Alternatives

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 122Trust 85Excellent 95

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

DeepResearch

Similarity 110Trust 87Excellent 100

Tongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 109Trust 87Excellent 100

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

38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#4

Deep Research

Similarity 104Trust 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 103Trust 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

GPT Researcher

Similarity 102Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#7

Deer Flow

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 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
#8

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 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
#9

Searxng

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 100

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

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
#11

Hermes Agent

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

213K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#12

Langchain

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

The agent engineering platform.

141K starsJul 1, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add langchain-ai/langchain
#13

BettaFish

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

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。

42K starsJul 21, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add 666ghj/BettaFish
#14

Awesome Claude Code

Similarity 75Trust 87Excellent 100

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
#15

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
#16

Nanobot

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.

46K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot

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