Alternatives

Paper Pilot alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Paper Pilot

Research-paper workflow tool for literature triage and structured reading

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#1

Deep Research

Similarity 119Trust 96Excellent 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

Zotero Arxiv Workflow

Similarity 112Trust 82Strong 83

Helper for managing arXiv papers in Zotero

359 starsJun 15, 2026 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch
$ npx skills add AllanChain/zotero-arxiv-workflow
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 112Trust 94Excellent 100

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

31K starsJun 13, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#4

ChatPaper

Similarity 110Trust 91Excellent 100

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
#5

Open Deep Research

Similarity 110Trust 84Strong 73

An open source deep research clone. AI Agent that reasons large amounts of web data extracted with Firecrawl

6.3K starsMay 7, 2025 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch Agent
$ npx skills add nickscamara/open-deep-research
#6

Arxiv Latex Cleaner

Similarity 109Trust 95Excellent 100

arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv

6.9K starsMar 27, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
#7

Academic Research Skills Codex

Similarity 108Trust 91Excellent 100

Codex-native Academic Research Skills suite for human-in-the-loop academic research workflows

3.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codex
#8

Daily ArXiv AI Enhanced

Similarity 107Trust 90Excellent 100

Automatically crawl arXiv papers daily and summarize them using AI. Illustrating them using GitHub Pages.

2.8K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchJavaScriptResearch
$ npx skills add dw-dengwei/daily-arXiv-ai-enhanced
#9

Onefilellm

Similarity 107Trust 93Excellent 100

Specify a github or local repo, github pull request, arXiv or Sci-Hub paper, Youtube transcript or documentation URL on the web and scrape into a text file and clipboard for easier LLM ingestion

2.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add jimmc414/onefilellm
#10

Deep Research Web Ui

Similarity 107Trust 91Excellent 100

(Supports DeepSeek R1) An AI-powered research assistant that performs iterative, deep research on any topic by combining search engines, web scraping, and large language models.

2.2K starsJun 4, 2026 pushresearchTypeScriptResearch Agent
$ npx skills add AnotiaWang/deep-research-web-ui
#11

Arxiv.Py

Similarity 106Trust 90Excellent 100

Python wrapper for the arXiv API

1.5K starsMay 22, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add lukasschwab/arxiv.py
#12

Learning Deep Learning

Similarity 105Trust 89Excellent 97

Paper reading notes on Deep Learning and Machine Learning

1.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushresearchJupyter NotebookResearch
$ npx skills add patrick-llgc/Learning-Deep-Learning
#13

Local Deep Research

Similarity 102Trust 96Excellent 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.

8.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add LearningCircuit/local-deep-research
#14

DeepResearchAgent

Similarity 102Trust 93Excellent 100

DeepResearchAgent is a hierarchical multi-agent system designed not only for deep research tasks but also for general-purpose task solving. The framework leverages a top-level planning agent to coordinate multiple specialized lower-level agents, enabling automated task decomposition and efficient execution across diverse and complex domains.

3.5K starsMay 4, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add SkyworkAI/DeepResearchAgent
#15

Ar5iv

Similarity 101Trust 85Excellent 87

A web service offering HTML5 articles from arXiv.org as converted with latexml

858 starsJun 6, 2026 pushresearchCSSResearch
$ npx skills add dginev/ar5iv
#16

Daily Paper Reader

Similarity 101Trust 88Excellent 86

开源的每日 arXiv / OpenReview 论文推荐与 AI 阅读平台,支持 GitHub Actions 自动更新、GitHub Pages 部署与论文问答。

711 starsMay 31, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add ziwenhahaha/daily-paper-reader

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