tokens" isn't necessarily a good thing, I thought it worthwhile to throw together a quick leaderboard to track the dev setups of the top HN token burners. Jesse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Vincent), Wes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_McKinney), and Harper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Reed) are using it to report their Claude/Codex usage.
2024 · tkmx.odio.dev · its alternatives →
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NPC-Forge is a framework for building conversational agents that run on the CPU without relying on machine learning or LLMs. - NPC-Forge/docs/development.md at main · gioblu/NPC-Forge
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hermes Desktop▲215An open source terminal agent that builds its own skills
Jun 2026 · hermes-agent.nousresearch.com · its alternatives →
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Sandboxes aren't enough. Give your agent a real computer and get back to building.
2017 · fly.io · its alternatives →
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Windows Terminal with native agent integration
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Grovefree tier, from $5/mo▲101One terminal for you and your AI agent
Sep 2026 · grove.publishstudio.one · its alternatives →
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Kuulto▲116Use /ai to organize files, convert image formats, and more
Jan 2026 · kuulto.app · its alternatives →
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A delightfully minimal, yet remarkably powerful AI Shell Assistant. - ibigio/shell-ai
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clide ▲93Grid-layout terminal with an AI that drives your shells.
Apr 2026 · clide.app · its alternatives →
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tui-use lets agents interact with programs that expect a human at the keyboard — REPLs, debuggers, TUI apps, and anything else bash can't reach. - onesuper/tui-use
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The first glimpse of an AI-native Linux Operating System
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · spiceai.org · its alternatives →
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GhostCLI▲18A free AI assistant for developers who live in the terminal.
Jun 2026 · ghost-cli.eu.cc · its alternatives →
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