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multi-source-search alternatives for AI agents.

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multi-source-search

Portable multi-source research with cross-source validation and an offline evidence ledger. Use for fact-checking, comprehensive research, or any question requiring multiple independent perspectives; work with the host agent's search tools and optionally add SandBase Tavily, Exa, Scholar, and Cloudsway coverage.

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#1

Last30days Skill

Similarity 97Trust 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
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 89Trust 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
#3

GPT Researcher

Similarity 88Trust 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 88Trust 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

DeepResearch

Similarity 88Trust 87Excellent 100

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

20K starsFeb 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add Alibaba-NLP/DeepResearch
#6

Local Deep Research

Similarity 86Trust 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
#7

ChatPaper

Similarity 86Trust 85Excellent 95

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
#8

Cherry Studio

Similarity 77Trust 91Excellent 100

AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified access to frontier LLMs

50K starsAug 13, 2026 pushagent-skillsTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio
#9

Marketingskills

Similarity 77Trust 90Excellent 100

Marketing skills for Claude Code and AI agents. CRO, copywriting, SEO, analytics, and growth engineering.

41K starsJul 16, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add coreyhaines31/marketingskills
#10

Guizang Ppt Skill

Similarity 77Trust 91Excellent 100

AI-agent Skill for generating polished HTML slide decks: editorial magazine and Swiss layouts, image prompts, social covers, and a WebGL/low-power presentation runtime.

25K starsAug 22, 2026 pushagent-skillsHTMLAI Agents
$ npx skills add op7418/guizang-ppt-skill
#11

Khazix Skills

Similarity 77Trust 93Excellent 100

A collection of practical, installable AI agent skills for disk cleanup, AI news retrieval, and project management, following the Agent Skills standard.

20K starsAug 13, 2026 pushutilityPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add KKKKhazix/khazix-skills
#12

Obsidian Skills

Similarity 77Trust 87Excellent 100

Agent skills for Obsidian. Teach your agent to use Obsidian CLI and open formats including Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas.

36K starsJun 8, 2026 pushagent-skillsAI AgentsClaude Code
$ npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills
#13

Planning With Files

Similarity 76Trust 89Excellent 100

Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running agentic tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans that survive context loss and /clear, plus a deterministic completion gate and multi-agent shared state on disk. Manus-style. Works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the SKILL.md standard.

26K starsAug 3, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
#14

Drawio Skill

Similarity 74Trust 89Excellent 100

Generate draw.io diagrams from natural language — 6 presets, vision self-check + up to 5-round refinement, codebase-to-diagram, 10,000+ official shapes & 321 AI/LLM brand logos. Exports PNG/SVG/PDF/JPG.

7.4K starsAug 5, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add Agents365-ai/drawio-skill
#15

Skills

Similarity 74Trust 89Excellent 100

A curated collection of reusable agent skills for designers and builders to generate UI prompts and workflows using AI coding agents.

4.8K starsAug 14, 2026 pushdesign-creativePythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add MengTo/Skills
#16

Dashi Ppt Skill

Similarity 74Trust 88Excellent 100

AI agent skill for generating browser-editable presentations with multiple visual themes and export to HTML, PDF, and PPTX.

5.2K starsJul 30, 2026 pushpresentationJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add chuspeeism/dashi-ppt-skill

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