The best agents-cli alternatives

generative-ai

GoogleCloudPlatform/generative-ai

Sample code and notebooks for Generative AI on Google Cloud, with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Choose generative-ai if…

• you would rather work in Jupyter Notebook than Python
• you want the more widely starred option (17.8k)
• you specifically need gcp or gemini-api

Shares agents, gemini, generative-ai, google-cloud with agents-cli.

langchain

langchain-ai/langchain

The agent engineering platform.

Choose langchain if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (148.9k)
• you specifically need ai or ai-agents

Shares agents, gemini, generative-ai with agents-cli.

langgraph

langchain-ai/langgraph

Build resilient agents.

Choose langgraph if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (44.4k)
• you specifically need ai or ai-agents

Shares agents, gemini, generative-ai with agents-cli.

agent-starter-pack

GoogleCloudPlatform/agent-starter-pack

Ship AI Agents to Google Cloud in minutes, not months. Production-ready templates with built-in CI/CD, evaluation, and observability.

Choose agent-starter-pack if…

• you specifically need gcp or genai-agents

Shares agents, gemini, generative-ai with agents-cli.

haystack

deepset-ai/haystack

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

Choose haystack if…

• you want the more widely starred option (26.9k)
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.

harness-sdk

strands-agents/harness-sdk

Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.

Choose harness-sdk if…

• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.

Guardrails

NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

Choose Guardrails if…

• you specifically need guardrails or llm-safety

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.

mcp-context-forge

IBM/mcp-context-forge

An AI Gateway, registry, and proxy that sits in front of any MCP, A2A, or REST/gRPC APIs, exposing a unified endpoint with centralized discovery, guardrails and management. Optimizes Agent & Tool calling, and supports plugins.

Choose mcp-context-forge if…

• you specifically need ai or api-gateway

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.

llm-wiki-agent

SamurAIGPT/llm-wiki-agent

A personal knowledge base that builds and maintains itself. Drop in sources — Claude (or Codex/Gemini) reads them, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persistent interlinked wiki. Works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI. No API key needed.

Choose llm-wiki-agent if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need ai-agent or ai-tools

Shares gemini, generative-ai with agents-cli.

langflow

langflow-ai/langflow

Langflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.

Choose langflow if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (156.3k)
• you specifically need chatgpt or large-language-models

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.

metaflow

Netflix/metaflow

Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems

Choose metaflow if…

• you want the more widely starred option (10.3k)
• you specifically need ai or aws

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.

potpie

potpie-ai/potpie

Context Graph for AI Native SDLC

Choose potpie if…

• you specifically need ai-agents or ai-agents-framework

Shares agents, generative-ai with agents-cli.