Alternatives

S3 alternatives for AI agents.

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[EMNLP'25] s3 - ⚡ Efficient & Effective Search Agent Training via RL for RAG (RLVR for Search with Minimal Data)

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#1

LightRAG

Similarity 128Trust 96Excellent 100

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#2

PageIndex

Similarity 128Trust 94Excellent 100

📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

33K starsJun 5, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#3

Llm Paper Daily

Similarity 127Trust 89Excellent 97

Daily updated LLM papers. 每日更新 LLM 相关的论文,欢迎订阅 👏 喜欢的话动动你的小手 🌟 一个

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add xianshang33/llm-paper-daily
#4

Txtai

Similarity 127Trust 97Excellent 100

💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#5

Awesome Deep Research

Similarity 124Trust 84Strong 80

[ACL 2026 KnowFM] Awesome Agentic Deep Research Resources

765 starsMay 2, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRAGClaude Code
$ npx skills add DavidZWZ/Awesome-Deep-Research
#6

Local RAG

Similarity 123Trust 87Excellent 86

Ingest files for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) with open-source Large Language Models (LLMs), all without 3rd parties or sensitive data leaving your network.

746 starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add jonfairbanks/local-rag
#7

HiRAG

Similarity 123Trust 88Excellent 85

[EMNLP'25 findings] This is the official repo for the paper, HiRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hierarchical Knowledge.

547 starsJun 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add hhy-huang/HiRAG
#8

RAG Fusion

Similarity 122Trust 86Strong 81

RAG-Fusion: multi-query generation + Reciprocal Rank Fusion for better retrieval-augmented generation. Includes evaluation harness with NFCorpus/BEIR.

941 starsApr 26, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add Raudaschl/rag-fusion
#9

AnglE

Similarity 121Trust 86Strong 79

Train and Infer Powerful Sentence Embeddings with AnglE | 🔥 SOTA on STS and MTEB Leaderboard

571 starsMar 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add SeanLee97/AnglE
#10

Full Stack AI Agent Template

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

Full-stack AI app generator — FastAPI + Next.js with AI Agents, RAG, streaming, auth, and 20+ integrations out of the box.

1.4K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add vstorm-co/full-stack-ai-agent-template
#11

Knowhere

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

Knowhere extracts, parses, and outputs structured chunks ready for AI Agents and RAG.

1.3K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add Ontos-AI/knowhere
#12

Ragbits

Similarity 120Trust 91Excellent 100

Building blocks for rapid development of GenAI applications

1.6K starsMay 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add deepsense-ai/ragbits
#13

Omnibox

Similarity 120Trust 92Excellent 100

Collect, organize, use, and share, all in OmniBox.

1.4K starsJun 9, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add import-ai/omnibox
#14

RAG Retrieval

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

Unify Efficient Fine-tuning of RAG Retrieval, including Embedding, ColBERT, ReRanker.

1.1K starsMay 24, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add NovaSearch-Team/RAG-Retrieval
#15

JamAIBase

Similarity 120Trust 94Excellent 100

The collaborative spreadsheet for AI. Chain cells into powerful pipelines, experiment with prompts and models, and evaluate LLM responses in real-time. Work together seamlessly to build and iterate on AI applications.

1.1K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add EmbeddedLLM/JamAIBase
#16

Raglite

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 99

🥤 RAGLite is a Python toolkit for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with DuckDB or PostgreSQL

1.2K starsMay 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonRAG
$ npx skills add superlinear-ai/raglite

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