AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Geiger – See every AI agent on your machine and what it can touch
A Geiger counter for AI agents — one read-only command that inventories every agent, MCP server, plugin, and AI extension on a machine - Atomburstofficial/geiger
Geiger is a read-only command-line tool that scans a machine to inventory all AI agents, MCP servers, plugins, and AI extensions installed on it. It displays what each component can access in plain language. The tool… 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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Codex Subagents▲300Parallel custom agents for complex tasks
Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →
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OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs
Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →
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AgentNotch▲120Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I forked chromium and built agent-browser-protocol (ABP) after noticing that most browser-agent failures aren’t really about the model misunderstanding the page. Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state. ABP is designed to keep the acting agent synchronized with the browser at every step. After each action (click, type, etc), it freezes JavaScript execution and rendering, then captures the resulting state. It also compiles the notable events that occurred during that action loop, such as navigation, file pickers, permission prompts, alerts, and downloads,…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built Axe because I got tired of every AI tool trying to be a chatbot. Most frameworks want a long-lived session with a massive context window doing everything at once. That's expensive, slow, and fragile. Good software is small, focused, and composable... AI agents should be too. Axe treats LLM agents like Unix programs. Each agent is a TOML config with a focused job. Such as code reviewer, log analyzer, commit message writer. You can run them from the CLI, pipe data in, get results out. You can use pipes to chain them together. Or trigger from cron, git hooks, CI. What Axe is: - 12MB…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Atomic▲140Hey HN, I’ve been building Atom (https://github.com/rush86999/atom), an open-source, self-hosted AI automation platform. I built this because while tools like OpenClaw are excellent for one-off scripts and personal tasks, I found them difficult to use for complex business workflows (e.g., managing invoices or SaaS ops). The main issue was State Blindness: the agent would fire a command and assume it worked, without "seeing" if the UI or state actually updated. I just shipped a new architecture to solve this called Canvas AI Accessibility. The Technical Concept: Instead of…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simplified deployment, intelligent monitoring, and seamless optimization of cloud-native apps without the hassle!
2025 · microtica.com · its alternatives →
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I've been building computer-use tools for a while, and I quietly launched this about a month ago (122 Stars on GH). I figured it was worth sharing here. Over the last few months, a lot of computer-use agents have come out: Codex, Claude Code, CUA, and others. Most of them seem to work roughly like this: 1. Take a screenshot 2. Have the model predict pixel coordinates 3. Click x,y 4. Take another screenshot 5. Repeat That works, but it's slow, expensive in tokens, and fragile. If the UI shifts a few pixels, things break. And the model still doesn't know what any element actually is. But the…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of open-source TypeScript tools by @enmanuelmag. heimdall-mcp for MCP proxy telemetry. agent-harness-kit for multi-agent orchestration.
May 2026 · ahk.cardor.dev · its alternatives →
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13,000+ MCP servers, skills & plugins for AI coding agents
Jul 2026 · codexmarketplaces.com · its alternatives →
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This project (Agents Observe) started as an exploration into building automation harnesses around claude code. I needed a way to see exactly what teams of agents were doing in realtime and to filter and search their output. A few interesting learnings from building and using this: - Claude code hooks are blocking - performance degrades rapidly if you have a lot of plugins that use hooks - Hooks provide a lot more useful info than OTEL data - Claude's jsonl files provide the full picture - Lifecycle management of MCP processes started by plugins is a bit kludgy at best The biggest takeaway is…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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0xAudit▲110The security layer for AI agents to scan, fix verify via MCP
Feb 2026 · 0-x-audit.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we're Kiran and Vijay! Over the past two years, we have built a columnar storage engine for observability: logs, metrics, and traces. Today, it's exciting for us to show what we've built on top of that foundation: LLM Agent Observability. Given how non-deterministic agents are, storing all traces without sampling was critical for us. But these traces tend to be in the MBs, sometimes GBs - we needed to store them inexpensively. We also needed the queries and analyses to be fast. To meet both these goals, we store them in S3 in our own parquet-like file format, and query them using AWS…
Jul 2026 · oodle.ai · its alternatives →
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BossHogg▲65The agent-first PostHog CLI. Query events with HogQL, manage feature flags, inspect persons and cohorts, and debug insights - from your terminal, or from Claude Code, Cursor, and other coding agents. - aaronkwhite/bosshogg-cli
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Agent Beacon is the world's first open-source telemetry layer for AI agents wherever they run: locally, in CI, in the browser, or in the cloud. - Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Panguard.AI▲20Open-source malware scanner and runtime guard for AI agents
Jul 2026 · panguard.ai · its alternatives →
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1. Headless mode Headless mode allows you to use the AI as a command-line utility for automation and scripting. In Claude Code you run it with the -p flag: claude -p, in codex - exec, opencode - run. 2. Ask human The traditional communication channel with the operator won't work in headless mode - we need to implement a dedicated tool. Here is an example of how this can be done https://github.com/sermakarevich/claude/tree/main/mcp/ask_hu... 3. Tasks queue Beads is a lightweight distributed graph issue tracker for AI agents, powered by Dolt. You can…
Jun 2026 · its alternatives →
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We built a Rust MCP server, which wraps the excellent headless terminal (HT)[1] to makes it available for agentic coding tools. Most agentic coding tools struggle with blocking, interactive terminal tools (all the boilerplate generator, infra CLI tools etc). This is because many existing CLI dev tools are built for humans and require interactive input. We built this so agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Memex, etc) can “see” and “interact” with terminals exactly like humans do. In our demo video [2], you'll see it operating vim/emacs just as a human would - selecting options,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Local security & compliance scanner for AI agents
Jul 2026 · safeclaude.net · its alternatives →
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