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CognitiveKernel Pro alternatives for AI agents.

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CognitiveKernel Pro

Deep Research Agent CognitiveKernel-Pro from Tencent AI Lab. Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00414

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Deep Research

Similarity 126Trust 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
#2

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 111Trust 88Excellent 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

Local Deep Research

Similarity 109Trust 90Excellent 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.

8.7K starsJul 18, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#4

GPT Researcher

Similarity 108Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

28K starsJun 28, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#5

Last30days Skill

Similarity 103Trust 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
#6

TradingAgents

Similarity 99Trust 88Excellent 100

TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

88K starsJun 22, 2026 pushfinancePythonFinance
$ npx skills add TauricResearch/TradingAgents
#7

Hello Agents

Similarity 98Trust 85Excellent 100

📚 《从零开始构建智能体》——从零开始的智能体原理与实践教程

59K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/hello-agents
#8

RD Agent

Similarity 98Trust 90Excellent 100

Research and development (R&D) is crucial for the enhancement of industrial productivity, especially in the AI era, where the core aspects of R&D are mainly focused on data and models. We are committed to automating these high-value generic R&D processes through R&D-Agent, which lets AI drive data-driven AI. 🔗https://aka.ms/RD-Agent-Tech-Report

13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/RD-Agent
#9

Agent Lightning

Similarity 97Trust 87Excellent 100

The absolute trainer to light up AI agents.

17K starsApr 29, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMLOps
$ npx skills add microsoft/agent-lightning
#10

UFO

Similarity 96Trust 87Excellent 100

UFO³: Weaving the Digital Agent Galaxy

9.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/UFO
#11

XianyuAutoAgent

Similarity 96Trust 87Excellent 100

智能闲鱼客服机器人系统:专为闲鱼平台打造的AI值守解决方案,实现闲鱼平台7×24小时自动化值守,支持多专家协同决策、智能议价和上下文感知对话。

8.0K starsJun 10, 2026 pushsupport-automationPythonChatbot
$ npx skills add shaxiu/XianyuAutoAgent
#12

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 91Trust 90Excellent 100

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
#13

Graphrag

Similarity 91Trust 88Excellent 100

A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system

34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add microsoft/graphrag
#14

Browser Use

Similarity 91Trust 87Excellent 100

🌐 Make websites accessible for AI agents. Automate tasks online with ease.

99K starsJun 13, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add browser-use/browser-use
#15

Learn Claude Code

Similarity 91Trust 87Excellent 100

Bash is all you need - A nano claude code–like 「agent harness」, built from 0 to 1

68K starsJun 15, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code
#16

SWE Agent

Similarity 90Trust 90Excellent 100

SWE-agent takes a GitHub issue and tries to automatically fix it, using your LM of choice. It can also be employed for offensive cybersecurity or competitive coding challenges. [NeurIPS 2024]

20K starsJun 15, 2026 pushcoding-agentsPythonDeveloper Tools
$ npx skills add SWE-agent/SWE-agent

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