AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Skene

Vertical agents that turn your codebase into a growth engine

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 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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   Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API▲62

   Deploy any Agent Skill as an API via POST /run. The open-source multi-model alternative to Claude Managed Agents, Microsoft Foundry & Mistral/Koyeb — works with any LLM. - skrun-dev/skrun

   Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Openbasefree▲216

   Manage your team of AI agents by voice, from anywhere

   Jul 2026 · openbase.cloud · 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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   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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   Zen Agents (by Zencoder)▲287

   Build AI agents. Share org-wide. 100+ Tools&MCP

   2025 · docs.zencoder.ai · its alternatives →

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   Codex Subagents▲300

   Parallel custom agents for complex tasks

   Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com · its alternatives →

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   Robomotion RPA▲161

   Hire or build AI agents that work alongside your team. Robomotion is the Agentic RPA platform where agents act on your real systems - securely, using your own credentials. The practical evolution of RPA.

   2023 · robomotion.io · its alternatives →

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   Cosmic AI Agents▲145

   Hey HN, We're Cosmic (YC W19), a headless CMS. Today we're launching Team Agents and the Cosmic Agent. Team Agents are AI-powered team members that live in Slack, WhatsApp, and Telegram. They have names, roles, persistent memory, and real capabilities. Not chatbots. Not one-off prompts. Persistent agents that work alongside your team. Here's what they can do: CONTENT AGENTS write blog posts, landing pages, and marketing copy. They generate images, add SEO metadata, and publish directly to the CMS. Message them in Slack, get a finished post back. CODE AGENTS read your codebase, create…

   Dec 2025 · cosmicjs.com · its alternatives →

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    Augment Agent▲156

    AI pair programmer that understands your codebase

    2025 · augmentcode.com · its alternatives →

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    49agents IDE▲128

    An infinite 2D canvas where every AI coding agent, terminal, repo and machine you own lives side by side. Open source, self-hostable.

    Sep 2026 · 49agents.com · its alternatives →

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    Lunen.ai▲112

    Build AI agents your whole team can run, and control

    Jul 2026 · lunen.ai · its alternatives →

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    Kepler▲80

    Agentic development environment to run agents at scale

    Jun 2026 · gitkraken.com · its alternatives →

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    Horizons – OSS agent execution engine▲39

    I'm Josh, founder of Synth. We've been working on coding agent optimization with method like GEPA and MIPRO (the latter of which, I helped to originally develop), agent evaluation via methods like RLMs, and large scale deployment for training and inference. We've also worked on patterns for memory, processing live context, and managing agent actions, combining it all in a single stack called Horizons. With the release of OpenAI's Frontier and the consumer excitement around OpenClaw, we think the timing is right to release a v0. It integrates with our sdk for evaluation and optimization but…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Lukan AI Agent, IDE and workstation.▲92

    Hi HN, I've been building Lukan, an open-source (MIT) agentic workstation that runs entirely as a single Rust binary with zero runtime dependencies. I started this because I wanted a unified workstation optimized for my own productivity. My goal was to build an environment where I could securely remote into my machine from anywhere, seamlessly view and modify local files, and run AI agents or drop into a terminal side-by-side, all integrated with a rich set of built-in tools. Here is what makes it different: Multi-agent sessions: Run multiple agents in parallel, each with its own isolated…

    Apr 2026 · lukan.ai · its alternatives →

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    Sklm▲60

    Centralize, scope, and sync skills for every AI agent

    Jun 2026 · auran0s.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Velane▲95

    n8n is built for humans dragging nodes on a canvas. That breaks down at B2B scale (embedding in a product, multi-tenant scalability, etc). n8n does have an MCP server so agents can create workflows too, but it outputs raw JSON. That's fine for n8n's engine, but painful for a coding agent (or a human reviewing its output) to read, write, diff, or debug. I'm building an alternative where workflows are authored by a coding agent in [a more dev-legible format] instead of JSON blobs, and execute it at scale.

    Jul 2026 · velane.sh · its alternatives →

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    AI Designer MCP▲89

    Give your agent tools to create beautiful, codebase-aware UI

    Apr 2026 · aidesigner.ai · its alternatives →

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    Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams▲62

    We recently started to use agents to update some documentation across our codebase on a weekly basis, and everything quickly turned into cron jobs, logs, and terminal output. it worked, but was hard to tell what agents were doing, why something failed, or whether a workflow was actually progressing. We thought it would be more interesting to treat agents as long-lived workers with state and responsibilities and explicit handoffs. Something you can actually see and reason about, instead of just tailing logs. So we built Clawe, a small coordination layer on top of OpenClaw that lets agent…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Skeezo▲10

    The agent-native macOS IDE that drives your installed Claude Code — parallel agent lanes, team chat, multi-repo workspaces, and automation. No API key.

    Sep 2026 · skeezo.dev · its alternatives →

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    20+ Claude Code agents coordinating on real work (open source)▲53

    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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    Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful▲44

    Minimal kernel to make any AI coding agent stateful. Clone, point your agent, go. - oguzbilgic/agent-kernel

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    AgentSphere▲7

    First MCP-Integrated Agent-native Infra for AI Agents

    2025 · agentsphere.run · its alternatives →

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    Devspace▲19

    Your smartest, fastest teammate. They’re called Astroagents.

    Nov 2025 · devspace.uno · its alternatives →

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