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Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skillsAlternatives
Deep Research Agent alternatives for AI agents.
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Deep Research Agent
An autonomous AI agent pipeline for rigorous academic research, featuring strict DOI verification, multi-agent Scopus/OpenAlex/Semantic Scholar retrieval, and APA 7th .docx generation
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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
~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#4
Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#5
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#6
Your personal intelligence agent. Watches the world from multiple data sources and pings you when something changes.
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$ npx skills add calesthio/Crucix#7
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
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$ npx skills add mui/material-ui#8
Marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering.
36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills#9
24 Lessons, 12 Weeks, Get Started as a Web Developer
96K starsJun 14, 2026 pusheducationJavaScriptEducation
$ npx skills add microsoft/Web-Dev-For-Beginners#10
Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥
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$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js#11
A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress
26K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add jarrodwatts/claude-hud#12
Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
22K starsMay 26, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markdown-it/markdown-it#13
A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.
37K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add markedjs/marked#14
A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.
20K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdata-analysisJavaScriptSQL
$ npx skills add knex/knex#15
Markdown for the component era
20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add mdx-js/mdx#16
Vercel's official collection of agent skills
29K starsJun 10, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
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