Best alternatives to Berd in 2026

Working with AI agents day-to-day often means switching between several tools — one window for a coding agent, another for a general chat model, another for a specific automation. Berd, open-sourced by Block, is built to be the single desktop workspace for that instead: it manages projects, skills, extensions, automations, and model providers in one place, so an engineer or product builder has a persistent "home base" for agent work rather than a scattered set of browser tabs. Under the hood it runs on Tauri 2 and React 19 as a genuinely native app (not an Electron wrapper) across macOS, Windows, and Linux, and connects to Block's own Goose agent framework as its operational engine via an ACP WebSocket — Berd is the interface, Goose does the actual agent execution. It supports a portable "Agent Skills" framework for independently installable capability modules, and includes enterprise-oriented features like managed provider settings for organizations distributing their own configured builds.