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Startup Skill alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 97Trust 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
#2

GPT Researcher

Similarity 94Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

30K starsAug 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#3

DeepResearch

Similarity 93Trust 85Excellent 97

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

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#4

Last30days Skill

Similarity 89Trust 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
#5

nature-writing

Similarity 87Trust 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

Local Deep Research

Similarity 86Trust 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
#7

ChatPaper

Similarity 85Trust 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
#8

Nanoclaw

Similarity 85Trust 90Excellent 100

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

30K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add nanocoai/nanoclaw
#9

Awesome Agent Skills

Similarity 85Trust 88Excellent 100

A curated collection of 1000+ agent skills from official dev teams and the community, compatible with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more.

36K starsOct 12, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills
#10

Planning With Files

Similarity 84Trust 87Excellent 100

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.

27K starsSep 7, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#11

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 83Trust 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
#12

mono-color

Similarity 83Trust 81Excellent 100

Generate original one-ink or controlled two-ink editorial images from any theme, sentence, article idea, object, or reference photo. Always use this skill when the user asks for 单色海报、双色印刷、单色调视觉、蓝色/绿色孔版印刷、risograph、网点照片、复古或当代编辑排版、zine poster, monochrome editorial poster, duotone print, or asks to use the mono-color style. It uses an adaptive white, gray, or pale-beige substrate, no more than two printing inks, active negative space, terse human language, and strong serif/grotesk/mono typography without making retro styling the default or copying a source composition, wording, logo, or artwork. Produce both the final generation prompt and the generated raster image unless the user explicitly asks for prompt only.

1.9K starsSep 1, 2026 pushresearchClaude Code
$ npx skills add yanliudesign/mono-color-skill --skill mono-color
#13

Ponytail

Similarity 77Trust 90Excellent 100

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

86K starsJul 15, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail
#14

Hermes Agent

Similarity 77Trust 87Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

213K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#15

Understand Anything

Similarity 77Trust 87Excellent 100

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
#16

Oh My Claudecode

Similarity 77Trust 87Excellent 100

Teams-first Multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code

37K starsJun 25, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claudecode

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