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24 alternatives to Kagento – LeetCode for AI Agents

I built a platform where you solve tasks together with AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor — any agent via SSH). Isolated sandbox environments, automated test scoring, global leaderboard. Tasks range from easy (AI one-shots it) to hard (requires human help). Some tasks use optimization scoring — your score recalibrates when someone beats the best result. Built it in 6 days as a solo founder. 100% of code written with Claude Code and Codex. Stack: Go, Next.js, K8s, Supabase, Stripe.

Kagento is a platform where users collaborate with AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to solve programming tasks in isolated sandbox environments. Tasks range from easy challenges that AI can complete… 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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    Kastrafree tier, from $19.99/mo▲332

    Hi HN, Fernando and I built Kastra. Kastra intercepts AI agent tool calls and evaluates them against deterministic policies before they execute. We built this product to control pre- and post-inference workloads. This is aimed at developers using coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw. Kastra pushes an allow, hold, and deny decision before the action runs. You can build these policies in plain English from the web app. The interception engine evaluates the tools, targets, and parameters of every action at sub 1ms at a scale of billions of interceptions per day. We also…

    Jul 2026 · kastra.ai · its alternatives →

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    Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, released April 16, 2026. It outperforms Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks including agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use, and agentic computer use. It is benchmarked below Claude Mythos Preview — which remains restricted to Project Glasswing partners. https://vucense.com/ai-intelligence/ai-tools/claude-opus-4-7...

    2025 · anthropic.com · its alternatives →

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    Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons

    May 2026 · kilo.ai · its alternatives →

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    Skillkit▲252

    It'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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    Axel▲271

    Todoist for AI coding agents

    Feb 2026 · axel.build · its alternatives →

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    Kimi K2.6▲339

    Open-source SOTA for long-horizon coding and agent swarms

    Apr 2026 · kimi.ai · its alternatives →

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    GoCodeo▲220

    An AI coding agent extension for VSCode

    2025 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm Baha, creator of Mysti. The problem: I pay for Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, and Gemini but only one could help at a time. On tricky architecture decisions, I wanted a second opinion. The solution: Mysti lets you pick any two AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) to collaborate. They each analyze your request, debate approaches, then synthesize the best solution. Your prompt → Agent 1 analyzes → Agent 2 analyzes → Discussion → Synthesized solution Why this matters: each model has different training and blind spots. Two perspectives catch edge cases one would miss. It's like pair…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Leverage coding agents to tackle complex tasks autonomously

    Feb 2026 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    QualGent▲296

    I built an AI agent that can do mobile app QA after working at Google for years and waiting weeks for QA results. It runs on real devices and uses an ensemble of agents (including computer use) to test like a human. Happy to answer questions and hope it helps app devs ship faster without bugs!

    Dec 2025 · qualgent.ai · its alternatives →

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    Kadabra▲168

    Build data solutions/automate workflows with noCode/lowCode

    Nov 2025 · getkadabra.com · its alternatives →

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    Run Claude, Codex & Cursor in parallel from one dashboard

    Mar 2026 · kingcode.shingoirie.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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    Repo-native memory for coding agents

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I think like many of you, I've been jumping between many claude code/codex sessions at a time, managing multiple lines of work and worktrees in multiple repos. I wanted a way to easily manage multiple lines of work and reduce the amount of input I need to give, allowing the agents to remove me as a bottleneck from as much of the process as I can. So I built an orchestration tool for AI coding agents: Optio is an open-source orchestration system that turns tickets into merged pull requests using AI coding agents. You point it at your repos, and it handles the full lifecycle: - Intake —…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, i am Dimitris, I have been using Claude Code and Codex agents, for some time now from the beggining i had been using them from inside my terminal mainly for coding. For the past 3 years i kept building so i have a homelab and a business server, which already has a lot of vms, so a lot of things to manage. So i decided to start building my own ideal version of using claude code, and codex flexibly and connect them easily with all my vms and infra but at the same time keep using them for coding, and as a personal assistant for daily use. So for the past months I built OtoDock. Its a…

    Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I’m Nathan: an ML Engineer at Mozilla.ai: I built agent-of-empires (aoe): a CLI application to help you manage all of your running Claude Code/Opencode sessions and know when they are waiting for you. - Written in rust and relies on tmux for security and reliability - Monitors state of cli sessions to tell you when an agent is running vs idle vs waiting for your input - Manage sessions by naming them, grouping them, configuring profiles for various settings I'm passionate about getting self-hosted open-weight LLMs to be valid options to compete with proprietary closed models. One…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    19 AI agents for Claude Code that run your full sprint cycle: strategy, spec, architecture, plan critique, build, review, QA, security, privacy, and shipping. Four sprint modes including a mobile chain for React Native. Open-source plugin, zero dependencies. - navox-labs/agents

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Mo. I've been building Paseo, an open source environment for running Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode across desktop, mobile, web, and CLI. It started last September as a push-to-talk voice interface for Claude Code. I wanted to talk to an agent while going on walks. Then I wanted to see what it was doing. Then text it when I couldn't talk. Then review diffs, run multiple agents, and manage work across machines. After a lot of iteration, it turned into a broader environment. The basic model is: - A daemon runs on your machine (MacBook, desktop, VPS, etc.). - Clients connect to it…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Korey is the AI orchestration agent that connects your tools, conversations, and code — so your team always knows what to ship next.

    Dec 2025 · korey.ai · its alternatives →

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    kodwai▲29

    The first platform that scores how you Vibe Code

    Jun 2026 · kodwai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, I run a generative AI infra company, unified API for 600+ models. Our team started deploying AI agents for our marketing and lead gen ops: content, engagement, analytics across multiple X accounts. OpenClaw worked fine for single agents. But at ~14 agents across 6 accounts, the problem shifted from "how do I build agents" to "how do I manage them." Deployment, monitoring, team isolation, figuring out which agent broke what at 3am. Classic orchestration problem. So I built klaw, modeled on Kubernetes: Clusters — isolated environments per org/project Namespaces — team-level…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! My name is Olaf, I work at CircleCI as a technology advisor in the CTO office, came in through the acquisition of my company Vamp.io (progressive delivery for microservices on k8s) in 2021. Wanted to hear the HN community feedback and thoughts on a project we think could be very interesting when adding AI coding agents to the SDLC and your CI pipelines. Our team at CircleCI built Chunk sidecars after repeatedly running into the same issue internally: by the time our CI catches a failure, the agent has already moved on and most of the useful context is gone. The basic idea of Chunk…

    May 2026 · circleci.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn to build AI agents by actually building them

    Jun 2026 · sidegent.com · its alternatives →

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