Alternatives

deep-research alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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deep-research

Exa-powered deep research producing an evidence-backed findings.md report. Load for research tasks, architectural investigations, and vendor, library, or technology comparisons.

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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 97Trust 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 96Trust 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 96Trust 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 96Trust 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 94Trust 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 94Trust 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

Earnings Calendar

Similarity 71Trust 82Excellent 100

Build an upcoming US earnings calendar with dates, timing, consensus estimates, and market-impact context.

2.6K starsAug 10, 2026 pushFinanceClaude CodeCodex
$ npx -y skills add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills --skill earnings-calendar
#9

Taste Skill: Anti-Slop Frontend

Similarity 69Trust 92Excellent 100

Design and implementation guidance for distinctive landing pages, portfolios, product demos, and purposeful redesigns.

79K starsAug 22, 2026 pushdesign-creativeCodexClaude Code
$ npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skill --skill design-taste-frontend
#10

OpenMontage

Similarity 69Trust 92Excellent 100

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 pipelines, 52 tools, 500+ agent skills. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

48K starsAug 14, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add calesthio/OpenMontage
#11

Vercel React Best Practices

Similarity 69Trust 91Excellent 100

React and Next.js performance guidance for writing, reviewing, and refactoring production UI code.

30K starsAug 23, 2026 pushcoding-agentsCodexClaude Code
$ npx skills add vercel-labs/agent-skills --skill vercel-react-best-practices
#12

Ui Ux Pro Max Skill

Similarity 69Trust 90Excellent 100

An AI agent skill that provides design intelligence and UI/UX guidelines for building professional interfaces across multiple platforms.

107K starsJul 14, 2026 pushdevelopmentPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add nextlevelbuilder/ui-ux-pro-max-skill
#13

Taste Skill

Similarity 69Trust 90Excellent 100

A portable AI agent skill that enhances AI-generated user interfaces with better layout, typography, motion, and spacing to avoid generic outputs.

65K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add Leonxlnx/taste-skill
#14

Daily Stock Analysis

Similarity 69Trust 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
#15

Code Review

Similarity 69Trust 89Excellent 100

Review a branch or diff against repository standards and the originating spec in two independent analysis passes.

169K starsJul 13, 2026 pushcoding-agentsClaude CodeCodex
$ npx skills add mattpocock/skills --skill code-review
#16

Qlib

Similarity 69Trust 89Excellent 100

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

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