Alternatives to chief-of-staff
chief-of-staff is an agent skill by mattpocock: Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match chief-of-staff and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. do leads the list (largest repository here (102,760 stars); active in the last 30 days). 2 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with chief-of-staff.
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chief-of-staff
Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches chief-of-staff (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1do
thedotmack
Execute a phased implementation plan using subagents.
- Largest repository here (102,760 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 102.8KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2langgraph-docs
langchain-aiOfficial
Fetches and references LangGraph Python documentation to build stateful agents, create multi-agent workflows, and implement human-in-the-loop patterns.
- Published by the vendor
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3context-engineering-collection
muratcankoylan
A comprehensive collection of Agent Skills for context engineering, harness engineering, multi-agent architectures, and production agent systems.
- Supports JavaScript and TypeScript
★ 18.2KLast active Oct 12, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4plano-agent-orchestration
katanemo
Improve multi-agent orchestration in Plano.
- Repository has 7.1K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 7.1KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5agents-build
aws-agentcoreOfficial
Use to extend an existing agent project with memory, app integration, VPC, multi-agent, migration, model, browser, code interpreter, payments, or resource…
- Published by the vendor
- Supports Python
★ 3KLast active Sep 25, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6bernstein-run
sipyourdrink-ltd
Run a verified multi-agent goal with Bernstein.
- Repository has 1.3K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.3KLast active Oct 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7subagent-driven-development
GanyuanRan
Use when executing a written implementation plan with independent tasks in the current session where delegation beats inline coordination cost; otherwise…
- Repository has 1.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.4KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8long-task-continuation
GanyuanRan
Use when a task is multi-step, may span context resets or sessions, uses subagents, or risks losing state before completion.
- Repository has 1.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.4KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9claude
dzhng
Use Claude Code as an independent `claude -p` subagent when the user explicitly asks for Claude, wants a second-agent opinion from Claude, or asks to delegate…
- Repository has 1.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.4KLast active Oct 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10crit-cli
tomasz-tomczyk
Use when an agent needs to author or reply to crit inline comments programmatically (including multi-agent workflows commenting on shared…
- Repository has 1.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.2KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11codex-subagent
davidondrej
Launch OpenAI Codex CLI as a subagent (ChatGPT subscription auth, no API key).
- Repository has 4.2K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12p9
tanweai
P9 Tech Lead mode — write Task Prompts, manage P8 agent teams, never write code yourself.
- Repository has 19.7K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 19.7KLast active Sep 9, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet