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PapersChat alternatives for AI agents.

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PapersChat

An agentic AI application that allows you to chat with your papers and gather also information from papers on ArXiv and on PubMed

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#1

Local Deep Research

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 100

~95% on SimpleQA (e.g. Qwen3.6-27B on a 3090). Supports all local and cloud LLMs (llama.cpp, Ollama, Google, ...). 10+ search engines - arXiv, PubMed, your private documents. Everything Local & Encrypted.

8.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#2

Deep Research

Similarity 112Trust 92Excellent 100

An AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large language models. The goal of this repo is to provide the simplest implementation of a deep research agent - e.g. an agent that can refine its research direction overtime and deep dive into a topic.

19K starsApr 11, 2026 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch Agent
$ npx skills add dzhng/deep-research
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 109Trust 90Excellent 100

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#4

GPT Researcher

Similarity 102Trust 86Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#5

RD Agent

Similarity 98Trust 93Excellent 100

Research and development (R&D) is crucial for the enhancement of industrial productivity, especially in the AI era, where the core aspects of R&D are mainly focused on data and models. We are committed to automating these high-value generic R&D processes through R&D-Agent, which lets AI drive data-driven AI. 🔗https://aka.ms/RD-Agent-Tech-Report

13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/RD-Agent
#6

Last30days Skill

Similarity 96Trust 93Excellent 100

Research the last 30 days across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, Polymarket, GitHub, and the web, then synthesize a grounded brief for an AI agent.

44K starsJun 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#7

OpenMontage

Similarity 92Trust 93Excellent 100

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

32K starsJul 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add calesthio/OpenMontage
#8

Learn Harness Engineering

Similarity 91Trust 91Excellent 100

Harness engineering beginner tutorial, from 0 to 1

9.8K starsJun 30, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add walkinglabs/learn-harness-engineering
#9

PageIndex

Similarity 91Trust 90Excellent 100

📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

34K starsJun 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#10

Adk Python

Similarity 91Trust 93Excellent 100

An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonMulti-Agent
$ npx skills add google/adk-python
#11

SWE Agent

Similarity 91Trust 93Excellent 100

SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]

20K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add SWE-agent/SWE-agent
#12

Agent Lightning

Similarity 90Trust 90Excellent 100

The absolute trainer to light up AI agents.

17K starsApr 29, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMLOps
$ npx skills add microsoft/agent-lightning
#13

Open Swe

Similarity 89Trust 91Excellent 100

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

10.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonCoding Agent
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/open-swe
#14

CopilotKit

Similarity 86Trust 94Excellent 100

The Frontend Stack for Agents & Generative UI. React, Angular, Mobile, Slack, and more. Makers of the AG-UI Protocol

35K starsJun 19, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add CopilotKit/CopilotKit
#15

Ragflow

Similarity 84Trust 94Excellent 100

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

83K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add infiniflow/ragflow
#16

Deer Flow

Similarity 84Trust 94Excellent 100

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

71K starsJun 14, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonMulti-Agent
$ npx skills add bytedance/deer-flow

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