Alternatives to gastown
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. gastown itself: install gastown.
yubikey-agent
yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys
UI-TARS Desktop
The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra
Skills Manager
A lightweight desktop app to manage, sync, and organize AI agent skills across 50+ coding tools — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and
snyk-agent-scan
Security scanner for AI agents, MCP servers and agent skills
gascity
Orchestration-builder SDK for multi-agent coding workflows
skillspector
Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chai
archgw
Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay
ralph-orchestrator
An improved implementation of the Ralph Wiggum technique for autonomous AI agent orchestration
spring-loaded
Java agent that enables class reloading in a running JVM
GitHub Copilot
The GitHub Copilot app is an agent-native desktop experience for finding, running, steering, and landing software work across your GitHub repositories
flyline
Flyline: a Bash plugin to replace readline for a modern line editing experience: syntax highlighting, agent integration, rich prompts, tooltips, fuzzy
ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from
LX Music Assistant Desktop Edition
Installed with brew. Open source, with a documented one-command setup.
chrome-devtools-mcp
Chrome DevTools for coding agents
langgraph-cli
Build resilient agents
dumpling
TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. N
llmfit
Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware
screenpipe
YC (S26) | Open Computer History | Record your screen continuously locally and provide context to your agents (Claude, Codex, Openclaw, Hermes, Runner
cc-connect
Bridge local AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex) to messaging platforms (Feishu/Lark, DingTalk, Slack, Telegram, Discord, LINE,
openskills
Universal skills loader for AI coding agents - npm i -g openskills
aichat
All-in-one LLM CLI tool featuring Shell Assistant, Chat-REPL, RAG, AI Tools & Agents, with access to OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Groq, and more
Copilot for Xcode
The first GitHub Copilot, Codeium and ChatGPT Xcode Source Editor Extension
backlog-md
Backlog.md - A tool for managing project collaboration between humans and AI Agents in a git ecosystem
Clawd on Desk
A pixel desktop pet that watches Claude Code, Codex, Cursor & other AI coding agents — so you don't have to
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 gastown — 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.
gastown 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.