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Ref Downloader alternatives for AI agents.

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Ref Downloader

Batch-download reference PDFs from a DOI or paper PDF using Crossref and your institutional Edge session.

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#1

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 133Trust 90Excellent 100

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

36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#2

Local Deep Research

Similarity 107Trust 92Excellent 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.

8.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#3

GPT Researcher

Similarity 102Trust 86Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#4

Deep Research

Similarity 96Trust 92Excellent 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 96Trust 93Excellent 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.

49K starsJul 4, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#6

Claude Skills

Similarity 89Trust 91Excellent 100

66 Specialized Skills for Full-Stack Developers. Transform Claude Code into your expert pair programmer.

9.9K starsMay 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills
#7

Claude Seo

Similarity 89Trust 92Excellent 100

Universal SEO skill for Claude Code. 25 sub-skills + 18 sub-agents covering technical SEO, E-E-A-T, schema, GEO/AEO, backlinks, local SEO, maps intelligence, semantic clustering, e-commerce SEO, international SEO, Google APIs, and PDF/Excel reporting. Optional DataForSEO, Firecrawl, and Banana extensions.

8.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-seo
#8

Geo Seo Claude

Similarity 89Trust 90Excellent 100

GEO-first SEO skill for Claude Code. Comprehensive AI search optimization for any website — citability scoring, AI crawler analysis, brand authority, schema markup, platform-specific optimization, and PDF reports. If you want learn how to sell this to real businesses, check out the skool community

8.1K starsMay 27, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude
#9

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 84Trust 94Excellent 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
#10

Browser Use

Similarity 83Trust 91Excellent 100

🌐 Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease.

99K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add browser-use/browser-use
#11

Learn Claude Code

Similarity 83Trust 91Excellent 100

Bash is all you need - A nano claude code–like 「agent harness」, built from 0 to 1

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
#12

Awesome Claude Code

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

A curated list of awesome skills, hooks, slash-commands, agent orchestrators, applications, and plugins for Claude Code by Anthropic

48K starsJul 4, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code
#13

Agentskills

Similarity 83Trust 92Excellent 100

Specification and documentation for Agent Skills

22K starsJul 1, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add agentskills/agentskills
#14

Skills

Similarity 83Trust 88Excellent 100

Public repository for Agent Skills

158K starsJul 1, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add anthropics/skills
#15

Planning With Files

Similarity 83Trust 91Excellent 100

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.

23K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#16

Claude Skills

Similarity 82Trust 90Excellent 100

337 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 330+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — engineering, marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial & finance, and your daily productivity skills.

20K starsJul 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills

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