6 alternatives to ChatDev

openbmb/chatdev — ChatDev 2.0: Dev All through LLM-powered Multi-Agent Collaboration (34,678 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, ai, realtime).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 185 licence-cleared components from openbmb/chatdev itself.

The alternatives in detail

• peiiii/agentverse
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• alookai/alook
  Multi-Agent Collaboration for Team and Friends
  score 6.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,489 stars · 1,730 components · search them
• lingyuanli/multigen
  Multi-agent end-to-end application - General-purpose artificial intelligence agent for multimodal agent collaboration
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 394 stars · 158 components · search them
• 1jehuang/jcode
  High performance coding agent harness written in Rust, built for heavy multi-agent dev workflows
  score 6.5/10 · MIT permissive · 21,098 stars · 1,627 components · search them
• wanikua/danghuangshang
  Open-source multi-agent collaboration system inspired by Chinese governance — deploy and coordinate specialized AI agents with OpenClaw.
  score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 2,710 stars · 93 components · search them
• agent-room-alkl/agent-room
  Put Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini & Antigravity in one room — real-time multi-agent AI collaboration over MCP for distributed dev, code review, PR handoff & frontend↔backend integration. Free, self-hostable, MCP-nat
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 105 stars · 82 components · search them

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