The best open-design alternatives

cherry-studio

CherryHQ/cherry-studio

AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs

Choose cherry-studio if…

• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need ai-agent or claude-code

Shares agent-skills, deepseek, deepseek-harness, hermes-agent with open-design.

modlens

liustack/modlens

The first vision plugin for DeepSeek Harness, and the vision bridge for every text-only coding agent. Paste an image, get structured JSON evidence (OCR, layout, semantics). | 全网最强 DeepSeek Harness 外挂视觉插件，为 DeepSeek、GLM 等纯文本模型外挂视觉能力，粘贴图片即得结构化 JSON 证据（OCR、版面、语义）。

Choose modlens if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need claude-code or claude-skills

Shares agent-skills, deepseek, dsh, dsh-plugin with open-design.

distilly

titanwings/distilly

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

Choose distilly if…

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

Shares agent-skills, deepseek-harness, dsh-plugin, hermes-agent with open-design.

skill

anbeime/skill

收录最全、更新最快的技能Skills商店：精选原创技能包（涵盖文档处理、内容创作、编程开发、机器学习、自动化工作流），全部打包好可直接安装使用！同时自动抓取GitHub上万个Skills项目，按分类、更新时间、Star数量整理。The most comprehensive and frequently updated AI Agent skill library, featuring curated skill packs across document processing, content creation, programming, machine learning, automated workflows, and many more domains.

Choose skill if…

• you would rather work in Python than TypeScript
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need claude-skills or codex

Shares agent-skills, deepseek, deepseek-harness, dsh-plugin with open-design.

yao

YaoApp/yao

✨ All your agents and workspaces in one place, on every device you own. Track tasks on a board, accessible from desktop, mobile, browser, or API. Self-hosted.

Choose yao if…

• you would rather work in Go than TypeScript
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-harness or agent-orchestration

Shares agent-skills, deepseek, deepseek-harness, dsh with open-design.

iPolloWork

Devin-AXIS/iPolloWork

Enterprise-grade, local-first Agent Workbench for people and agent teams. A unified multi-engine workspace for Codex Harness, DeepSeek Harness, and OpenCode, with unified plugins and Skills, multi-agent projects and tasks, and editable code, documents, presentations, design, and video.

Choose iPolloWork if…

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

Shares agent-skills, deepseek-harness, dsh-plugin, hermes-agent with open-design.

Kun

KunAgent/Kun

Local-first AI agent workspace for coding, writing, design, research, and automation — one runtime for desktop GUI and TUI.

Choose Kun if…

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

Shares ai-design, deepseek, desktop-app, local-first with open-design.

J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7

Tiger3807861189/J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7

J-Space Cognition Suite V3.7 - AI cognitive-enhancement Skills based on Anthropic's J-space global workspace research. | 哔哩哔哩：Tiger380 (UID 3494375382321675) — https://space.bilibili.com/3494375382321675

Choose J-Space-Cognition-Suite-V3.7 if…

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

Shares agent-skills, deepseek, deepseek-harness, dsh with open-design.

deepchat

ThinkInAIXYZ/deepchat

🐬DeepChat - A smart assistant that connects powerful AI to your personal world

Choose deepchat if…

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

Shares agent-skills, deepseek, hermes-agent with open-design.

archify

tt-a1i/archify

Agent skill for beautiful, verifiable architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow, and lifecycle diagrams—self-contained HTML with motion and crisp export.

Choose archify if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than TypeScript
• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need architecture-as-code or architecture-diagram

Shares agent-skills, coding-agents, deepseek-harness, dsh-plugin with open-design.

html-anything

nexu-io/html-anything

✨ The agentic HTML editor — your local AI agent writes the HTML, you ship it. 🚀 75 Skills × 9 Surfaces (magazine · deck · poster · XHS / tweet · prototype · data report · Hyperframes) 🛡️ Sandboxed preview · 📤 1-click to WeChat / X / Zhihu / HTML / PNG 🔑 Zero API key — Claude Code / Cursor / Codex / Gemini / Copilot / OpenCode / Qwen / Aider.

Choose html-anything if…

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

Shares agent-skills, ai-design, byok, coding-agents with open-design.

DeepSeek Harness（DSH）一只住在 DSH 界面右下角的小鲸鱼娘，帮你盯着DeepSeek账户余额。QQ弹弹，支持拖拽吸附、左吸附翻转、数字滚动动画，随界面自动启用，建议直接喊来你的dsh安装

Choose DeepSeek-Balance-Whale-Widget if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than TypeScript
• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need cordis or developer-tools

Shares deepseek, deepseek-harness, dsh, dsh-plugin with open-design.