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Local Deep Research alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Local Deep Research

~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.

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#1

ChatPaper

Similarity 126Trust 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
#2

Arxiv Latex Cleaner

Similarity 124Trust 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
#3

Zotero Arxiv Daily

Similarity 124Trust 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
#4

Daily ArXiv AI Enhanced

Similarity 116Trust 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
#5

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 111Trust 100Excellent 100

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

31K starsJun 12, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#6

MiroThinker

Similarity 110Trust 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
#7

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 107Trust 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
#8

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
#9

Onefilellm

Similarity 80Trust 100Excellent 100

Specify a github or local repo, github pull request, arXiv or Sci-Hub paper, Youtube transcript or documentation URL on the web and scrape into a text file and clipboard for easier LLM ingestion

2.0K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jimmc414/onefilellm
#10

Hermes Agent

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

191K starsJun 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#11

Langchain

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 100

The agent engineering platform.

139K starsJun 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/langchain
#12

Deer Flow

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 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 12, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add bytedance/deer-flow
#13

OpenBB

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 100

Financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.

69K starsJun 10, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add OpenBB-finance/OpenBB
#14

Awesome Claude Code

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 100

A curated list of awesome skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins for Claude Code by Anthropic

46K starsApr 27, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
#15

Qlib

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 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
#16

Nanobot

Similarity 77Trust 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

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