Guides

Ranked picks built from our reviews and usability scores — verdicts included, hype excluded.

Best Claude Code Tools & Skills467 reviewed · Skills, agents, and CLI tools that extend Claude Code and other AI coding assistants — reviewed with honest verdicts, not just star counts.Best MCP Servers202 reviewed · Model Context Protocol servers worth connecting to your AI assistant — and which ones to skip.Best Open-Source Workflow Automation Tools167 reviewed · Self-hostable alternatives to Zapier and friends, ranked by how honest the setup story really is.Best Local LLM Tools174 reviewed · Run, serve, and chat with models on your own hardware — the tools that actually deliver.Best Self-Hosted Apps347 reviewed · Own your data: the self-hosted apps that are genuinely worth the maintenance burden.Best Open-Source Dev Tools534 reviewed · Editors, terminals, and utilities that earn a place in a daily workflow.Best Open-Source Databases & Data Tools183 reviewed · Databases, search engines, and data platforms — reviewed for real-world fit, not benchmarks.Best Open-Source AI Coding Agents (2026) — measured, not ranked by stars12 reviewed · Twelve terminal and editor agents, each cloned and run on our own machine — install time, dependency count, build and test results.Best MCP Servers (2026) — we booted every one21 reviewed · Every server started over stdio on a clean machine, then ranked by capability per context token — tools exposed per 1,000 tokens of tools/list.