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FAROS alternatives for AI agents.

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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 115Trust 85Excellent 97

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

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

GPT Researcher

Similarity 108Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

30K starsAug 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#3

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
#4

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
#5

ChatPaper

Similarity 99Trust 84Excellent 91

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
#6

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 97Trust 82Excellent 95

Codex-native Academic Research Skills suite for human-in-the-loop academic research workflows

3.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex
#7

Last30days Skill

Similarity 95Trust 92Excellent 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.

64K starsOct 7, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#8

nature-writing

Similarity 95Trust 80Excellent 100

Draft, restructure, or plan Nature-style manuscript sections and initial-submission materials from author-provided claims, results, figures, notes, or Chinese drafts. Use for abstracts, introductions, related work, methods, Results or experiments, discussions, conclusions, titles, full manuscript arguments, and first-submission packages such as cover letters, title pages, highlights, author contributions, availability or declaration text, and reviewer suggestions. Also use to classify Results evidence, decide what belongs in main text, captions, Methods or source data, or Supplementary Information, compress Results to the shortest sufficient evidence chain, prevent revision accretion, and audit paragraph necessity or claim repetition. Trigger on drafting a paper or section, structuring a manuscript, academic writing, first submission, 投稿材料、首次投稿、投稿信、标题页、亮点、作者贡献、数据可用性声明、推荐审稿人.

39K starsSep 2, 2026 pushresearchClaude Code
$ npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-writing
#9

Deer Flow

Similarity 91Trust 89Excellent 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
#10

mono-color

Similarity 83Trust 81Excellent 100

Generate original one-ink or controlled two-ink editorial images from any theme, sentence, article idea, object, or reference photo. Always use this skill when the user asks for 单色海报、双色印刷、单色调视觉、蓝色/绿色孔版印刷、risograph、网点照片、复古或当代编辑排版、zine poster, monochrome editorial poster, duotone print, or asks to use the mono-color style. It uses an adaptive white, gray, or pale-beige substrate, no more than two printing inks, active negative space, terse human language, and strong serif/grotesk/mono typography without making retro styling the default or copying a source composition, wording, logo, or artwork. Produce both the final generation prompt and the generated raster image unless the user explicitly asks for prompt only.

1.9K starsSep 1, 2026 pushresearchClaude Code
$ npx skills add yanliudesign/mono-color-skill --skill mono-color
#11

Adk Python

Similarity 82Trust 89Excellent 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
#12

RD Agent

Similarity 81Trust 89Excellent 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
#13

OpenMontage

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 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
#14

Scientific Agent Skills

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 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
#15

Unsloth

Similarity 75Trust 89Excellent 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

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 75Trust 89Excellent 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

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