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Research Agent Skills alternatives
Research Agent Skills by KalarisLabs: 280+ Agent Skills that turn Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and other agents into a research co-scientist across the academic research lifecycle: literature and PRISMA reviews, hypotheses, experimental design, data analysis in biology, chemistry, medicine, physics and ML, paper writing, citation verification and peer review. Here are 5 plugins in our catalog that describe a similar job, with the numbers you'd check before switching.
Why you might look elsewhere
- Need a permissive license? Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow, Zotero Research Tools, PapersFlow are MIT or similar, while Research Agent Skills is No license file.
- Want active development? Stata Research Guard, Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow got a push in the last two weeks.
5 alternatives, side by side
| Plugin | Stars | License | Last push | Packaged as |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow Thermal-fluid mechanical engineering research workflow for literature review, technical writing, data analysis, presentations, proposals, coding, and AI/ML tools. | ★ 26 | MIT | 2026-11-06 | plugin |
| Zotero Research Tools Connects Codex to Zotero Desktop for local-library search, citation export, collection and tag inspection, and research workflow support. | ★ 5 | MIT | 2026-07-01 | plugin |
| PapersFlow Paper discovery, citation verification, graph exploration, and DeepScan analysis. | ★ 4 | MIT | 2026-10-10 | plugin |
| Stata Research Guard Codex plugin for readable Stata research code, with official command help, paper examples and peer-review checks. | ★ 4 | MIT | 2026-11-10 | plugin |
| Hypercore Korean-first agent skills for planning, architecture, design, docs, research, issues, and Git delivery, each with declared triggers, workflows, and validation gates. | ★ 12 | MIT | 2026-11-15 | plugin, skills |
Picked by overlap between each project's own description and Research Agent Skills's, same category first. Ordered by that overlap, not by stars or payment.
Head-to-head
Research Agent Skills vs Thermal-Fluid Research Workflow · Research Agent Skills vs Zotero Research Tools
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