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[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"
37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAGAlternatives
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📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG
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$ npx skills add dgraph-io/dgraph#8
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
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$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#9
Memory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.
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$ npx skills add memvid/memvid#10
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$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#12
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Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.
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$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee#14
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$ npx skills add safishamsi/graphify#15
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$ npx skills add arc53/DocsGPT#16
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