Alternatives to forge
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. forge itself: install forge.
clawcodex
Token efficient Claude Code full Python rebuild. AI Coding Agent in 310K LoC Python
claurst
Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
penguin-harness
🐧 Harness for RSI. Let AI Build AI. Multi-Agent Auto-Dev Platform. Everything is Transparent
AiSOC
Open-source AI Security Operations Center: alert fusion, LLM-agent triage, MITRE ATT&CK investigation, and a replayable decision ledger for every agen
caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick. Viral skill + proxy for coding agents that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like a caveman
codegraph
Pre-indexed code knowledge graph, auto syncs on code changes, for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenCode, AntiGravity, Kiro, CoPilot, and Hermes
openinterpreter
A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3
multica
Make humans and AI agents work as one team — open-source and self-hostable
open-code-review
Secure, fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-lev
qwen-code
An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal
eliza
Open source agentic operating system
MiMo-Code
MiMo Code: Where Models and Agents Co-Evolve
openagents
Open-source developer tool with a documented one-command setup.
ClaraVerse
Claraverse is a opesource privacy focused ecosystem to replace ChatGPT, Claude, N8N, ImageGen with your own hosted llm, keys and compute. With desktop
mesh-llm
Open-source developer tool with a documented one-command setup.
OpenBiliClaw
first open · source cross · platform AI content discovery agent: understands you · then proactively finds content across Bilibili · Xiaohongshu · Weib
xerj
XERJ is the new way for AI to search data. Its autoindex capability activates agents to know your data without the token waste of grep and sed. One co
openakita
An open-source AI assistant framework with skills and agent architecture
ai-dev-kit
Databricks Toolkit for Coding Agents provided by Field Engineering
locoagent
Open-source developer tool with a documented one-command setup.
octos
Octos - Agentic Operating Systems
aiden
Aiden — an autonomous AI agent and work engine built solo. It can operate your browser, terminal, files, apps, APIs, skills and tools, remember contex
capa
One capabilities.yaml wires skills, tools, rules, sub-agents, MCP servers, and plugins into Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, and
Rikugan
A reverse-engineering agent for IDA Pro and Binary Ninja
How we picked these
We match on what the tool does and how it installs, then order by how widely each project is used. We're not saying these are better or worse than forge — that depends on what you're building. We're saying they're the projects people reach for in the same situations, and each one has an install command we checked against its documentation.
forge is developed by its own authors and this page is an independent reference; we are not affiliated with or sponsored by any project listed, and nothing here is a paid placement.