AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Preloop – GitHub Actions locally in microvms and SSH/pause failures
agent-native, drop-in Github Actions that run locally or self-hosted in microvms, with debug/pause-on-failure and step-level retries - preloopdev/preloop
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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GitHub Actions▲626Automate your workflow from idea to production
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Preloop▲121Hey HN, I’m Yannis, co-founder of Preloop. We’ve built a proxy for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that lets you add human approval gates to your AI agents without changing your agent code. We’re building agents that use tools (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.), but we were terrified to give them write-access to sensitive systems (Stripe, Prod DBs, AWS). We didn't want to rewrite our agents to wrap every tool call in complex "ask_user" logic, especially since we use different agent runtimes. We built Preloop as a middleware layer. It acts as a standard MCP server proxy.You point your agent to…
Jan 2026 · preloop.ai · its alternatives →
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Onlook for Web▲574The open-source, local-first Figma for React apps
2025 · onlook.com · its alternatives →
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BuildJet for GitHub Actionsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲82Managed high-performance runners for Github Actions
2021 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →
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hi guys. been working on something i think is fundamentally missing in today's workflow with ai agents. vcs. i find myself struggling with questions that agents can't answer like "why did you do it?", "when did u delete this folder? why?", etc. or trying to /rewind (after a /compact...) or basically `bisect` to find when and why something was done by the agent in the current / previous session. just like git did for code, i think we are the same core capabilities with ai agents so... i developed an open source solution for that (currently supporting claude code) would love to…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! We just released freeact (https://github.com/gradion-ai/freeact), a lightweight agent library that empowers language models to act as autonomous agents through executable code actions. By enabling agents to express their actions directly in code rather than through constrained formats like JSON, freeact provides a flexible and powerful approach to solving complex, open-ended problems that require dynamic solution paths. * Supports dynamic installation and utilization of Python packages at runtime * Agents learn from feedback and store successful code actions as…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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"If X, then do Y" for your GitHub repository
2024 · ellipsis.dev · its alternatives →
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I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64. Some of the features that are supported include: * Multiple operating system with one single action * Multiple versions of each operating system * Allows to use default shell or Bash shell * Low boot overhead * Fast execution * Runs on both macOS and Linux runners Compared to similar solutions like…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Use GitHub Actions to create a Serverless service. - gitfx/ActionServerless
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox - geomys/sandboxed-step
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · scripts.blockspring.com · its alternatives →
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https://github.com/8dazo/8d
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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local-first MCP discovery runtime for agents — search before invoke, reduce prompt bloat, and route to local MCP tools - mcp-shark/lazy-tool
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, About a year ago I shared a first MVP of a visual node-based system for CI/CD pipelines that I've been very passionate about. I've been building on it since, and it's now live. I've always liked building pipelines and workflows, but I've never liked writing YAML for anything more than simple linear tasks. Branching, conditions, loops, or trying to just run certain things in parallel always gets messy. So I built Actionforge, a visual node system to tackle some of these pain points. Instead of writing YAML yourself, you build workflows as graphs. While Actionforge still uses YAML…
Feb 2026 · actionforge.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we're Jon and Kristiane, and we're building Orloj (https://orloj.dev), an open-source orchestration runtime for multi-agent AI systems. You define agents, tools, policies, and workflows in declarative YAML manifests, and Orloj handles scheduling, execution, governance, and reliability. Over the past year we tried to use many different platforms/frameworks to build out agent systems and while building we hit some sort of problem with all of them, so we decided to have a go at it. Jon has worked with kubernettes and terraform for years and always liked the declarative…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · docs.dagu.io · its alternatives →
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git repo to local editor instantly. Contribute to Jarred-Sumner/git-peek development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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construct — terminal native agentic development environment
2019 · zarvis.ai · its alternatives →
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I’ve been tinkering with what a “multi-agent IDE” should look like if your day-to-day workflow is mostly in terminal (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.). The more I played with it, the more it collapsed into three fundamentals: * A good TUI: Terminal is the center stage, with other stuff (CodeEdit, Diff, Review) baked on the side. I don’t like piping Agent’s output through some electron wrapper, here you get to run CC/Codex/Droid/Amp/etc directly. * Isolation: agents shouldn’t step on each other’s toes. The simplest primitive I’ve found is Git worktrees. It is not as…
Jan 2026 · agentastic.dev · its alternatives →
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no-mistakes is how I kill AI slop. It puts a local git proxy in front of my real remote. I push to no-mistakes instead of origin, and it spins up a disposable worktree, runs my coding agent as a validation pipeline, forwards upstream only after every check passes, opens a clean PR automatically, and babysits CI pipeline for me.
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Self-hosted CI without the CI platform.
Sep 2026 · openpreflight.xyz · its alternatives →
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