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Codex Academic Skills alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Codex Academic Skills

A curated list of research-oriented skills usable in OpenAI Codex, covering writing, literature review, evaluation, and research workflows.

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#1

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 135Trust 82Excellent 95

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
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 133Trust 87Excellent 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

ChatPaper

Similarity 121Trust 84Excellent 91

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
#4

Local Deep Research

Similarity 106Trust 89Excellent 99

~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

nature-writing

Similarity 103Trust 80Excellent 100

Draft, restructure, or plan Nature-style manuscript sections and initial-submission materials from author-provided claims, results, figures, notes, or Chinese drafts. Use for abstracts, introductions, related work, methods, Results or experiments, discussions, conclusions, titles, full manuscript arguments, and first-submission packages such as cover letters, title pages, highlights, author contributions, availability or declaration text, and reviewer suggestions. Also use to classify Results evidence, decide what belongs in main text, captions, Methods or source data, or Supplementary Information, compress Results to the shortest sufficient evidence chain, prevent revision accretion, and audit paragraph necessity or claim repetition. Trigger on drafting a paper or section, structuring a manuscript, academic writing, first submission, 投稿材料、首次投稿、投稿信、标题页、亮点、作者贡献、数据可用性声明、推荐审稿人.

39K starsSep 2, 2026 pushresearchClaude Code
$ npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-writing
#6

GPT Researcher

Similarity 102Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

30K starsAug 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#7

DeepResearch

Similarity 101Trust 85Excellent 97

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

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#8

Last30days Skill

Similarity 95Trust 92Excellent 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.

64K starsOct 7, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#9

Book To Skill

Similarity 91Trust 89Excellent 100

Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.

28K starsSep 1, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add virgiliojr94/book-to-skill
#10

Agentskills

Similarity 90Trust 88Excellent 100

Specification and documentation for Agent Skills

24K starsAug 9, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add agentskills/agentskills
#11

Skills

Similarity 90Trust 84Excellent 100

Public repository for Agent Skills

171K starsAug 21, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add anthropics/skills
#12

SkillOpt

Similarity 89Trust 90Excellent 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
#13

Skills

Similarity 88Trust 89Excellent 100

Trail of Bits Claude Code skills for security research, vulnerability detection, and audit workflows

6.6K starsAug 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add trailofbits/skills
#14

Obsidian Wiki

Similarity 86Trust 88Excellent 98

Framework for AI agents to build and maintain a digital brain through Obsidian wiki using Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern

3.4K starsSep 12, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki
#15

CrewAI

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.

56K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add crewAIInc/crewAI
#16

500 AI Agents Projects

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

The 500 AI Agents Projects is a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries. It showcases practical applications and provides links to open-source projects for implementation, illustrating how AI agents are transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, education, retail, and more.

38K starsJul 27, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add ashishpatel26/500-AI-Agents-Projects

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