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[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAGAlternatives
LinearRAG alternatives for AI agents.
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LinearRAG
[ICLR 2026] LinearRAG: Linear Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation on Large-scale Corpora
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Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#3
Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs
12K starsApr 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding#4
A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system
34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add microsoft/graphrag#5
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. 简洁通用的群体智能引擎，预测万物
70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish#6
AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph. App code + database schema + infrastructure in one graph.
91K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add safishamsi/graphify#7
100+ AI Agent & RAG apps you can actually run — clone, customize, ship.
114K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps#8
Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents
28K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add getzep/graphiti#9
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
25K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Cinnamon/kotaemon#10
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#11
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
22K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#12
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#13
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#14
Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!
12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#15
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#16
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/cogneeHow to choose
When should you switch?
Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep LinearRAG if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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