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 116Trust 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
#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 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

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
#5

GPT Researcher

Similarity 96Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

30K starsAug 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#6

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
#7

DeepResearch

Similarity 95Trust 85Excellent 97

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

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#8

Last30days Skill

Similarity 89Trust 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
#9

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
#10

Jira Cli

Similarity 81Trust 84Excellent 100

🔥 Feature-rich interactive Jira command line.

5.9K starsAug 19, 2026 pushproductivity-automationGoProductivity
$ npx skills add ankitpokhrel/jira-cli
#11

Maigret

Similarity 76Trust 83Excellent 100

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

33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret
#12

Rtk

Similarity 76Trust 82Excellent 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
#13

Yazi

Similarity 76Trust 82Excellent 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
#14

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 starsAug 5, 2026 pushdata-analysisCData Analysis
$ npx skills add allinurl/goaccess
#15

Nnn

Similarity 75Trust 83Excellent 100

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

22K starsJun 24, 2026 pushcoding-agentsCDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add jarun/nnn
#16

Ast Grep

Similarity 75Trust 86Excellent 100

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

16K starsSep 20, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep

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