Self-hosted alternatives to paperzilla
5 self-hosted AI Skills apps to use instead, best rated first.
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claude-to-deerflow
Launchclaude-to-deerflow is an agent skill that lets an assistant send messages and questions to a running DeerFlow instance through its HTTP API. DeerFlow is an AI agent platform built on LangGraph that orchestrates sub-agents for research, code
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open-notebook
Launchopen-notebook is an agent skill for organising research with Open Notebook, a self-hosted alternative to NotebookLM. It arranges sources, notes and AI conversations into research notebooks. Sources can be PDFs, web pages, audio, video and O
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Reactive Resume
LaunchReactive Resume is a free and open-source resume builder for writing resumes and cover letters, checking the work, and tracking job applications. You create a free account, import an existing resume or start from scratch, and see the finish
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self-hosted-funnel-launch
LaunchSelf-hosted funnel launch is an agent skill that takes a funnel from an empty install to published on infrastructure you control, using the Autonnel funnel builder, which is licensed Apache-2.0. The result covers a landing page, checkout, a
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get-convex/convex-backend
LaunchConvex is an open-source reactive database for web app developers. It combines a database, a place to write server functions in pure TypeScript, and client libraries that keep the app's data live, so screens update as the data changes. Beca
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About paperzilla

paperzilla
Reads projects, searches project feeds
paperzilla is an agent skill that lets an agent work with your Paperzilla projects, recommendations and canonical papers through the pz command-line tool. You can ask for the latest recommendations from a project, open a recommendation and get an explanation of why it matters, fetch a canonical paper as markdown and summarise it, see the feed for a project, leave feedback on a recommendation, or export a paper, recommendation or feed as JSON. The skill explains how the agent should use Paperzilla's data for your research. It gives the agent direct access to the Paperzilla data, but it does not impose a workflow or an external delivery system, so you decide how the results are used. Use it when you already keep your reading in Paperzilla and want to talk to an agent about it in plain language. It is part of the k-dense-ai scientific agent skills repository on GitHub, which has about 49,600 stars. The listing shows it as free, and it has about 1,800 installs. Its security audits show passes from Gen Agent Trust Hub and Socket, with a warning from Snyk. Install it with npx skills add https://github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills --skill paperzilla.
- Price
- Free
- Made by
- k-dense-ai
- Category
- AI Skills
- Website
- github.com/k-dense-ai/scientific-agent-skills/paperzilla