AI · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to spacecake

Run Claude Code agents in terminal with a visual editor

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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   Claude Code Desktop App Redesigned▲564

   Run parallel coding agents from one desktop workspace

   Apr 2026 · claude.com · its alternatives →

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   Agent Bar▲162

   Run Claude Code from your menu bar

   Feb 2026 · aayushbuilds.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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   GitHub Agent HQ▲192

   Run Claude, Codex & Copilot directly in GitHub & VS Code

   Feb 2026 · github.blog · its alternatives →

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   opencode▲393

   Your terminal's AI agent, with any model you want

   2025 · opencode.ai · its alternatives →

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   Agent Runners▲185

   Build and ship with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini in Netlify

   2025 · netlify.com · its alternatives →

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   Epho▲156

   Hey folks, Burak here. Epho is an API that allows running Claude Code, Codex or Opencode in a sandbox in the cloud. It abstracts away sandboxes, and allows running coding agents with a single HTTP request. Epho came out of our own struggles with building our own AI analyst: - Sandboxes give you bare machines; you need to configure them for agentic workloads. - Each agent behaves differently, and you need to build integrations with each of them. - Sandbox providers are not very reliable, which means you need to figure out a multi-provider strategy to avoid failures. - Logging, artifacts,…

   Aug 2026 · epho.io · its alternatives →

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   Vibe Pocket▲135

   Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile

   Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com · its alternatives →

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   ShioriCode▲119

   Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code

   May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →

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   Orca▲89

   Your control center for parallel AI agents

   Apr 2026 · onorca.dev · its alternatives →

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    AgentGrid▲77

    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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    AgentBox – SDK to Run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in Any Sandbox▲8

    Hi HN, AgentBox is an SDK for running coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) inside sandboxes (Docker, E2B, Modal, Daytona, Vercel). One API. Swap the agent or the sandbox and your code doesn't change. Think of it as what the AI SDK did for LLMs, but for agent + runtime. Most wrappers call agents in non interactive mode (claude --print, codex exec). AgentBox instead boots each agent's native server inside the sandbox (Codex app-server over JSON-RPC, OpenCode serve over HTTP/SSE, Claude Code's SDK WebSocket transport) and drives it from the host, behaving like an interactive…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands▲61

    A pre-execution guard for AI coding agents. It blocks destructive Git and file system commands, plus common attempts to access sensitive files, before a tool call runs. Supports Amp Code, Antigravity CLI, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Grok Build, Hermes Agent, Kimi Code

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scapefree tier, from $9.99/mo▲59

    Hey HN, we've been using Claude Code daily for months, and built Scape to fix our biggest pain point: managing multiple worktrees quickly & reducing the mental load of switching between them quickly. What we built: Scape is a macOS menu bar app that sits on top of Claude Code and gives you: - One-click worktrees: click a button, get a new git worktree with a Claude session already working on it. Develop in parallel without leaving your current branch. - Toolkit: per-session actions like "Create PR", "Commit & Push", "Run & Fix Tests." Add your own with bash scripts or prompts. -…

    23d ago · scape.work · its alternatives →

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    Abralo – Free, easy way to run several Claude Code agents in one window▲37

    Hi guys, I've been using Claude Code for almost everything lately. Have given one an email account so it can research business leads, draft emails, fact-check them and clear them with me before sending (works really well by the way). I also tend to have a few Claude Code agents running at any one time for coding. I used to create a split terminal to manage them from there, but found working in the terminal all day pretty depressing and, more importantly, found it hard to follow Claude Code's process and see which agents needed my immediate attention. I tried Anthropic's VS Code Claude Code…

    Jul 2026 · abralo.com · its alternatives →

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    Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents▲45

    I've been delegating work to Claude Code for the past few months, and it's been genuinely transformative—but managing multiple agents doing different things became chaos. No tool existed for this workflow, so I built one. The Problem When you're working with AI agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf), you end up in a weird situation: - You have tasks scattered across your head, Slack, email, and the CLI - Agents need clear work items, context, and role-specific instructions - You have no visibility into what agents are actually doing - Failed tasks just... disappear. No retry, no notification…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Termexo 0.6▲4

    Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode in one Windows workspace

    Aug 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Maestro▲20

    Bloomberg Terminal for CLI agents

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust▲13

    Hi everyone! Hope you had a great day so far, and maybe its about to get just a little bit better (thanks Winter ;) So I had way to many terminal windows flying about when using Claude, and kept losing track of which terminal / session / project im in right now. So I built a solution for that, presented it to my team, and now we're using our new tool all the time, and developing it to be the most helpful agents organization tool we can think of. Unfortunatelly, Claude Code only for now, will do Codex soon tho. What it does for you: Main features: - Overview of your projects, with…

    Aug 2026 · episko.dev · its alternatives →

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    Sofos▲11

    Claude Code, reimagined as a workspace for business teams

    Jul 2026 · sofos.co · its alternatives →

20. 20IA
    I am running 3 coding agents non-stop over the last 3 days. Here is how▲10

    1. Headless mode Headless mode allows you to use the AI as a command-line utility for automation and scripting. In Claude Code you run it with the -p flag: claude -p, in codex - exec, opencode - run. 2. Ask human The traditional communication channel with the operator won't work in headless mode - we need to implement a dedicated tool. Here is an example of how this can be done https://github.com/sermakarevich/claude/tree/main/mcp/ask_hu... 3. Tasks queue Beads is a lightweight distributed graph issue tracker for AI agents, powered by Dolt. You can…

    Jun 2026 · its alternatives →

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    Cupcake – Better performance and security for coding agents (via OPA)▲12

    We're releasing early efforts on coding agent governance with Cupcake [1] - an open-source policy enforcement layer with native integrations. You write rules in policy-as-code (OPA/Rego), and Cupcake integrates them into the agent runtime via Hooks. See it in action (Desktop only): https://cupcake-policy-studio.vercel.app/example-policies/se... Help us build: https://github.com/eqtylab/cupcake We are EQTY Lab, our mission is verifiable AI (identity, provenance, and governance). With the rise of capable agents like Claude Code, it became…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Code▲20

    Hey HN, Today we're launching Code, a community-driven, open-source coding agent for your terminal. It's a fork of OpenAI's codex with a focus on developer ergonomics and local control. Key features: - Browser integration – attach to your Chrome via CDP or use a built-in headless browser. You can browse pages, run the CLI in a browser session, and even take screenshots from the terminal. - Multi-agent commands – /plan, /solve and /code orchestrate multiple models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to propose and implement solutions, with consensus or race options. - Diff viewer – see…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Agentastic.dev is Ghostty and Git worktrees = multi-agent CC/Codex IDE▲11

    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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    I built a service to run Claude Code in the Cloud▲13

    2025 · agentwrap.dev · its alternatives →

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