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AI Research Skills alternatives for AI agents.

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

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AI Research Skills

Universal SKILL.md catalog for research workflows: literature review, research design, project memory, manuscript writing, and cross-agent delegation for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, OpenClaw, and generic AI clients.

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#1

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 141Trust 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
#2

Local Deep Research

Similarity 106Trust 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
#3

ChatPaper

Similarity 106Trust 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
#4

GPT Researcher

Similarity 102Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

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

DeepResearch

Similarity 102Trust 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

Planning With Files

Similarity 98Trust 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
#7

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
#8

Last30days Skill

Similarity 95Trust 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
#9

Understand Anything

Similarity 85Trust 87Excellent 100

Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

75K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything
#10

Khazix Skills

Similarity 83Trust 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
#11

Hermes Agent

Similarity 83Trust 88Excellent 100

The agent that grows with you

213K starsJul 11, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#12

Claude Skills

Similarity 82Trust 88Excellent 100

337 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 330+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8 more coding agents — engineering, marketing, product, compliance, C-level advisory, research, business operations, commercial & finance, and your daily productivity skills.

25K starsAug 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
#13

Graphify

Similarity 82Trust 85Excellent 100

AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph. App code + database schema + infrastructure in one graph.

91K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add safishamsi/graphify
#14

Nanobot

Similarity 82Trust 85Excellent 100

Lightweight, open-source AI agent for your tools, chats, and workflows.

46K starsJul 18, 2026 pushagent-frameworksPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/nanobot
#15

Drawio Skill

Similarity 80Trust 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
#16

Codex Ppt Skill

Similarity 79Trust 87Excellent 98

GPT-Image-2 PPT Generator Skill for Creating Image-Based PowerPoint Presentations in Codex and Other Skill-Compatible Agents

4.0K starsJul 23, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add ningzimu/codex-ppt-skill

How to choose

When should you switch?

Use an alternative when it has a clearer install path, higher trust score, fresher maintenance, or better platform fit for your current agent stack. Keep AI Research Skills if it already passes your workflow test and repository review.

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