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[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAGAlternatives
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Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.
16K starsMay 27, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add memvid/memvid#3
Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
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$ npx skills add TriliumNext/Trilium#4
Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience
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$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm#5
A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV
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$ npx skills add logseq/logseq#6
📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex#7
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#8
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
22K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#9
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#10
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#11
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#12
🌌 A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.
10K starsJun 30, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama#13
A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. 简洁通用的群体智能引擎，预测万物
70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish#14
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#15
Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
30K starsAug 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee#16
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI
112K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
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