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24 alternatives to Learn Agentic Patterns

The missing curriculum for building reliable AI agents

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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    Agentplace▲1,015

    Garry Tan posted a video this week about what he calls 20x companies. The idea is that small teams beat incumbents many times their size by automating everything internally, not just one or two functions. This alpha is real, and I think it is underhyped tbh. But here's the honest part, building agents is hard, expensive and most of the scaffolding we make would be obsolete with a new labs release. at the same time models are not quite there and they are not keeping up with "coding is dead" and "knowledge workers are doomed". Pushing them beyond what they can actually do reliably just boils…

    2024 · agentplace.io · its alternatives →

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    I built an agent that helps you build Rollercoaster Tycoon-influenced theme parks. You can prompt something like “Build me a cool theme park” and it’ll build a cohesive theme park with multiple worlds and connected with paths and rides. The weird part is that I built it using the same ideas we use to make AI-generated websites follow a company’s design system. I work as an engineer at Magic Patterns, focused on building our Design System Agent, aimed to use your existing brand, components, and conventions instead of producing something that looks like generic AI-generated UI. By default,…

    2025 · magicpatterns.com · its alternatives →

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    SimplAIfree tier, from $5/mo▲589

    Hey HN, I've been building SimplAI for the past several months — it's a platform for building, testing, and deploying LLM-powered agents and multi-step workflows. The problem I kept running into: spinning up an AI agent pipeline means stitching together prompt management, tool calling, memory, evals, and deployment — often from scratch every time. SimplAI tries to be the layer that handles all of that so you can focus on what your agent actually does. What it does: - Visual + code-first workflow builder for chaining LLM calls, tools, and APIs - Built-in prompt versioning and A/B testing…

    2025 · simplai.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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    Build AI agents that respond with UI instead of text

    Feb 2026 · thesys.dev · its alternatives →

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    Lindy▲396

    I'm a big fan of Chris Dixon's idea that "what the smartest people do on the weekends is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." One such thing rn is "creating AI agents." Most devs I know have a few agents lying around. But you shouldn't have to be an engineer to use agents — and even engineers don't want to code every time they need a new agent. So we built a no-code platform to make it 100x easier to create those: * you give a prompt * select amongst 3,000+ API connectors we built (no need to fiddle with OpenAPI specs) * add event-based triggers that'll wake up your…

    2024 · lindy.ai · its alternatives →

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    Curated 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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    Build no-code agents to target markets untouched by AI

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    OpenAgents - The collaboration OS for AI agents. Contribute to openagents-org/openagents development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Apr 2026 · open-agents.dev · its alternatives →

  10. 10AD

    While reading Agentic Design Patterns by Antonio Gulli, I wanted to see how these patterns look in real code. I cloned the OpenAI Codex repo (the open-source AI coding assistant that recently trended on HN) — but it was in Rust. So, I used an Cursor to help me extract and translate 18+ agentic patterns from Codex’s codebase into Python. That small experiment turned into a full open-source guide: GitHub: Codex Agentic Patterns https://github.com/artvandelay/codex-agentic-patterns Each pattern comes with: A short explanation and code sample A runnable exercise and agent…

    2025 · artvandelay.github.io · 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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    Your Company Agentic Operating System. Contribute to desplega-ai/agent-swarm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build AI agents from intent, not flowcharts

    Mar 2026 · studio.aixplain.com · its alternatives →

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    We implemented Stanford's Agentic Context Engineering paper which shows agents can improve their performance just by evolving their own context. How it works: Agents execute tasks, reflect on what worked/failed, and curate a "playbook" of strategies. All from execution feedback - no training data needed. Happy to answer questions about the implementation or the research!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Enable LLMs to Program Themselves. Contribute to Osly-AI/Pocket-Flow-Framework development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    288 AI agent design patterns, with code that actually runs

    Aug 2026 · agentic-design.ai · its alternatives →

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    The UX pattern library your AI agent can actually read

    Jun 2026 · patterns.riyaj.in · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I've made a groundbreaking discovery: procrastination can lead to questionable projects! While avoiding real work, I somehow created a directory of 130+ AI agents and frameworks. It's like I tried to organize a robot party and everyone showed up. What's inside: - A list of AI agents - Frameworks to build more agents So, HN, before I spiral into an existential crisis: did I accidentally create something useful, or should I go touch grass? P.S. If this somehow becomes the next big thing, I promise to pretend it was intentional all along.

    2024 · aiagentsdirectory.com · its alternatives →

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    I love Claude Code but got tired of having nothing to do while I waited for sessions to finish, and managing multiple sessions on the command line was getting annoying and I kept losing track of the tabs. I originally built a quick and dirty version of this for my own use, but decided to polish it up and make it open source. The idea is that you should be able to do all your agentic coding without leaving the tool or needing to go back to a traditional IDE. You can view the diffs, run your program, and merge your changes back. I support OSX and Linux right now, but could add Windows support…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build No Code AI Agents

    2025 · pfagents.ai · its alternatives →

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    Build autonomous AI agents with Next.js & Vercel

    2025 · aiagents.ausbizconsulting.com.au · its alternatives →

  22. 22AC

    I put together a directory of agentic coding tools & things like autonomous app builders, CLI agents, VSCode copilots, and multi-agent dev platforms. Most of these tools can plan, scaffold, and write code with minimal input. Some are polished, some experimental. I wanted a way to compare them all in one place. You can filter by autonomy level, LLMs used, pricing, open source, etc. It’s a compact UI—works on mobile, has dark mode, and no signups or fluff. Would love feedback: Are there tools I’ve missed? Anything that should be organized differently? Info you wish was included? Cheers.

    2025 · aisnoop.org · its alternatives →

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    Visual architecture for agentic AI systems

    Sep 2026 · aigraphstudio.jordigarcia.eu · its alternatives →

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    Improve results from AI agents by providing guidelines

    2025 · tinytoolstack.com · its alternatives →

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