Alternatives

Modsearch alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Modsearch

A CLI toolkit that turns search queries into structured web evidence (JSON), designed to be called as an Agent Skill from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and similar runtimes.

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#1

Deep Research

Similarity 94Trust 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
#2

Last30days Skill

Similarity 89Trust 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
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 89Trust 88Excellent 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

GPT Researcher

Similarity 88Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#5

Local Deep Research

Similarity 87Trust 90Excellent 100

~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
#6

Ponytail

Similarity 77Trust 91Excellent 100

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

86K starsJul 15, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail
#7

Career Ops

Similarity 77Trust 88Excellent 100

AI-powered job search system built on Claude Code. 14 skill modes, Go dashboard, PDF generation, batch processing.

60K starsJul 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add santifer/career-ops
#8

Caveman

Similarity 77Trust 87Excellent 100

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

91K starsJul 3, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman
#9

OpenHands

Similarity 76Trust 82Excellent 100

🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

78K starsJun 18, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add OpenHands/OpenHands
#10

Cli

Similarity 75Trust 88Excellent 100

Official Lark/Feishu CLI tool with 200+ commands and 26 AI agent skills, designed for agent-native operation and easy integration with AI runtimes.

16K starsAug 3, 2026 pushproductivityGoClaude Code
$ npx skills add larksuite/cli
#11

Open Design

Similarity 75Trust 91Excellent 100

🎨 Local-first, open-source Claude Design alternative. 🖥️ Native desktop app. ⚡ 259+ Skills · ✨ 142+ Design Systems 🖼️ Web · desktop · mobile prototypes · slides · images · videos · HyperFrames 📦 Sandboxed preview · HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export 🤖 Claude Code / OpenClaw / Codex / Cursor / OpenCode / Qwen / Copilot / Hermes / Kimi & 17+ CLIs.

83K starsJul 31, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add nexu-io/open-design
#12

Cherry Studio

Similarity 75Trust 91Excellent 100

AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs

49K starsAug 4, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio
#13

Firecrawl

Similarity 75Trust 87Excellent 100

The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥

139K starsJun 26, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add firecrawl/firecrawl
#14

Vane

Similarity 75Trust 87Excellent 100

Vane is an AI-powered answering engine.

35K starsApr 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add ItzCrazyKns/Vane
#15

Langfuse

Similarity 74Trust 87Excellent 100

🪢 Open source AI engineering platform: LLM evals, observability, metrics, prompt management, playground, datasets. Integrates with OpenTelemetry, LangChain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and more. 🍊YC W23

29K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentTypeScriptLLMOps
$ npx skills add langfuse/langfuse
#16

Promptfoo

Similarity 74Trust 89Excellent 100

Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming/pentesting/vulnerability scanning for AI. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration. Used by OpenAI and Anthropic.

22K starsJun 15, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add promptfoo/promptfoo

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