AI Plugin Indexopen alternatives
The most used alternatives to open are telecrawl, discussion, memory-policy. All are search and web skills with an active GitHub repository, ranked below by GitHub stars and recent activity.
| # | Skill | What it does | Runs | Updated | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ref | open block | Open markdown documents in Penpal for collaborative review. Use when you want a human to review a document, plan, or research artifact. | Skill | 2 days ago | 91 |
| 1 | telecrawl steipete | Telegram archive: chats, messages, contacts, folders, search; import from Telegram Desktop/macOS. | Skill | yesterday | 7.4k |
| 2 | discussion samchon | Runs structured multi-agent discussions for open-ended typia topics. Use only when the user explicitly asks for Discussion or a team debate with transcripts and conclusions; do not use for Self-Review, a solo or multi-agent review, research review, or issue discovery. | Skill | 6 days ago | 5.9k |
| 3 | memory-policy getzep | Use when deciding whether to search Zep memory for user preferences. | Skill | 6 days ago | 5.0k |
| 4 | session-search Companion-Inc | Search prior Feynman session transcripts on disk. Use when the user asks about earlier research sessions, past findings, or wants to resume a prior session. | Skill | 2 days ago | 10.0k |
| 5 | mem-search thedotmack | Use this when the user asks to search memory, "did we already solve this?", "how did we do X last time?", or wants work from previous sessions. | Skill | yesterday | 102k |
| 6 | ticker-snapshot google-research | Quick structured overview of a single public equity — identity, sector, market cap, valuation ratios, current price, recent trend. | Skill | 6 days ago | 39k |
| 7 | podcast codewhale-hq | Turn research into a spoken podcast — script, synthesize, stitch. Use when: podcast, generate a podcast, audio briefing, narrate, or turn this into audio. | Skill | 2 days ago | 41k |
| 8 | eli5 Companion-Inc | Explain research, papers, or technical ideas in plain English with minimal jargon, concrete analogies, and clear takeaways. Use when the user says "ELI5 this", asks for a simple explanation of a paper or research result, wants jargon removed, or asks what something technically dense actually means. | Skill | 2 days ago | 10.0k |
| 9 | mem-search thedotmack | Use this when the user asks to search memory, "did we already solve this?", "how did we do X last time?", or wants work from previous sessions. | Skill | yesterday | 102k |
| 10 | hindsight-recall vectorize-io | Search long-term memory for relevant context from past coding sessions using Hindsight MCP tools | Skill | yesterday | 52k |
| 11 | sn-search-image OpenSenseNova | USE FOR Google-backed image discovery via Serper.dev. Returns image URLs, page URLs, titles, and source domains. | Skill | 12 days ago | 5.8k |
| 12 | wacli the-open-agent | Send WhatsApp messages to other people or search/sync WhatsApp history via the wacli CLI. | Skill | 2 days ago | 5.7k |
Questions
What is the best alternative to open?
By usage, telecrawl is the most popular alternative, with 7.4k GitHub stars. The right choice depends on which features and hosting you need.
Is open still maintained?
Its last commit was 2 days ago. You can see current activity on its listing page.