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Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skillsAlternatives
Local Deep Research alternatives for AI agents.
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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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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#3
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#4
Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#5
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#6
The agent that grows with you
213K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent#7
The agent engineering platform.
141K starsJul 1, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/langchain#8
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#9
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#10
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#11
A curated list of awesome skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins for Claude Code by Anthropic
50K starsJul 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code#12
微舆：人人可用的多Agent舆情分析助手，打破信息茧房，还原舆情原貌，预测未来走向，辅助决策！从0实现，不依赖任何框架。
41K starsMay 24, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add 666ghj/BettaFish#13
Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.
46K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot#14
Financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
70K starsJun 21, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add OpenBB-finance/OpenBB#15
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret#16
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-AgentHow to choose
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Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep Local Deep Research if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.
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