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The best Distilly alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Distilly, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Distilly

Turns a person's messages, docs, and interviews into a reusable profile that AI agents can load.

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    Understand Anything

    Open source · MIT · ★ 89.7k

    Turns a codebase, wiki, or docs into an explorable graph you can search and ask questions about.

    Best for: Developers joining a new team who need to learn an unfamiliar codebase; People who want a visual map of how files and modules depend on each other

    Full review Distilly vs Understand Anything
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    wshobson/agents

    Open source · MIT · ★ 42.1k

    A collection of plugins, agents, skills, and commands that run across several AI coding tools.

    Best for: Developers who already use one of the listed AI coding tools and want ready-made specialist agents; Python or JavaScript/TypeScript developers looking for testing, packaging, or project setup guidance

    Full review Distilly vs wshobson/agents
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    planning-with-files

    Open source · MIT · ★ 27.8k

    A file-based planning skill that keeps AI coding agents on track across resets and crashes.

    Best for: Developers running long multi-step tasks in Claude Code or Codex CLI; People who lose agent progress when the context window fills or is cleared

    Full review Distilly vs planning-with-files
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    Ruflo

    Open source · MIT · ★ 80.6k

    An agent harness that adds multi-agent swarms, shared memory and coordination on top of Claude Code and Codex.

    Best for: Developers already using Claude Code or Codex who want multiple agents working together; Teams experimenting with multi-agent workflows and shared memory

    Full review
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    Agentic Awesome Skills

    Open source · MIT · ★ 49k

    A local catalog of 2,800+ reusable instruction files that helps coding agents pick and review skills.

    Best for: Developers using Codex or Claude who want agent-chosen instructions for a project; Teams that want to review an exact, saved list of skills before installing them

    Full review
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    AutoHarness

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.6k

    Claude Code plugin that learns reusable skills from your sessions and prunes unused ones.

    Best for: Developers who use Claude Code heavily and repeat the same kinds of tasks; Teams that want project-level skills to build up without manual upkeep

    Full review
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    codebase-memory-mcp

    Open source · MIT · ★ 48k

    A local tool that maps your code, docs and infrastructure into a graph so AI coding agents can query it.

    Best for: Developers who use an MCP-capable AI coding agent on a large codebase; Engineers who want to find where a feature lives and how calls connect across files

    Full review
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    9Router

    Open source · MIT · ★ 31.8k

    A local router that lets AI coding tools use multiple model providers, with fallback when limits hit.

    Best for: Developers who use AI coding tools and want to reduce spending; People with several AI subscriptions who want to use up their quota

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Distilly. We don't take payment for placement.