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Deep Research alternatives for AI agents.

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Deep Research

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.

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Deep Research Web Ui

Similarity 146Trust 100Excellent 100

(Supports DeepSeek R1) An AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large language models.

2.2K starsJun 4, 2026 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch Agent
$ npx skills add AnotiaWang/deep-research-web-ui
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DeepResearch

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

Tongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent

19K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#3

MiroThinker

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

MiroThinker is a deep research agent optimized for complex research and prediction tasks. Our latest models, MiroThinker-1.7, achieves 74.0 and 75.3 on the BrowseComp and BrowseComp Zh, respectively.

8.3K starsApr 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add MiroMindAI/MiroThinker
#4

ChatPaper

Similarity 106Trust 100Excellent 100

Use ChatGPT to summarize the arXiv papers. 全流程加速科研,利用chatgpt进行论文全文总结+专业翻译+润色+审稿+审稿回复

20K starsMar 2, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add kaixindelele/ChatPaper
#5

GPT Researcher

Similarity 104Trust 100Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

27K starsApr 16, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#6

Local Deep Research

Similarity 104Trust 100Excellent 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
#7

Arxiv Latex Cleaner

Similarity 104Trust 100Excellent 100

arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv

6.9K starsMar 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
#8

Daily ArXiv AI Enhanced

Similarity 102Trust 100Excellent 100

Automatically crawl arXiv papers daily and summarize them using AI. Illustrating them using GitHub Pages.

2.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchJavaScriptResearch
$ npx skills add dw-dengwei/daily-arXiv-ai-enhanced
#9

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 99Trust 100Excellent 100

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

31K starsJun 13, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#10

Agent Skills

Similarity 97Trust 100Excellent 100

The secure, validated skill registry for professional AI coding agents. Extend Antigravity, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and more with absolute confidence.

4.6K starsJun 11, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add tech-leads-club/agent-skills
#11

Zotero Arxiv Daily

Similarity 96Trust 100Excellent 100

Recommend new arxiv papers of your interest daily according to your Zotero libarary.

5.5K starsJun 1, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add TideDra/zotero-arxiv-daily
#12

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 95Trust 100Excellent 100

Codex-native Academic Research Skills suite for human-in-the-loop academic research workflows

3.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex
#13

Openclaude

Similarity 92Trust 100Excellent 100

runs anywhere. uses anything

29K starsJun 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add Gitlawb/openclaude
#14

Suna

Similarity 92Trust 100Excellent 100

The Company AI Command Center

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add kortix-ai/suna
#15

Bisheng

Similarity 91Trust 100Excellent 100

BISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. Powerful and comprehensive features include: GenAI workflow, RAG, Agent, Unified model management, Evaluation, SFT, Dataset Management, Enterprise-level System Management, Observability and more.

11K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptOCR
$ npx skills add dataelement/bisheng
#16

Steel Browser

Similarity 90Trust 100Excellent 100

🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser sandbox that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure.

7.2K starsJun 9, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add steel-dev/steel-browser

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