AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Mithril Forge
Install production-ready skills for 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.
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Hi HN, I'm Antoine Zambelli, AI Director at Texas Instruments. I built Forge, an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling. What it does: - Adds domain-and-tool-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM-aware context management) to local models running on consumer hardware - Takes an 8B model from ~53% to ~99% on multi-step agentic workflows without changing the model - just the system around it - Ships with an eval harness and interactive dashboard so you can reproduce every number I wanted to run a handful of always-on agentic systems…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Skillkit▲252It'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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Tessl▲260I'm Guy, the founder behind Snyk — now building Tessl, a package manager for agent skills. We’ve recently witnessed that most teams still treat skills as static artifacts: markdown files, created or copied from repo to repo. This approach offers a strong initial boost, but quickly creates debt: - Skills are duplicated, and updates never roll out. - Poor quality skills go unseen, misguiding agents instead of helping. - Skill knowledge grows stale, and don’t keep up with the systems and practices they describe. Without a way to evaluate skills, teams have no clear way to understand how good a…
Feb 2026 · tessl.io · its alternatives →
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Agent Skills▲190Curated 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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localskills.sh▲115AI Skill & MCP server management for teams & enterprises
Jul 2026 · localskills.sh · its alternatives →
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Forge▲66A complete React toolkit made for AI
May 2026 · forge.webba-creative.com · its alternatives →
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Creating high-quality skills for Claude manually is complex, requiring specific technical knowledge of the file system structure (like SKILL.md), YAML metadata configuration, and precise prompt engineering to ensure the agent behaves correctly. MakeSkill eliminates this friction by automating the technical implementation. Instead of writing code and configuration files from scratch, users interact with MakeSkill's AI to refine their ideas. The platform then generates the complete, optimized skill package—following all best practices—ready to be downloaded and imported directly into Claude…
Nov 2025 · makeskill.cc · its alternatives →
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A test runner for agentskills.io-style AI agent skills - darkrishabh/agent-skills-eval
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover and download agent skills for Claude, featuring capabilities from Anthropic, Notion, Composio, and the community. Fast, powerful, and smart AI agent skills.
Jan 2026 · openskills.space · its alternatives →
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ForgeCat▲3Package, share, and install AI Agents across platforms.
Jul 2026 · forgecat.ai · its alternatives →
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Discover and share skills for AI agents
Jan 2026 · skillz.directory · its alternatives →
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Forge▲6Self-hosted workflow engine for all favor agents
May 2026 · forgeailab.github.io · its alternatives →
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The open directory your AI agent actually knows how to use.
Mar 2026 · findskills.org · its alternatives →
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#agents #ai #developers #automation #opensource
Jan 2026 · agentskills.to · its alternatives →
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GetSkills▲103,000+ AI skills for Claude, Cursor & ChatGPT
May 2026 · getskillsai.org · its alternatives →
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vett▲5Hey HN. I built a security registry for AI agent skills. There are 64k skills on Vercel's skills.sh. Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, and dozens more agents pull them from GitHub at HEAD — no versioning, signing, or scanning. The OpenClaw agents themselves flagged this: "The supply chain attack nobody is talking about: skill.md is an unsigned binary."[0] I took an official skill that packages other skills, added a few lines of Python to exfiltrate env vars, shell history, and git config, and installed it into Claude Code and Codex. Claude Code ran the script without flagging the outbound…
Feb 2026 · vett.sh · its alternatives →
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10 evidence-first workflows for AI coding agents
Jul 2026 · ai-agent-skills-pack.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Built a template for distributing AI agent skills via npm. Problem: AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) support custom "skills" but distribution is manual - copy files to ~/.tool/skills/, repeat for updates, no versioning. Solution: Standard npm packages with lifecycle hooks: npm install -g @org/my-skill npm update -g @org/my-skill Benefits: - Semantic versioning (^1.2.0 for auto-updates) - Private registries for enterprise - Standard CI/CD integration - Discoverable on npmjs.com It's a GitHub template - fork, customize SKILL.md, publish.…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a skill library for OpenClaw (always-on AI agent runtime, not session-based) where the agent can teach itself new behaviors during normal conversation. The idea: you tell your agent "every time I ask for a code review, always check for security issues first." It invokes a create-skill skill, writes a new SKILL.md, and that behavior is live immediately — no restart, no config change, no developer required. What I think is actually useful (the safety cluster): • loop-circuit-breaker: OpenClaw retries ALL errors identically. This halts on the 2nd identical failure before it burns your…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The App Store for AI Agent Skills — 36K+ in one place
Apr 2026 · discoveraiskills.com · its alternatives →
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365Skill▲2Production-tested Agent Skills for Claude Code & Codex
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Review surface for agent-built prototypes
Jul 2026 · getopencanvas.dev · its alternatives →
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Excited to launch Awesome AI Agent Skills! An open-source collection of 70+ production-ready skills to make your AI agents smarter and faster. Stop reinventing the wheel. From code generation to security audits, it's all here. Contributions welcome! Let's build together.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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