Alternatives

FAROS alternatives for AI agents.

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

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FAROS

A blueprint-driven AutoResearch runtime for orchestrating AI research workflows from idea generation and experiments to paper writing and peer review.

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#1

DeepResearch

Similarity 116Trust 87Excellent 100

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

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#2

Deep Research

Similarity 110Trust 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
#3

GPT Researcher

Similarity 108Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

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

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
#5

Local Deep Research

Similarity 100Trust 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 100Trust 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

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
#8

Deer Flow

Similarity 91Trust 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
#9

Adk Python

Similarity 82Trust 90Excellent 100

An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.

20K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonMulti-Agent
$ npx skills add google/adk-python
#10

RD Agent

Similarity 82Trust 90Excellent 100

Research and development (R&D) is crucial for the enhancement of industrial productivity, especially in the AI era, where the core aspects of R&D are mainly focused on data and models. We are committed to automating these high-value generic R&D processes through R&D-Agent, which lets AI drive data-driven AI. 🔗https://aka.ms/RD-Agent-Tech-Report

13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/RD-Agent
#11

OpenMontage

Similarity 75Trust 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
#12

Scientific Agent Skills

Similarity 75Trust 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
#13

Unsloth

Similarity 75Trust 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
#14

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 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
#15

Khoj

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 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.

35K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj
#16

Qlib

Similarity 75Trust 89Excellent 100

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

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