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Paper Qa alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Paper Qa

High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations

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#1

Awesome Llm Apps

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

100+ AI Agent & RAG apps you can actually run — clone, customize, ship.

114K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps
#2

Graphrag

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 100

A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system

34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add microsoft/graphrag
#3

Graphiti

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents

28K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add getzep/graphiti
#4

Kotaemon

Similarity 132Trust 88Excellent 100

An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

25K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Cinnamon/kotaemon
#5

Hello Agents

Similarity 132Trust 85Excellent 100

📚 《从零开始构建智能体》——从零开始的智能体原理与实践教程

59K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/hello-agents
#6

ReMe

Similarity 129Trust 87Excellent 100

ReMe: Memory Management Kit for Agents - Remember Me, Refine Me.

3.3K starsAug 7, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add agentscope-ai/ReMe
#7

Khoj

Similarity 125Trust 90Excellent 100

Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

35K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj
#8

Onyx

Similarity 124Trust 87Excellent 100

Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM

30K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add onyx-dot-app/onyx
#9

SurfSense

Similarity 124Trust 90Excellent 100

An open source, privacy focused alternative to NotebookLM for teams with no data limits. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

15K starsJun 27, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add MODSetter/SurfSense
#10

LEANN

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

13K starsJul 3, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add yichuan-w/LEANN
#11

LEANN

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

12K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add StarTrail-org/LEANN
#12

Awesome Opensource AI

Similarity 121Trust 89Excellent 100

Curated list of the best truly open-source AI projects, models, tools, and infrastructure.

4.6K starsAug 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai
#13

All In RAG

Similarity 121Trust 84Excellent 94

🔍大模型应用开发实战一:RAG 技术全栈指南,在线阅读地址:https://datawhalechina.github.io/all-in-rag/

8.5K starsJun 5, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/all-in-rag
#14

Sim

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

Build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Sim is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.

29K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add simstudioai/sim
#15

Haystack

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

26K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataMDXRAG
$ npx skills add deepset-ai/haystack
#16

Opendataloader Pdf

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.

26K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdataJavaRAG
$ npx skills add opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf

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