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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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Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 155Trust 100Excellent 100

Codex-native Academic Research Skills suite for human-in-the-loop academic research workflows

3.7K starsJun 11, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex
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ChatPaper

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#3

Arxiv Latex Cleaner

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 100

arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv

6.9K starsMar 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
#4

Zotero Arxiv Daily

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 100

Recommend new arxiv papers of your interest daily according to your Zotero libarary.

5.5K starsJun 1, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add TideDra/zotero-arxiv-daily
#5

Local Deep Research

Similarity 108Trust 100Excellent 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.

8.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#6

GPT Researcher

Similarity 104Trust 100Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

27K starsApr 16, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
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MiroThinker

Similarity 102Trust 100Excellent 100

MiroThinker is a deep research agent optimized for complex research and prediction tasks. Our latest models, MiroThinker-1.7, achieves 74.0 and 75.3 on the BrowseComp and BrowseComp Zh, respectively.

8.3K starsApr 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add MiroMindAI/MiroThinker
#8

Daily ArXiv AI Enhanced

Similarity 100Trust 100Excellent 100

Automatically crawl arXiv papers daily and summarize them using AI. Illustrating them using GitHub Pages.

2.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushresearchJavaScriptResearch
$ npx skills add dw-dengwei/daily-arXiv-ai-enhanced
#9

Papis

Similarity 100Trust 100Excellent 100

Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.

1.7K starsJun 2, 2026 pushresearchHTMLResearch
$ npx skills add papis/papis
#10

Learn Claude Code

Similarity 93Trust 100Excellent 100

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

66K starsJun 7, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
#11

Claude Skills

Similarity 91Trust 100Excellent 100

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

9.8K starsMay 20, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills
#12

Apm

Similarity 88Trust 100Excellent 100

Agent Package Manager

2.8K starsJun 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add microsoft/apm
#13

Obsidian Second Brain

Similarity 88Trust 100Excellent 100

Cross-CLI skill for Obsidian: turn your vault into a living AI-first second brain across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode. 43 commands - now with /obsidian-architect to document your codebase, key-less web research, Google Calendar, and self-rewriting notes.

2.4K starsJun 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain
#14

Hermes Agent

Similarity 85Trust 100Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

191K starsJun 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#15

Nanobot

Similarity 85Trust 100Excellent 100

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

44K starsJun 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot
#16

Last30days Skill

Similarity 85Trust 100Excellent 100

AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, Polymarket, and the web - then synthesizes a grounded summary

40K starsJun 10, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill

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