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Academic Research Skills alternatives for AI agents.

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Academic Research Skills

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

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#1

Local Deep Research

Similarity 107Trust 90Excellent 100

~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
#2

GPT Researcher

Similarity 102Trust 86Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#3

Deep Research

Similarity 96Trust 88Excellent 100

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.

19K starsApr 11, 2026 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch Agent
$ npx skills add dzhng/deep-research
#4

Last30days Skill

Similarity 95Trust 91Excellent 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.

54K starsJul 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#5

Learn Claude Code

Similarity 91Trust 87Excellent 100

Bash is all you need - A nano claude code–like 「agent harness」, built from 0 to 1

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
#6

Claude Skills

Similarity 89Trust 89Excellent 100

66 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer.

9.9K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills
#7

Ponytail

Similarity 85Trust 91Excellent 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
#8

Caveman

Similarity 85Trust 88Excellent 100

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

91K starsJul 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman
#9

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 83Trust 92Excellent 100

LLM驱动的 A/H/美股智能分析:多数据源行情 + 实时新闻 + LLM决策仪表盘 + 多渠道推送,零成本定时运行,纯白嫖. LLM-powered stock analysis system for A/H/US markets.

52K starsJun 29, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis
#10

Hermes Agent

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

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

Planning With Files

Similarity 82Trust 89Excellent 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.

26K starsJul 24, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#12

Nanobot

Similarity 82Trust 86Excellent 100

Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.

46K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot
#13

RD Agent

Similarity 82Trust 90Excellent 100

Research and development (R&D) is crucial for the enhancement of industrial productivity, especially in the AI era, where the core aspects of R&D are mainly focused on data and models. We are committed to automating these high-value generic R&D processes through R&D-Agent, which lets AI drive data-driven AI. 🔗https://aka.ms/RD-Agent-Tech-Report

13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/RD-Agent
#14

Claude Seo

Similarity 80Trust 88Excellent 100

Universal SEO skill for Claude Code. 25 sub-skills + 18 sub-agents covering technical SEO, E-E-A-T, schema, GEO/AEO, backlinks, local SEO, maps intelligence, semantic clustering, e-commerce SEO, international SEO, Google APIs, and PDF/Excel reporting. Optional DataForSEO, Firecrawl, and Banana extensions.

8.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-seo
#15

Fireworks Tech Graph

Similarity 80Trust 89Excellent 100

Generate production-quality SVG+PNG technical diagrams from natural language. 7 styles, UML support, and AI/Agent workflow patterns.

7.7K starsJun 3, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add yizhiyanhua-ai/fireworks-tech-graph
#16

Geo Seo Claude

Similarity 80Trust 88Excellent 100

GEO-first SEO skill for Claude Code. Comprehensive AI search optimization for any website — citability scoring, AI crawler analysis, brand authority, schema markup, platform-specific optimization, and PDF reports. If you want learn how to sell this to real businesses, check out the skool community

8.1K starsMay 27, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude

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