Alternatives

Papernote alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Papernote

paper note, including personal comments, introduction, code etc

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#1

Local Deep Research

Similarity 117Trust 92Excellent 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
#2

Deep Research

Similarity 104Trust 92Excellent 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
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 103Trust 90Excellent 100

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

36K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonResearch
$ npx skills add Imbad0202/academic-research-skills
#4

GPT Researcher

Similarity 96Trust 86Excellent 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 90Trust 93Excellent 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.

49K starsJul 3, 2026 pushresearchPythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#6

Qlib

Similarity 85Trust 92Excellent 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
#7

Pytorch Lightning

Similarity 77Trust 93Excellent 100

Pretrain, finetune ANY AI model of ANY size on 1 or 10,000+ GPUs with zero code changes.

31K starsJun 10, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning
#8

Google Research

Similarity 77Trust 92Excellent 100

Google Research

38K starsJun 16, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add google-research/google-research
#9

Python Telegram Bot

Similarity 77Trust 92Excellent 100

We have made you a wrapper you can't refuse

29K starsJun 16, 2026 pushsupport-automationPythonChatbot
$ npx skills add python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot
#10

Tesseract.Js

Similarity 77Trust 91Excellent 100

Pure Javascript OCR for more than 100 Languages 📖🎉🖥

38K starsMay 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingJavaScriptOCR
$ npx skills add naptha/tesseract.js
#11

CLIP

Similarity 77Trust 91Excellent 100

CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), Predict the most relevant text snippet given an image

34K starsMar 25, 2026 pushml-automationJupyter NotebookMachine Learning
$ npx skills add openai/CLIP
#12

Kotaemon

Similarity 77Trust 92Excellent 100

An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

25K starsJun 9, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Cinnamon/kotaemon
#13

ChatterBot

Similarity 76Trust 91Excellent 100

ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots

14K starsMar 24, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add gunthercox/ChatterBot
#14

Nndl

Similarity 76Trust 87Excellent 100

邱锡鹏《神经网络与深度学习》(蒲公英书)理论书 v2 与通识版

19K starsJun 1, 2026 pushml-automationMachine LearningClaude Code
$ npx skills add nndl/nndl
#15

Crucix

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

Your personal intelligence agent. Watches the world from multiple data sources and pings you when something changes.

10K starsMay 20, 2026 pushsecurityJavaScriptOSINT
$ npx skills add calesthio/Crucix
#16

Darts

Similarity 75Trust 92Excellent 100

A python library for user-friendly forecasting and anomaly detection on time series.

9.4K starsJun 6, 2026 pushml-automationPythonMachine Learning
$ npx skills add unit8co/darts

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