Alternatives to octos
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. octos itself: install octos.
eliza
Open source agentic operating system
open-code-review
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openhuman
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claurst
Agentic Coding for Builders who Ship
agent-skills-platform
Build tested agent skills and govern their lifecycle through a user-defined marketplace: evidence, discovery, updates, rollback, quarantine, and 17-pl
forge
A Python framework for self-hosted LLM tool-calling and multi-step agentic workflows
openakita
An open-source AI assistant framework with skills and agent architecture
imcodes
The IM for agents. Shared Agent Context & Memory, supervised execution, and cross-agent audit across AI providers
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
onchainos-skills
Skills for AI agents to integrate with the OKX OnchainOS API — Wallet, token discovery, market data, DEX swap, and transaction broadcasting
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
qwen-code
An open-source AI coding agent that lives in your terminal
MiMo-Code
MiMo Code: Where Models and Agents Co-Evolve
dimos
Dimensional is the agentic operating system for physical space. Command humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other hardware platforms in natural languag
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
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
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 octos — 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.
octos 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.