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Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
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Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
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$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#3
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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$ npx skills add dzhng/deep-research#4
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.
54K starsJul 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g#5
~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#6
A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging apps,, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK
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$ npx skills add nanocoai/nanoclaw#7
A curated collection of 1000+ agent skills from official dev teams and the community, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more.
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$ npx skills add VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills#8
Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running agentic tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans that survive context loss and /clear, plus a deterministic completion gate and multi-agent shared state on disk. Manus-style. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the SKILL.md standard.
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$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files#9
66 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer.
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$ npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills#10
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
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$ npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail#11
The agent that grows with you
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$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent#12
Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.
75K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything#13
Teams-first Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code
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$ npx skills add Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode#14
omo/lazycodex: The coding agent for tokenmaxxers;the one and only agent harness for complex codebases. For your Codex, for your OpenCode
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$ npx skills add code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent#15
Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.
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$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot#16
Unlimited FREE AI coding. Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, Copilot, Antigravity to FREE Claude/GPT/Gemini via 40+ providers. Auto-fallback, RTK -40% tokens, never hit limits.
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