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PaperBot alternatives for AI agents.

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#1

Local Deep Research

Similarity 123Trust 92Excellent 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 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 109Trust 90Excellent 100

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

36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#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 92Excellent 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 96Trust 93Excellent 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.

49K starsJul 4, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#6

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 84Trust 94Excellent 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

Qlib

Similarity 83Trust 92Excellent 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
#8

Edict

Similarity 82Trust 93Excellent 100

🏛️ 三省六部制 · OpenClaw Multi-Agent Orchestration System — 9 specialized AI agents with real-time dashboard, model config, and full audit trails

16K starsJun 4, 2026 pushautomationPythonWorkflow
$ npx skills add cft0808/edict
#9

RD Agent

Similarity 82Trust 93Excellent 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
#10

GenAI Agents

Similarity 77Trust 91Excellent 100

50+ tutorials and implementations for Generative AI Agent techniques, from basic conversational bots to complex multi-agent systems.

23K starsJun 17, 2026 pushagent-frameworksJupyter NotebookAI Agents
$ npx skills add NirDiamant/GenAI_Agents
#11

Transformers

Similarity 76Trust 94Excellent 100

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

162K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add huggingface/transformers
#12

Deer Flow

Similarity 76Trust 94Excellent 100

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

71K starsJun 14, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonMulti-Agent
$ npx skills add bytedance/deer-flow
#13

TradingAgents

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

88K starsJun 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add TauricResearch/TradingAgents
#14

Llama Index

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

LlamaIndex is the leading document agent and OCR platform

50K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add run-llama/llama_index
#15

LightRAG

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#16

Graphrag

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

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

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

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