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Papis alternatives for AI agents.

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Papis

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

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#1

ChatPaper

Similarity 120Trust 100Excellent 100

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
#2

Local Deep Research

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 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.

8.5K starsJun 11, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#3

Arxiv Latex Cleaner

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv

6.9K starsMar 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
#4

Zotero Arxiv Daily

Similarity 118Trust 100Excellent 100

Recommend new arxiv papers of your interest daily according to your Zotero libarary.

5.5K starsJun 1, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add TideDra/zotero-arxiv-daily
#5

Daily ArXiv AI Enhanced

Similarity 116Trust 100Excellent 100

Automatically crawl arXiv papers daily and summarize them using AI. Illustrating them using GitHub Pages.

2.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushresearchJavaScriptResearch
$ npx skills add dw-dengwei/daily-arXiv-ai-enhanced
#6

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 105Trust 100Excellent 100

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

31K starsJun 12, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#7

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 101Trust 100Excellent 100

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

3.7K starsJun 11, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex
#8

GPT Researcher

Similarity 98Trust 100Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

27K starsApr 16, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#9

MiroThinker

Similarity 96Trust 100Excellent 100

MiroThinker is a deep research agent optimized for complex research and prediction tasks. Our latest models, MiroThinker-1.7, achieves 74.0 and 75.3 on the BrowseComp and BrowseComp Zh, respectively.

8.3K starsApr 25, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add MiroMindAI/MiroThinker
#10

Jabref

Similarity 83Trust 100Excellent 100

Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases

4.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaOCR
$ npx skills add JabRef/jabref
#11

Command Code

Similarity 82Trust 100Excellent 96

Command Code AI

3.4K starsMay 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add CommandCodeAI/command-code
#12

Maigret

Similarity 79Trust 100Excellent 100

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

33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret
#13

Goaccess

Similarity 78Trust 100Excellent 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
#14

Ast Grep

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentRustStatic Analysis
$ npx skills add ast-grep/ast-grep
#15

Bbot

Similarity 77Trust 100Excellent 100

The recursive internet scanner for hackers. 🧡

9.9K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add blacklanternsecurity/bbot
#16

Onefilellm

Similarity 74Trust 100Excellent 100

Specify a github or local repo, github pull request, arXiv or Sci-Hub paper, Youtube transcript or documentation URL on the web and scrape into a text file and clipboard for easier LLM ingestion

2.0K starsJun 8, 2026 pushdocument-processingPythonPDF
$ npx skills add jimmc414/onefilellm

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