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Commonplace alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Commonplace

A framework for agent-operated knowledge wikis with typed, linked, review-gated markdown, installable as Python commands.

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#1

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
#2

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
#3

Academic Research Skills

Similarity 95Trust 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
#4

GPT Researcher

Similarity 94Trust 85Excellent 100

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

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

Local Deep Research

Similarity 92Trust 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
#6

ChatPaper

Similarity 92Trust 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
#7

Deep Research

Similarity 88Trust 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

Seafile

Similarity 83Trust 86Excellent 98

Beyond file syncing and sharing, a new way to organize your files with extensible file properties and flexible views

15K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdocument-processingCMarkdown
$ npx skills add haiwen/seafile
#9

Scrapegraph AI

Similarity 82Trust 88Excellent 100

Python scraper based on AI

27K starsJun 15, 2026 pushweb-automationPythonWeb Automation
$ npx skills add ScrapeGraphAI/Scrapegraph-ai
#10

Obsidian Wiki

Similarity 79Trust 89Excellent 100

Framework for AI agents to build and maintain a digital brain through Obsidian wiki using Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern

3.2K starsAug 17, 2026 pushagent-skillsPythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki
#11

Ponytail

Similarity 77Trust 90Excellent 100

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

86K starsJul 15, 2026 pushagent-skillsJavaScriptAI Agents
$ npx skills add DietrichGebert/ponytail
#12

Caveman

Similarity 77Trust 88Excellent 100

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

97K starsAug 11, 2026 pushdevelopmentJavaScriptClaude Code
$ npx skills add JuliusBrussee/caveman
#13

Wiki

Similarity 76Trust 88Excellent 100

Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

28K starsJun 14, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add requarks/wiki
#14

Quarkdown

Similarity 76Trust 89Excellent 100

🪐 Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books, and knowledge bases.

16K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdocument-processingKotlinPDF
$ npx skills add iamgio/quarkdown
#15

Md

Similarity 75Trust 90Excellent 100

✍ WeChat Markdown Editor | 一款高度简洁的微信 Markdown 编辑器:支持 Markdown 语法、自定义主题样式、内容管理、多图床、AI 助手等特性

13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushdocument-processingVueMarkdown
$ npx skills add doocs/md
#16

Scientific Agent Skills

Similarity 75Trust 91Excellent 100

Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 160,000+ scientists worldwide. 140 ready-to-use skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry, medicine, and drug discovery. Compatible with Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Antigravity, and the open Agent Skills standard.

33K starsAug 13, 2026 pushdata-analysisPythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

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