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Local RAG alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Local RAG

Ingest files for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with open-source Large Language Models (LLMs), all without 3rd parties or sensitive data leaving your network.

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#1

RAG Retrieval

Similarity 152Trust 94Excellent 100

Unify Efficient Fine-tuning of RAG Retrieval, including Embedding, ColBERT, ReRanker.

1.1K starsMay 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add NovaSearch-Team/RAG-Retrieval
#2

Llm Paper Daily

Similarity 151Trust 89Excellent 97

Daily updated LLM papers. 每日更新 LLM 相关的论文,欢迎订阅 👏 喜欢的话动动你的小手 🌟 一个

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add xianshang33/llm-paper-daily
#3

HiRAG

Similarity 147Trust 88Excellent 85

[EMNLP'25 findings] This is the official repo for the paper, HiRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Knowledge.

547 starsJun 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add hhy-huang/HiRAG
#4

Omnibox

Similarity 144Trust 92Excellent 100

Collect, organize, use, and share, all in OmniBox.

1.4K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add import-ai/omnibox
#5

FlagEmbedding

Similarity 142Trust 94Excellent 100

Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs

12K starsApr 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding
#6

Youtu Graphrag

Similarity 140Trust 87Excellent 87

[ICLR 2026] Youtu-GraphRAG: Vertically Unified Agents for Graph Retrieval-Augmented Complex Reasoning

1.2K starsFeb 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add TencentCloudADP/youtu-graphrag
#7

TrustRAG

Similarity 140Trust 85Excellent 87

TrustRAG:The RAG Framework within Reliable input,Trusted output

1.3K starsJan 7, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add gomate-community/TrustRAG
#8

RAG

Similarity 139Trust 88Excellent 85

This NVIDIA RAG blueprint serves as a reference solution for a foundational Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline.

659 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add NVIDIA-AI-Blueprints/rag
#9

LightRAG

Similarity 136Trust 96Excellent 100

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

37K starsJun 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#10

WikiChat

Similarity 135Trust 91Excellent 93

WikiChat is an improved RAG. It stops the hallucination of large language models by retrieving data from a corpus.

1.6K starsJan 31, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add stanford-oval/WikiChat
#11

Awesome GraphRAG

Similarity 133Trust 94Excellent 100

Awesome-GraphRAG: A curated list of resources (surveys, papers, benchmarks, and opensource projects) on graph-based retrieval-augmented generation.

2.5K starsJun 2, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeKnowledge GraphClaude Code
$ npx skills add DEEP-PolyU/Awesome-GraphRAG
#12

TheoremExplainAgent

Similarity 133Trust 89Excellent 85

Official Repo for "TheoremExplainAgent: Towards Video-based Multimodal Explanations for LLM Theorem Understanding" [ACL 2025 oral]

1.5K starsJul 27, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add TIGER-AI-Lab/TheoremExplainAgent
#13

Llm Apps Java Spring AI

Similarity 132Trust 86Strong 80

Samples showing how to build Java applications powered by Generative AI and LLMs using Spring AI and Spring Boot.

752 starsApr 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaRAG
$ npx skills add ThomasVitale/llm-apps-java-spring-ai
#14

RAGxplorer

Similarity 131Trust 84Strong 71

Open-source tool to visualise your RAG 🔮

1.2K starsJan 3, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookRAG
$ npx skills add gabrielchua/RAGxplorer
#15

RAG Fusion

Similarity 130Trust 86Strong 81

RAG-Fusion: multi-query generation + Reciprocal Rank Fusion for better retrieval-augmented generation. Includes evaluation harness with NFCorpus/BEIR.

941 starsApr 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add Raudaschl/rag-fusion
#16

LinearRAG

Similarity 130Trust 88Strong 84

[ICLR 2026] LinearRAG: Linear Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation on Large-scale Corpora

507 starsMay 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add DEEP-PolyU/LinearRAG

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