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LightRAG

Similarity 138Trust 96Excellent 100

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

37K starsJun 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#2

Txtai

Similarity 129Trust 97Excellent 100

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

13K starsJun 11, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#3

Generative AI For Beginners

Similarity 122Trust 96Excellent 100

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

112K starsJun 11, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
#4

Obsidian Smart2Brain

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

An Obsidian plugin to interact with your privacy focused AI-Assistant making your second brain even smarter!

1.1K starsMay 31, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add your-papa/obsidian-Smart2Brain
#5

RAG Retrieval

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

Unify Efficient Fine-tuning of RAG Retrieval, including Embedding, ColBERT, ReRanker.

1.1K starsMay 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add NovaSearch-Team/RAG-Retrieval
#6

Foundation Models Framework Lab

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

A practical lab for building, testing, and evaluating apps with Apple's Foundation Models framework.

1.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeSwiftRAG
$ npx skills add rudrankriyam/Foundation-Models-Framework-Lab
#7

JamAIBase

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

The collaborative spreadsheet for AI. Chain cells into powerful pipelines, experiment with prompts and models, and evaluate LLM responses in real-time. Work together seamlessly to build and iterate on AI applications.

1.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add EmbeddedLLM/JamAIBase
#8

Foundation Models Framework Example

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

Example apps for Foundation Models Framework in iOS 26 and macOS 26

1.1K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeSwiftRAG
$ npx skills add rudrankriyam/Foundation-Models-Framework-Example
#9

AI Novel Writing Assistant

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 98

面向长篇小说创作的 AI Native 开源系统,用 Agent、世界观、写法引擎、RAG 和整本生产工作流,帮助新手从一句灵感走到完整小说。AI-native engine for end-to-end novel creation — from idea to full chapters, with structured planning, worldbuilding, and agent-driven workflows.

1.6K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add ExplosiveCoderflome/AI-Novel-Writing-Assistant
#10

SAG

Similarity 122Trust 92Excellent 100

An out-of-the-box document retrieval workbench built on SAG

1.1K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add Zleap-AI/SAG
#11

RAG Techniques

Similarity 121Trust 94Excellent 100

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

28K starsJun 11, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add NirDiamant/RAG_Techniques
#12

Llm Paper Daily

Similarity 121Trust 89Excellent 97

Daily updated LLM papers. 每日更新 LLM 相关的论文,欢迎订阅 👏 喜欢的话动动你的小手 🌟 一个

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add xianshang33/llm-paper-daily
#13

Aisearch Openai RAG Audio

Similarity 120Trust 84Promising 67

A simple example implementation of the VoiceRAG pattern to power interactive voice generative AI experiences using RAG with Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI's gpt-4o-realtime-preview model.

556 starsNov 19, 2025 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add Azure-Samples/aisearch-openai-rag-audio
#14

EmbedJs

Similarity 120Trust 81Promising 67

A NodeJS RAG framework to easily work with LLMs and embeddings

604 starsNov 17, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add llm-tools/embedJs
#15

Supavec

Similarity 120Trust 91Excellent 92

The open-source alternative to Carbon.ai. Build powerful RAG applications with any data source, at any scale.

1.1K starsDec 28, 2025 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add supavec/supavec
#16

Genkit

Similarity 119Trust 94Excellent 100

Open-source framework for building AI-powered apps in JavaScript, Go, and Python, built and used in production by Google

6.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add genkit-ai/genkit

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