Research agents

Best AI agent skills for research briefs

Ranked OpenAgentSkill shortlist for agents that gather sources, compare claims, summarize recent changes, and produce concise evidence-backed research briefs.

Builders creating research, competitive intelligence, market monitoring, and analyst-style briefing agents. Ranked from the OpenAgentSkill index using quality, trust, freshness, adoption, and install readiness.

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Search intent

Find AI agent skills for web research, source comparison, recent-event scanning, and evidence-backed briefing workflows.

These pages are generated from real registry records. The list below is not a generic article; every row links to a skill profile with install, trust, audit, and risk fields.

#1

Last30days Skill

30 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

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.

Excellent quality, 44K stars, and a 30 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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44K starsJun 18, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add mvanhorn/last30days-skill -g
#2

Claude Scientific Skills

30 fitTrust 93Excellent 100Audit 93 · Safe to try

A comprehensive collection of ready-to-use scientific and research skills for AI agents.

Excellent quality, 28K stars, and a 30 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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28K starsJun 11, 2026 pushProduction candidateClaude CodeOpenAI Agents
$ npx skills add K-Dense-AI/claude-scientific-skills
#3

Daily Stock Analysis

27 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

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.

Excellent quality, 43K stars, and a 27 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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43K starsJun 14, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonFinance
$ npx skills add ZhuLinsen/daily_stock_analysis
#4

GPT Researcher

26 fitTrust 88Excellent 100Audit 91 · Needs review

Run autonomous deep research over web and local sources

Excellent quality, 27K stars, and a 26 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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27K starsApr 16, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonResearch Agent
$ npx skills add assafelovic/gpt-researcher
#5

StockSharp

26 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

Algorithmic trading and quantitative trading open source platform to develop trading robots (stock markets, forex, crypto, bitcoins, and options).

Excellent quality, 10K stars, and a 26 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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10K starsJun 13, 2026 pushProduction candidateC#Finance
$ npx skills add StockSharp/StockSharp
#6

TradingAgents

25 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

Excellent quality, 86K stars, and a 25 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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86K starsJun 14, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonFinance
$ npx skills add TauricResearch/TradingAgents
#7

Grafana

25 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 95 · Safe to try

The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Excellent quality, 74K stars, and a 25 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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74K starsJun 15, 2026 pushProduction candidateTypeScriptBI
$ npx skills add grafana/grafana
#8

Deer Flow

25 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

Excellent quality, 71K stars, and a 25 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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71K starsJun 14, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonMulti-Agent
$ npx skills add bytedance/deer-flow
#9

BettaFish

24 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

微舆:人人可用的多Agent舆情分析助手,打破信息茧房,还原舆情原貌,预测未来走向,辅助决策!从0实现,不依赖任何框架。

Excellent quality, 41K stars, and a 24 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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41K starsMay 24, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonData Analysis
$ npx skills add 666ghj/BettaFish
#10

Qlib

24 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 94 · Safe to try

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.

Excellent quality, 44K stars, and a 24 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Retrieve market data

44K starsApr 22, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonFinance
$ npx skills add microsoft/qlib
#11

Umami

24 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

Umami is a modern, privacy-focused analytics platform. An open-source alternative to Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Amplitude.

Excellent quality, 37K stars, and a 24 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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37K starsJun 16, 2026 pushProduction candidateTypeScriptAnalytics
$ npx skills add umami-software/umami
#12

Maigret

24 fitTrust 92Excellent 100Audit 94 · Safe to try

🕵️‍♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites

Excellent quality, 33K stars, and a 24 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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33K starsJun 11, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonOSINT
$ npx skills add soxoj/maigret
#13

FinceptTerminal

24 fitTrust 90Excellent 100Audit 92 · Safe to try

FinceptTerminal is a modern finance application offering advanced market analytics, investment research, and economic data tools, designed for interactive exploration and data-driven decision-making in a user-friendly environment.

Excellent quality, 27K stars, and a 24 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Retrieve market data

27K starsJun 13, 2026 pushProduction candidateC++Finance
$ npx skills add Fincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal
#14

DeepTutor

23 fitTrust 95Excellent 100Audit 95 · Safe to try

DeepTutor: Agent-native, Open-sourced Personalized Tutoring. https://deeptutor.info/.

Excellent quality, 25K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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25K starsJun 17, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add HKUDS/DeepTutor
#15

Claude Skills

23 fitTrust 94Excellent 100Audit 94 · Safe to try

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.

Excellent quality, 18K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Inspect source files

18K starsJun 12, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
#16

DocsGPT

23 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 95 · Safe to try

Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

Excellent quality, 18K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Chunk documents

18K starsJun 18, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add arc53/DocsGPT
#17

Questdb

23 fitTrust 94Excellent 100Audit 95 · Safe to try

QuestDB is a high performance, open-source, time-series database

Excellent quality, 17K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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17K starsJun 14, 2026 pushProduction candidateJavaMarket Data
$ npx skills add questdb/questdb
#18

BillionMail

23 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

BillionMail gives you open-source MailServer, NewsLetter, Email Marketing — fully self-hosted, dev-friendly, and free from monthly fees. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/asfXzBUhZr

Excellent quality, 15K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

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15K starsJun 11, 2026 pushProduction candidateGoEmail
$ npx skills add Billionmail/BillionMail
#19

RD Agent

23 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

Research and development (R&D) is crucial for the enhancement of industrial productivity, especially in the AI era, where the core aspects of R&D are mainly focused on data and models. We are committed to automating these high-value generic R&D processes through R&D-Agent, which lets AI drive data-driven AI. 🔗https://aka.ms/RD-Agent-Tech-Report

Excellent quality, 13K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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13K starsJun 15, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/RD-Agent
#20

Manticoresearch

23 fitTrust 94Excellent 100Audit 94 · Safe to try

Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack

Excellent quality, 12K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushProduction candidateC++Search
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
#21

Crucix

23 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 94 · Safe to try

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

Excellent quality, 10K stars, and a 23 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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10K starsMay 20, 2026 pushProduction candidateJavaScriptOSINT
$ npx skills add calesthio/Crucix
#22

Shadowbroker

22 fitTrust 97Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. Hook an AI agent up to have it parse through data and find previously unseen correlations. The knowledge is available to all but rarely aggregated in the open, until now.

Excellent quality, 9.2K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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9.2K starsJun 12, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonOSINT
$ npx skills add BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker
#23

Winmerge

22 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

WinMerge is an Open Source differencing and merging tool for Windows. WinMerge can compare both folders and files, presenting differences in a visual text format that is easy to understand and handle.

Excellent quality, 8.9K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

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8.9K starsJun 16, 2026 pushProduction candidateC++CSV
$ npx skills add WinMerge/winmerge
#24

Claude Seo

22 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

Universal SEO skill for Claude Code. 25 sub-skills + 18 sub-agents covering technical SEO, E-E-A-T, schema, GEO/AEO, backlinks, local SEO, maps intelligence, semantic clustering, e-commerce SEO, international SEO, Google APIs, and PDF/Excel reporting. Optional DataForSEO, Firecrawl, and Banana extensions.

Excellent quality, 8.9K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Chunk documents

8.9K starsJun 13, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add AgriciDaniel/claude-seo
#25

Geo Seo Claude

22 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

GEO-first SEO skill for Claude Code. Comprehensive AI search optimization for any website — citability scoring, AI crawler analysis, brand authority, schema markup, platform-specific optimization, and PDF reports. If you want learn how to sell this to real businesses, check out the skool community

Excellent quality, 8.1K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Chunk documents

8.1K starsMay 27, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonClaude Code
$ npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude
#26

PyPortfolioOpt

22 fitTrust 97Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

Financial portfolio optimisation in python, including classical efficient frontier, Black-Litterman, Hierarchical Risk Parity

Excellent quality, 5.8K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Retrieve market data

5.8K starsJun 8, 2026 pushProduction candidateJupyter NotebookFinance
$ npx skills add PyPortfolio/PyPortfolioOpt
#27

Hermes Agent

22 fitTrust 96Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

The agent that grows with you

Excellent quality, 192K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Inspect source files

192K starsJun 13, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add NousResearch/hermes-agent
#28

Ragflow

22 fitTrust 98Excellent 100Audit 96 · Safe to try

RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

Excellent quality, 83K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Chunk documents

83K starsJun 13, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonAI Agents
$ npx skills add infiniflow/ragflow
#29

Elasticsearch

22 fitTrust 92Excellent 100Audit 93 · Safe to try

Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine

Excellent quality, 77K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Chunk documents

77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushProduction candidateJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch
#30

OpenBB

22 fitTrust 92Excellent 100Audit 93 · Safe to try

Financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.

Excellent quality, 69K stars, and a 22 use-case fit score.

Best suited scenario

Retrieve market data

69K starsJun 19, 2026 pushProduction candidatePythonFinance
$ npx skills add OpenBB-finance/OpenBB

Selection method

How this list is ranked

OpenAgentSkill scores each candidate against the workflow keywords, then balances fit with GitHub stars, quality signals, trust profile, maintenance freshness, and whether there is a clear install path.

How does OpenAgentSkill rank research briefs?

The ranking combines workflow fit, quality score, trust profile, GitHub adoption, maintenance freshness, and whether a clear install path exists.

Should I install the top skill immediately?

No. Treat the list as a shortlist, open the skill detail page, inspect the repository and license, then test the install command in a sandbox workflow.

Can my agent consume this ranking through an API?

Yes. Use /api/skills/search with the related task or /api/agent/rankings?slug=best-research-briefs-skills to fetch ranked skill data.