Alternatives

Papis alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Papis

Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.

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#1

Local Deep Research

Similarity 117Trust 90Excellent 100

~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
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 103Trust 88Excellent 100

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

38K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#3

GPT Researcher

Similarity 96Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

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

Deep Research

Similarity 96Trust 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
#5

Last30days Skill

Similarity 89Trust 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
#6

Maigret

Similarity 76Trust 85Excellent 100

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret
#7

Yazi

Similarity 76Trust 84Excellent 100

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

40K starsJun 20, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add sxyazi/yazi
#8

Rtk

Similarity 76Trust 83Excellent 100

CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies

64K starsJun 19, 2026 pushcoding-agentsRustDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add rtk-ai/rtk
#9

Nnn

Similarity 76Trust 85Excellent 100

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

22K starsJun 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsCDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add jarun/nnn
#10

Goaccess

Similarity 75Trust 85Excellent 100

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

21K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdata-analysisCData Analysis
$ npx skills add allinurl/goaccess
#11

Ast Grep

Similarity 75Trust 86Excellent 100

⚡A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting. Written in Rust

15K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep
#12

Npkill

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

List any node_modules 📦 dir in your system and how heavy they are. You can then select which ones you want to erase to free up space 🧹

9.3K starsMay 28, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add voidcosmos/npkill
#13

Bbot

Similarity 74Trust 84Excellent 100

The recursive internet scanner for hackers. 🧡

9.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add blacklanternsecurity/bbot
#14

Nb

Similarity 74Trust 85Excellent 100

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

8.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushproductivity-automationShellProductivity
$ npx skills add xwmx/nb
#15

Jrnl

Similarity 73Trust 84Excellent 100

Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.

7.3K starsMay 28, 2026 pushproductivity-automationPythonProductivity
$ npx skills add jrnl-org/jrnl
#16

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 69Trust 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

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