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10 alternatives to planning-with-files

othmanadi/planning-with-files — Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style. Ins (27,610 stars, MIT, automation, dev-tools, ai).

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1ruvnet/ruflo7.1MIT78,668
2nvidia/skillspector4.5Apache-2.020,809
3sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills7.1MIT48,366
4wshobson/agents5.7MIT41,588
5openai/codex-plugin-cc7.2Apache-2.034,543
6kkkkhazix/khazix-skills6.6MIT21,654
7swarmclawai/andrej-karpathy-skills5.8MIT55
8zenstory-ai/oh-story-claudecode4.1MIT7,842
9elara-labs/code-context-engine4.3MIT436
10murilolol/muri-saver5.8MIT1

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