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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
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Light — 全流程科研技能包：28 个技能覆盖文献调研到投稿全流程，配套 9 个可核查知识库。适配主流 AI 编程客户端。
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~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.
8.7K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#3
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#4
Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#5
Tongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent
20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch#6
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#7
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#8
AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs
50K starsAug 13, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio#9
A collection of practical, installable AI agent skills for disk cleanup, AI news retrieval, and project management, following the Agent Skills standard.
20K starsAug 13, 2026 pushutilityPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add KKKKhazix/khazix-skills#10
The agent that grows with you
213K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent#11
Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running agentic tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans that survive context loss and /clear, plus a deterministic completion gate and multi-agent shared state on disk. Manus-style. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the SKILL.md standard.
26K starsAug 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files#12
Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.
46K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot#13
GPT-Image-2 PPT Generator Skill for Creating Image-Based PowerPoint Presentations in Codex and Other Skill-Compatible Agents
4.0K starsJul 23, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill#14
Marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering.
41K starsJul 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills#15
AI-agent Skill for generating polished HTML slide decks: editorial magazine and Swiss layouts, image prompts, social covers, and a WebGL/low-power presentation runtime.
25K starsAug 23, 2026 pushagent-skillsHTMLAI Agents
$ npx skills add op7418/guizang-ppt-skill#16
Free, local, open-source 24/7 Cowork app for OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI and 20+ more CLI | Customize your assistants | Star if you like it!
30K starsJul 14, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
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