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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
Citationchaser alternatives for AI agents.
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Citationchaser
Perform forward and backward citation chasing as part of an evidence synthesis project
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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
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#6
Tongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent
20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch#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
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#9
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and RL, and is now equipped with https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent to automate R&D process.
44K starsApr 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add microsoft/qlib#10
Google Research
38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add google-research/google-research#11
Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
26K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataMDXRAG
$ npx skills add deepset-ai/haystack#12
Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM
30K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add onyx-dot-app/onyx#13
📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex#14
A comprehensive collection of ready-to-use scientific and research skills for AI agents.
31K starsJul 15, 2026 pushutilityClaude Code
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills#15
Financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
70K starsJun 21, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add OpenBB-finance/OpenBB#16
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigretHow to choose
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