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24 alternatives to Microsoft Agent Viewer

I missed clippy and bonzi buddy, so I spent the past few days reversing and implementing microsofts old agent format (acs) and wrote a small viewer on top of it (wasm + typescript) You can check out the code here as well: https://github.com/Ell/bonzi

Microsoft Agent Viewer is a web-based tool that displays animated characters using Microsoft's legacy ACS (Agent Character) format from the 1990s. Built with WebAssembly and TypeScript, it allows users to view classic… 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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    2025 · felixrieseberg.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Inspector▲594

    Figma for Claude Code

    Feb 2026 · radiusbrowser.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn any LLM into a Computer Use Agent

    2025 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    Free Figma agent + Import anything to Figma

    Jun 2026 · figma.com · its alternatives →

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    Agenty▲263

    Point and click screen scraping tool using CSS selectors

    2016 · agenty.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentPeek▲164

    Your coding agents, in the Mac notch

    Jun 2026 · agentpeek.app · its alternatives →

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    Freebuff▲310

    Free coding agents to kill Claude, Cursor, Replit, and Devin

    Aug 2026 · freebuff.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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    Hi HN! Smooth CLI (https://www.smooth.sh) is a browser that agents like Claude Code can use to navigate the web reliably, quickly, and affordably. It lets agents specify tasks using natural language, hiding UI complexity, and allowing them to focus on higher-level intents to carry out complex web tasks. It can also use your IP address while running browsers in the cloud, which helps a lot with roadblocks like captchas (https://docs.smooth.sh/features/use-my-ip). Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jthcU705k Docs start at…

    Feb 2026 · docs.smooth.sh · 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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    Hey HN! I built a tool that gives LLMs the ability to understand the visual structure of a webpage even if they don't accept image input. We've found that unimodal GPT-4 + Tarsier's textual webpage representation consistently beats multimodal GPT-4V/4o + webpage screenshot by 10-20%, probably because multimodal LLMs still aren't as performant as they're hyped to be. Over the course of experimenting with pruned HTML, accessibility trees, and other perception systems for web agents, we've iterated on Tarsier's components to maximize downstream agent/codegen performance. Here's the…

    2024 · github.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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    I use AI agents to build UI features daily. The thing that kept annoying me: the agent writes code but never sees what it actually looks like in the browser. It can’t tell if the layout is broken or if the console is throwing errors. So I built a CLI that lets the agent open a browser, interact with the page, record what happens, and collect any errors. Then it bundles everything — video, screenshots, logs — into a self-contained HTML file I can review in seconds. proofshot start --run "npm run dev" --port 3000 # agent navigates, clicks, takes screenshots proofshot stop It works with…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time AI coding assistant telemetry in your Mac's notch

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm Dan, and I built a CLI that lets AI agents design in Figma. What it does: 100 commands to create shapes, text, frames, components, modify styles, export assets. JSX importing that's ~100x faster than any plugin API import. Works with any LLM coding assistant. Why I built it: The official Figma MCP server can only read files. I wanted AI to actually design — create buttons, build layouts, generate entire component systems. Existing solutions were either read-only or required verbose JSON schemas that burn through tokens. Demo (45 sec): https://youtu.be/9eSYVZRle7o Tech…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Give your AI coding agent the web as a command line

    Jun 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Add Clippy to your website for instant nostalgia 😍😍

    2021 · app.smore.com · its alternatives →

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    Our team lives in Slack, but we don’t have access to the Slack MCP and couldn’t find anything out there that worked for us, so we coded our own agent-slack CLI * Can paste in Slack URLs * Token efficient * Zero-config (auto auth if you use Slack Desktop) Auto downloads files/snippets. Also can read Slack canvases as markdown! MIT License

    Feb 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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    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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    Your agentic CLI developer. Contribute to geekforbrains/sidekick-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let coding agents see your browser. Contribute to puffinsoft/peek-cli development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A ChatGPT C# client for MacOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and Browser. Powered by Avalonia UI framework. - wieslawsoltes/ChatGPT

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A browser designed for agent. Contribute to JasonHonKL/Openbrowser development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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