#1
A visual playground for agentic workflows: Iterate over your agents 10x faster
5.7K starsMay 25, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add PySpur-Dev/pyspurAlternatives
Cactus alternatives for AI agents.
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Low-latency AI engine for mobile devices & wearables
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#2
AdalFlow: The library to build & auto-optimize LLM applications.
4.2K starsMay 29, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add SylphAI-Inc/AdalFlow#3
Build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Sim is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.
29K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add simstudioai/sim#4
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
35K starsMar 26, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj#5
Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
26K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataMDXRAG
$ npx skills add deepset-ai/haystack#6
LlamaIndex is the leading document agent and OCR platform
50K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add run-llama/llama_index#7
Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM
30K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add onyx-dot-app/onyx#8
PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.
24K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataJavaRAG
$ npx skills add opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf#9
An open source, privacy focused alternative to NotebookLM for teams with no data limits. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9
14K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add MODSetter/SurfSense#10
[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.
12K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add StarTrail-org/LEANN#11
[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.
12K starsJun 7, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add yichuan-w/LEANN#12
Open source agentic operating system
19K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add elizaOS/eliza#13
High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations
8.7K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Future-House/paper-qa#14
🔍大模型应用开发实战一：RAG 技术全栈指南，在线阅读地址：https://datawhalechina.github.io/all-in-rag/
8.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/all-in-rag#15
🦛 CHONK docs with Chonkie ✨ — The lightweight ingestion library for fast, efficient and robust RAG pipelines
4.1K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add chonkie-inc/chonkie#16
Curated list of the best truly open-source AI projects, models, tools, and infrastructure.
3.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add alvinreal/awesome-opensource-aiHow to choose
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