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Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize
36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skillsAlternatives
Intrigue alternatives for AI agents.
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Organize literature into ideas, fast.
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~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 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research#3
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#4
Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources
28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher#5
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.
49K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g#6
Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes
37K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add TriliumNext/Trilium#7
:love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.
18K starsJun 15, 2026 pushproductivity-automationJavaScriptEmail
$ npx skills add Foundry376/Mailspring#8
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#9
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
91K starsJun 19, 2026 pushbrowser-automationTypeScriptPlaywright
$ npx skills add microsoft/playwright#10
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
44K starsJun 15, 2026 pushagent-frameworksTypeScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add siyuan-note/siyuan#11
A visual no-code/code-free web crawler/spider易采集：一个可视化浏览器自动化测试/数据采集/网页爬虫软件，可以无代码图形化的设计和执行爬虫任务。别名：ServiceWrapper面向Web应用的智能化服务封装系统。
44K starsMay 22, 2026 pushweb-automationJavaScriptCrawler
$ npx skills add NaiboWang/EasySpider#12
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
57K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingTypeScriptMarkdown
$ npx skills add marktext/marktext#13
Qlib is an AI-oriented Quant investment platform that aims to use AI tech to empower Quant Research, from exploring ideas to implementing productions. Qlib supports diverse ML modeling paradigms, including supervised learning, market dynamics modeling, and RL, and is now equipped with https://github.com/microsoft/RD-Agent to automate R&D process.
44K starsApr 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add microsoft/qlib#14
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
40K starsJun 20, 2026 pushcoding-agentsTypeScriptDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add appsmithorg/appsmith#15
Google Research
38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add google-research/google-research#16
🕸️ Web apps in pure Python 🐍
29K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
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