TinyFish Cookbook is a collection of example applications, recipes, and automations built with TinyFish, a web service that lets AI agents search the live web, read pages, and perform browser-based tasks. Developers use it to learn how to build web agents and connect them with workflows such as research, monitoring, and data collection. The catalogue entries provide agent skills and integrations for working with these examples and TinyFish endpoints.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook --skill oss-alternativesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbookWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook/oss-alternatives)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook/oss-alternatives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook/oss-alternatives/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook/oss-alternatives"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook/oss-alternatives.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to low
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- low Excessive Agency · line 6 Skill's behavior or capabilities extend beyond its stated purpose. Scope creep allows an agent to perform actions unrelated to its documented functionality, increasing the attack surface.Fix: Limit the skill's scope to its documented purpose. Remove instructions that enable the agent to perform actions outside its stated functionality.
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00199 | $0.02178 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00080 | $0.00871 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00040 | $0.00436 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00218 |
Grade A, and why
oss-alternatives scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OSS Alternatives Finder
Given any paid SaaS tool or commercial API, find and rank the best actively maintained open source alternatives by searching GitHub and developer communities in real time — then verify the health of each one and summarise exactly what a developer gains and loses by switching.
Pre-flight check
Before doing anything, verify TinyFish is installed and authenticated:
tinyfish --version
tinyfish auth status
If not installed: npm install -g tinyfish
If not authenticated: tinyfish auth login
Step 1 — Understand the tool
Before searching, identify:
- Tool name — exactly as it is known (e.g. "Datadog", "Auth0", "Algolia")
- Primary use case — what problem it solves (e.g. "APM and log aggregation", "authentication", "search-as-a-service")
- Key features the user cares about — if not stated, infer from the tool's known capabilities
If the user hasn't told you what aspects matter most to them, ask one quick question: "Any features that are must-haves for your switch?" — then proceed.
Step 2 — Parallel discovery
Run all three discovery agents simultaneously using background processes. Each agent searches a different surface.
# Agent 1 — GitHub search for alternatives
tinyfish agent run \
--url "https://github.com/search?q=open+source+alternative+{TOOL_NAME}&type=repositories&s=stars&o=desc" \
"You are on a GitHub search results page for open source alternatives to {TOOL_NAME}.
List the top 6 repository results. For each one extract:
- full repo name (owner/repo)
- star count
- description
- last commit date shown
Do NOT click any repo links. Do NOT paginate. Return JSON array of objects with fields: repo, stars, description, last_commit." \
--sync > /tmp/oss_github.json &
# Agent 2 — awesome-selfhosted / curated lists
tinyfish agent run \
--url "https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted" \
"You are on the awesome-selfhosted README page. Search this page for any tools related to '{TOOL_USE_CASE}' or '{TOOL_NAME}'.
List up to 5 matching entries with their name, one-line description, and the GitHub URL if shown.
Do NOT follow any links. Do NOT scroll more than twice. Return JSON array with fields: name, description, url." \
--sync > /tmp/oss_awesome.json &
# Agent 3 — developer community discussion
tinyfish agent run \
--url "https://www.reddit.com/search/?q=open+source+alternative+{TOOL_NAME}+self+host&sort=relevance&t=year" \
"You are on Reddit search results for open source alternatives to {TOOL_NAME}.
Read the titles and snippets of the top 8 posts. Extract any specific tool names mentioned as alternatives.
Do NOT click any post links. Do NOT scroll. Return a JSON array of tool names mentioned: [{name, context}]." \
--sync > /tmp/oss_reddit.json \
--browser-profile stealth &
# Wait for all three to finish
wait
# Collect results
echo "=== GITHUB ===" && cat /tmp/oss_github.json
echo "=== AWESOME ===" && cat /tmp/oss_awesome.json
echo "=== COMMUNITY ===" && cat /tmp/oss_reddit.json
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 226 lines · 199 tokens per session scan A 45c5a162d3c8
oss-alternatives is a skill published in the GitHub repository tinyfish-io/tinyfish-cookbook (2,263 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 199 tokens to every session and 2,178 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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