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Academic Research Skills Codex alternatives for AI agents.

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Academic Research Skills Codex

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

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#1

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 157Trust 88Excellent 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

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
#3

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
#4

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
#5

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
#6

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 75Trust 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
#7

Hermes Agent

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

213K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#8

Qlib

Similarity 75Trust 89Excellent 100

Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and RL, and is now equipped with https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent to automate R&D process.

44K starsApr 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add microsoft/qlib
#9

Khazix Skills

Similarity 75Trust 93Excellent 100

A collection of practical, installable AI agent skills for disk cleanup, AI news retrieval, and project management, following the Agent Skills standard.

18K starsJul 24, 2026 pushutilityPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add KKKKhazix/khazix-skills
#10

Graphify

Similarity 75Trust 87Excellent 100

AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph. App code + database schema + infrastructure in one graph.

91K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add safishamsi/graphify
#11

Planning With Files

Similarity 74Trust 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 74Trust 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

OpenBB

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

Financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.

70K starsJun 21, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
#14

Maigret

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret
#15

RD Agent

Similarity 74Trust 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
#16

Instaloader

Similarity 73Trust 89Excellent 100

Download pictures (or videos) along with their captions and other metadata from Instagram.

13K starsApr 15, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add instaloader/instaloader

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