The best planning-with-files alternatives

claude-skills

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — engineering, marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial & finance, and your daily productivity skills.

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• you specifically need agent-plugins or agentic-ai

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, claude-code-skills, claude-skills with planning-with-files.

agents

wshobson/agents

Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity

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• you want the more widely starred option (42.2k)
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agents

Shares agent-skills, claude, claude-code, claude-skills with planning-with-files.

Graft

trailhq/Graft

Turbocharge Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini & every coding agent: faster, cheaper, with contextual understanding specific to your codebase.

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• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents or anthropic

Shares claude-code, codex, context-engineering, cursor with planning-with-files.

Vibe-Skills

foryourhealth111-pixel/Vibe-Skills

Intelligent Skill routing and workflow orchestration for AI agents — +21.12 pp reward, −29.6% tokens on SkillsBench with DeepSeekV4Flash-VE.

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-coding

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, codex, context-engineering with planning-with-files.

Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

A practical Claude Code guide with clear mental models and copy-paste examples — setup, prompt engineering, slash commands, skills, hooks, subagents, agent teams, and MCP servers. Beginner path to power-user depth. Featured in Awesome Claude Code.

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• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-coding or ai-agents

Shares agent-skills, claude, claude-code, claude-code-skills with planning-with-files.

ouroboros

Q00/ouroboros

Agent OS: the agent gets smarter on its own. We just hold the line: Interview-gated, staged evaluation, budgeted evolution loop. MCP server, 14 runtimes: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Copilot, Kiro and more.

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• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-os or agentic-ai

Shares claude-code, codex, coding-agent with planning-with-files.

agentic-awesome-skills

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

AAS Core is the local, agent-first control plane for complete catalog discovery, agent-owned selection, stack validation, and planning, backed by 2,115+ agentic skills. Includes CLI, local MCP, catalog, plugins, and Workbench.

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• you want the more widely starred option (49.1k)
• you specifically need agentic-skills or ai-agent-skills

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, claude-code-skills, cursor with planning-with-files.

khazix-skills

KKKKhazix/khazix-skills

数字生命卡兹克开源的 AI Skills 合集 | Agent Skills: leader（帮你定义目标）, neat-freak 洁癖, hv-analysis, khazix-writer & more — Claude Code, Codex & 40+ agents

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• you specifically need ai-agents or developer-tools

Shares agent-skills, claude, claude-code, codex with planning-with-files.

gentle-ai

Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai

Gentle-AI configures the AI coding agents you already use: Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex, Pi, and more. Choose persistent memory, Spec-Driven Development, curated skills, MCP servers, personas, and optional bounded review. Open source, no agent lock-in.

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• you would rather work in Go than Python
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents or ai-coding

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, codex, cursor with planning-with-files.

ruflo

ruvnet/ruflo

🌊 The original agent harness. Deploy intelligent multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features adaptive memory, self-learning intelligence, federation, vector RAG integration, and native Claude Code / Codex / Hermes and many more Integrated

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• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you want the more widely starred option (80.8k)
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agentic-framework

Shares autonomous-agents, claude-code, codex, multi-agent-systems with planning-with-files.

headroom

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (78.8k)
• you specifically need agent or ai

Shares claude-code, context-engineering, cursor with planning-with-files.

distilly

titanwings/distilly

Distilly — Distill how they think into reusable Skills for any Agent or Bot. Formerly Colleague Skill（原同事 Skill）.

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• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you specifically need agentic-ai or ai-agent

Shares agent-skills, claude-code, claude-skills, codex with planning-with-files.