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AI System Design Guide alternatives for AI agents.

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AI System Design Guide

AI system design guide for engineers building production AI systems and evals.

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Sim

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Build AI Agents, Visually

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TypeScript AI AI Function Calling Framework enhanced by compiler skills.

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Sidekick

Similarity 124Trust 96Excellent 100

A native macOS app that allows users to chat with a local LLM that can respond with information from files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software. Powered by llama.cpp.

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Technical resources for AI developers to build applications, agents, and systems using Oracle AI Database and OCI services

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Build, run and scale AI agents like API and microservices - observable,auditable and identity-aware from day one.

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RAGHub

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A community-driven collection of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) frameworks, projects, and resources. Contribute and explore the evolving RAG ecosystem.

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Trieve

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All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API

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$ npx skills add devflowinc/trieve
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Khoj

Similarity 120Trust 96Excellent 100

Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

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$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj
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Haystack

Similarity 120Trust 98Excellent 100

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.

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Onyx

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$ npx skills add onyx-dot-app/onyx
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SurfSense

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

An open source, privacy focused alternative to NotebookLM for teams with no data limits. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

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