Open source alternatives to deep-research
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 deep-research

deep-research
Use this skill instead of WebSearch for ANY question requiring web research
deep-research is an agent skill from the DeerFlow project that sets out a method for thorough web research. It is meant to be used instead of a single web search whenever a question needs current, comprehensive information from several sources, such as a request to explain a concept, compare two options or investigate a topic in depth. The skill tells the assistant to load it before it starts any content task, so that the answer is built from several angles, depths and sources rather than the first results. It gives guidance on the kinds of research questions it covers and how to gather and cross-check material before writing. Because it is a method rather than a tool, it works in any agent that can search the web, and it gives the assistant a checklist for when a shallow lookup is not enough. The skill is useful for analysts, students and writers who want a well-sourced answer, and for teams that want their agents to avoid one-query answers on complex questions. Install it with npx skills add https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow --skill deep-research. On skills.sh it passes Gen Agent Trust Hub and Socket, and Snyk shows a warning.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- bytedance
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/bytedance/deer-flow/deep-research











