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Academic Research Agent Skill alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Academic Research Agent Skill

A Claude-compatible academic research agent skill for Master/PhD students covering literature grounding, novelty gates, math formalization, experiment planning, reviewer simulation, and claim verification.

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#1

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 103Trust 87Excellent 100

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

38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#2

Last30days Skill

Similarity 95Trust 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

GPT Researcher

Similarity 94Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

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

DeepResearch

Similarity 94Trust 87Excellent 100

Tongyi Deep Research, the Leading Open-source Deep Research Agent

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#5

Local Deep Research

Similarity 92Trust 89Excellent 99

~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

ChatPaper

Similarity 92Trust 85Excellent 95

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
#7

Deep Research

Similarity 88Trust 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
#8

MiroFish

Similarity 67Trust 92Excellent 100

A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. 简洁通用的群体智能引擎,预测万物

70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish
#9

OpenMontage

Similarity 67Trust 92Excellent 100

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

48K starsAug 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add calesthio/OpenMontage
#10

Scientific Agent Skills

Similarity 67Trust 91Excellent 100

Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 160,000+ scientists worldwide. 140 ready-to-use skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, and the open Agent Skills standard.

33K starsAug 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills
#11

Transformers

Similarity 67Trust 90Excellent 100

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

162K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add huggingface/transformers
#12

Ui Ux Pro Max Skill

Similarity 67Trust 90Excellent 100

An AI agent skill that provides design intelligence and UI/UX guidelines for building professional interfaces across multiple platforms.

107K starsJul 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
#13

Ragflow

Similarity 67Trust 90Excellent 100

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

83K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add infiniflow/ragflow
#14

Deer Flow

Similarity 67Trust 90Excellent 100

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

71K starsJun 14, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonMulti-Agent
$ npx skills add bytedance/deer-flow
#15

Unsloth

Similarity 67Trust 90Excellent 100

Unsloth Studio is a web UI for training and running open models like Gemma 4, Qwen3.6, DeepSeek, gpt-oss locally.

67K starsJun 20, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add unslothai/unsloth
#16

GPT SoVITS

Similarity 67Trust 90Excellent 100

1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)

59K starsJun 20, 2026 pushmedia-automationPythonVoice
$ npx skills add RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS

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