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Lotus alternatives for AI agents.

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Optimized LLM-Powered Data Processing: up to 1000x speedups with fast, accurate query processing, that's as simple as writing Pandas code

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#1

Memvid

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 100

Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.

16K starsMay 27, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add memvid/memvid
#2

FlagEmbedding

Similarity 125Trust 86Excellent 100

Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs

12K starsApr 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonEmbeddings
$ npx skills add FlagOpen/FlagEmbedding
#3

DocsGPT

Similarity 124Trust 89Excellent 100

Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

18K starsJul 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add arc53/DocsGPT
#4

Txtai

Similarity 123Trust 90Excellent 100

πŸ’‘ All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#5

Generative AI For Beginners

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

112K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
#6

LightRAG

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#7

Typesense

Similarity 119Trust 90Excellent 100

Open Source alternative to Algolia + Pinecone and an Easier-to-Use alternative to ElasticSearch ⚑ πŸ” ✨ Fast, typo tolerant, in-memory fuzzy Search Engine for building delightful search experiences

26K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Semantic Search
$ npx skills add typesense/typesense
#8

PageIndex

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

πŸ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#9

Meilisearch

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch
#10

RAG Techniques

Similarity 118Trust 86Excellent 100

This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.

28K starsJun 17, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add NirDiamant/RAG_Techniques
#11

Weaviate

Similarity 118Trust 90Excellent 100

Weaviate is an open-source vector database that stores both objects and vectors, allowing for the combination of vector search with structured filtering with the fault tolerance and scalability of a cloud-native database​.

17K starsJul 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoSemantic Search
$ npx skills add weaviate/weaviate
#12

WeKnora

Similarity 117Trust 87Excellent 100

Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, and a self-maintaining Wiki.

16K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoSemantic Search
$ npx skills add Tencent/WeKnora
#13

Searx

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx
#14

Lancedb

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Developer-friendly OSS embedded retrieval library for multimodal AI. Search More; Manage Less.

11K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeHTMLSemantic Search
$ npx skills add lancedb/lancedb
#15

Cocoindex

Similarity 117Trust 88Excellent 100

Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add cocoindex-io/cocoindex
#16

Anything Llm

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 100

Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience

63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

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