Alternatives to yek
Other tools in this directory that do similar work, with a verified install command for each. yek itself: install yek.
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
UI-TARS Desktop
The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra
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
skillspector
Security scanner for AI agent skills. Detect vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, security risks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply-chai
gastown
Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager
cc-connect
Bridge local AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex) to messaging platforms (Feishu/Lark, DingTalk, Slack, Telegram, Discord, LINE,
sentencepiece
Unsupervised text tokenizer for Neural Network-based text generation
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
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
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
cc-switch-cli
⭐️ A cross-platform CLI All-in-One assistant tool for Claude Code, Codex & Gemini CLI
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
gnhf
Before I go to bed, I tell my agents: good night, have fun
Claude DevTools
The missing DevTools for Claude Code — inspect session logs, tool calls, token usage, subagents, and context window in a visual UI. Free, open source
rapid-mlx
Rapid-MLX is an open-source (Apache 2.0) OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible LLM inference server and Mac app for Apple Silicon, built on MLX, focused on
Google Assistant Unofficial Desktop Client
A cross-platform unofficial Google Assistant Client for Desktop (powered by Google Assistant SDK)
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 yek — 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.
yek 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.