Open source alternatives to academic-researcher
24 open source AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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github-ops
Launchgithub-ops is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It manages a GitHub repository with a focus on community health, CI reliability and the experience of contributors. It covers triaging issues by classify
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opensource-pipeline
Launchopensource-pipeline is an agent skill from the ECC collection by affaan-m, listed on skills.sh. It prepares a private project for safe public release through a three-stage pipeline. The fork stage strips secrets from a copy. The sanitise st
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andrej-karpathy-skills
Launchandrej-karpathy-skills is a single CLAUDE.md file from the multica-ai project that is meant to improve how Claude Code behaves on coding tasks. It is derived from Andrej Karpathy's public observations about LLM coding pitfalls. The file dis
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microsoft/markitdown
Launchmarkitdown-mcp is the MCP server package for MarkItDown, Microsoft's tool for converting many file formats to Markdown for language models. It is a lightweight server that runs over stdio, Streamable HTTP or SSE, and exposes one tool, conve
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od-contribute
Launchod-contribute is an agent skill in the OpenDesign project that provides a guided, one-click contribution flow to the OpenDesign repository, written so that people without a coding background can send a real pull request. It is locked to the
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github-deep-research
Launchgithub-deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that researches a single GitHub repository in several rounds and writes a report in Markdown. It is for requests that need more than a README summary, such as a comprehensive
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About academic-researcher

academic-researcher
Academic research assistant for literature reviews, paper analysis
academic-researcher is an agent skill from the awesome-llm-apps collection by Shubham Saboo, listed on skills.sh. It sets the agent up as an academic research assistant with expertise across disciplines. It applies to conducting literature reviews, summarising research papers, analysing research methodologies, structuring academic arguments, formatting citations in styles such as APA, MLA and Chicago, identifying research gaps, and writing research proposals. A paper analysis framework covers the questions to address when reviewing a paper. The skill is a prompt-style guide for an agent, so the quality of the output depends on the sources the person supplies. A skill is a SKILL.md file of instructions that an AI agent loads when a task calls for it. It is free and open source, and the skills.sh listing shows all three security audits passing.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- shubhamsaboo
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/academic-researcher











