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Hcls Agent Skills alternatives for AI agents.

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Hcls Agent Skills

Curated collection of 39 agent skills for healthcare and life sciences workflows, installable via the Agent Skills standard.

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#1

Last30days Skill

Similarity 95Trust 91Excellent 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.

54K starsJul 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 95Trust 88Excellent 100

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

38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#3

GPT Researcher

Similarity 94Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#4

Local Deep Research

Similarity 93Trust 90Excellent 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.

8.7K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#5

Deep Research

Similarity 88Trust 88Excellent 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
#6

Scientific Agent Skills

Similarity 75Trust 91Excellent 100

Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 160,000+ scientists worldwide. 140 ready-to-use skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, and the open Agent Skills standard.

32K starsJul 28, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
#7

Cognee

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 100

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

30K starsJul 30, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#8

Awesome Claude Code

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

A curated list of awesome skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins for Claude Code by Anthropic

50K starsJul 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
#9

Erpnext

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

Free and Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

36K starsJun 16, 2026 pushgeo-sciencePythonHealth Data
$ npx skills add frappe/erpnext
#10

Khazix Skills

Similarity 75Trust 93Excellent 100

A collection of practical, installable AI agent skills for disk cleanup, AI news retrieval, and project management, following the Agent Skills standard.

18K starsJul 24, 2026 pushutilityPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add KKKKhazix/khazix-skills
#11

Planning With Files

Similarity 74Trust 89Excellent 100

Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running agentic tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans that survive context loss and /clear, plus a deterministic completion gate and multi-agent shared state on disk. Manus-style. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the SKILL.md standard.

26K starsJul 24, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#12

Agentskills

Similarity 74Trust 90Excellent 100

Specification and documentation for Agent Skills

23K starsJul 10, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add agentskills/agentskills
#13

Skills

Similarity 74Trust 86Excellent 100

Public repository for Agent Skills

162K starsJul 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add anthropics/skills
#14

Claude Skills

Similarity 74Trust 88Excellent 100

337 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 330+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — engineering, marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial & finance, and your daily productivity skills.

23K starsJul 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
#15

SkillOpt

Similarity 74Trust 93Excellent 100

SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer that trains reusable natural-language skills for frozen LLM agents through trajectory-driven edits, validation-gated updates, and deployable best_skill.md artifacts.

13K starsJul 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add microsoft/SkillOpt
#16

Claude Skills

Similarity 73Trust 89Excellent 100

66 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer.

9.9K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills

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