The best academic-research-skills alternatives

agents

wshobson/agents

Multi-harness agentic plugin marketplace for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and Google Antigravity

Choose agents if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you specifically need agent-skills or agentic-ai

Shares claude, claude-code, prompt-engineering with academic-research-skills.

Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

A practical Claude Code guide with clear mental models and copy-paste examples — setup, prompt engineering, slash commands, skills, hooks, subagents, agent teams, and MCP servers. Beginner path to power-user depth. Featured in Awesome Claude Code.

Choose Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-skills or agentic-coding

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caveman

JuliusBrussee/caveman

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

Choose caveman if…

• you would rather work in Go than Python
• you want the more widely starred option (117.1k)
• you specifically need ai or anthropic

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humanizer

blader/humanizer

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Agent skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing from text

Choose humanizer if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you specifically need agent-skills or ai-writing

Shares claude-code, prompt-engineering with academic-research-skills.

ponytail

DietrichGebert/ponytail

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

Choose ponytail if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than Python
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you want the more widely starred option (183.4k)
• you specifically need agent-skills or ai-agents

Shares claude, claude-code, prompt-engineering with academic-research-skills.

agency-agents-zh

jnMetaCode/agency-agents-zh

🎭 277 个即插即用的 AI 专家角色 — 支持 Claude Code/Cursor/Copilot 等 20 种工具，覆盖工程/设计/营销/金融等 20 个部门。含 64 个中国市场原创智能体（小红书/抖音/微信/飞书/钉钉/Qt 上位机/机械设计）。搭配编排器 agency-orchestrator，一句话即可让多位专家按 DAG 自动协作。

Choose agency-agents-zh if…

• you would rather work in Shell than Python
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agency-orchestrator or agent-definitions

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Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep

ARIS ⚔️ (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) — Lightweight Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research: cross-model review loops, idea discovery, and experiment automation. No framework, no lock-in — works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, or any LLM agent.

Choose Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-tools or aris

Shares ai-research, claude, claude-code with academic-research-skills.

loop-engineering

cobusgreyling/loop-engineering

Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.

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• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-ai or ai-agents

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headroom

headroomlabs-ai/headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

Choose headroom if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need agent or ai

Shares claude-code, prompt-engineering with academic-research-skills.

claude-skills

alirezarezvani/claude-skills

380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ 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.

Choose claude-skills if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you specifically need agent-plugins or agent-skills

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AI-Research-SKILLs

Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs

Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.

Choose AI-Research-SKILLs if…

• you would rather work in TeX than Python
• you need a detected license — this one reports MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai or claude-skills

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swarms

kyegomez/swarms

The Enterprise-Grade Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework. Website: https://swarms.ai

Choose swarms if…

• you need a detected license — this one reports Apache License 2.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agentic-workflow

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