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QUEST alternatives for AI agents.

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QUEST

"QUEST: Training Frontier Deep Research Agents with Fully Synthetic Tasks"

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#1

DeepResearch

Similarity 123Trust 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

ChatPaper

Similarity 115Trust 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
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 111Trust 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 108Trust 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

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
#6

Last30days Skill

Similarity 103Trust 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
#7

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
#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

TradingAgents

Similarity 91Trust 87Excellent 100

TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

88K starsJun 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add TauricResearch/TradingAgents
#10

Hello Agents

Similarity 90Trust 84Excellent 100

📚 《从零开始构建智能体》——从零开始的智能体原理与实践教程

59K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/hello-agents
#11

RD Agent

Similarity 89Trust 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
#12

Hermes Webui

Similarity 89Trust 87Excellent 100

Hermes WebUI: The best way to use Hermes Agent from the web or from your phone!

15K starsJun 23, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add nesquena/hermes-webui
#13

UFO

Similarity 88Trust 86Excellent 99

UFO³: Weaving the Digital Agent Galaxy

9.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/UFO
#14

ReMe

Similarity 86Trust 86Excellent 98

ReMe: Memory Management Kit for Agents - Remember Me, Refine Me.

3.3K starsAug 7, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add agentscope-ai/ReMe
#15

CrewAI

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.

56K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add crewAIInc/crewAI
#16

500 AI Agents Projects

Similarity 83Trust 90Excellent 100

The 500 AI Agents Projects is a curated collection of AI agent use cases across various industries. It showcases practical applications and provides links to open-source projects for implementation, illustrating how AI agents are transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, education, retail, and more.

38K starsJul 27, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add ashishpatel26/500-AI-Agents-Projects

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