RAG and search: tools for developers

Retrieval-augmented tools, vector databases, embeddings and semantic search. An entry can appear under several use cases when its topics or description provide several explicit signals.

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Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

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    App
    Active

    World's first open-source enterprise world model.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    3 799GitHub stars+2 967 (+356.6 %)
  2. 2
    Active

    AI-powered virtual executive team — a single coherent executive persona backed by 8 specialist Claude agents (FastAPI + Next.js).

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    3 652GitHub stars+1 125 (+44.5 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Open-source infrastructure that turns scattered SKILL.md files into curated, retrieval-ready agent-skill corpora—with retrieval and evaluation tooling included.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/EverMind-AI/SkillCorpus ~/.claude/skills/SkillCorpus

    493GitHub stars+205 (+71.2 %)
  4. 4

    Other
    Active

    Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    11 884GitHub stars+735 (+6.6 %)
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    Active

    Turn any technical book PDF into a Claude Code skill — ready to study, reference, and use while you work.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/virgiliojr94/book-to-skill ~/.claude/skills/book-to-skill

    28 305GitHub stars+1 573 (+5.9 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    AI-agent skill producing reusable Markdown from PDFs. It turns flowcharts, diagrams, and charts into text beside each caption instead of empty links. It checks an earlier conversion against the PDF and fixes misread or missing parts. Long…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/libnyx/LT2MD ~/.claude/skills/LT2MD

    104GitHub stars+45 (+76.3 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify ~/.claude/skills/graphify

    114 470GitHub stars+2 426 (+2.2 %)
  8. 8

    MCP
    Active

    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.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    68 835GitHub stars+901 (+1.3 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini,…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add thedotmack/claude-mem

    93 119GitHub stars+594 (+0.64 %)
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    Agent
    Active

    RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    90 012GitHub stars+467 (+0.52 %)
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    Other
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    Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    154 387GitHub stars+601 (+0.39 %)
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    Active

    User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    150 860GitHub stars+599 (+0.40 %)
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    Active

    ReachAI企业级智能体开发平台:快速、安全完成已有业务系统智能化改造,让 AI 在 OA、ERP、CRM 等原系统中查数据、填表单、办业务。ReachAI: Quickly and securely bring AI to existing enterprise systems, enabling AI to query data, fill out forms, and execute business tasks directly within OA, ERP,…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/w8123/EnterpriseAgentFramework ~/.claude/skills/EnterpriseAgentFramework

    670GitHub stars+69 (+11.5 %)
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    Agent
    Active

    The Memory Layer for AI Agents - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    64 675GitHub stars+396 (+0.62 %)
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    Active

    A trilingual (繁中 / English / 简中) learning roadmap for agentic AI: from LLM basics to multi-agent systems, with 240+ curated resources and hands-on examples. 中文 AI agent 學習地圖。

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    6 642GitHub stars+166 (+2.6 %)
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    Active

    21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    119 116GitHub stars+395 (+0.33 %)
  17. 17

    Agent
    Active

    The agent engineering platform.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    145 605GitHub stars+391 (+0.27 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/alibaba/zvec ~/.claude/skills/zvec

    15 741GitHub stars+209 (+1.3 %)
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    MCP
    Active

    AURA is a production-tested SRE agent platform you can deploy in minutes. AURA handles the guardrails, APIs, state management, streaming, and failure handling required to put AI to work safely on production infrastructure.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    291GitHub stars+33 (+12.8 %)
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    Other
    Active

    The Postgres development platform. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    108 815GitHub stars+271 (+0.25 %)
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    Other
    Active

    Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    65 583GitHub stars+236 (+0.36 %)
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    Active

    全流程 智能招投标 Agent:标书生成 · 招投标解读 · 标书检查 · 标书文档ai排版 · 商机发现 一键完成。 21 项合规检查 · 多模型切换 · RAG 知识库 · OCR 抽取。 从招标公告到可交付 docx 文档,全流程 AI 自动化。

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/guangshu100/BidMaster-Pro ~/.claude/skills/BidMaster-Pro

    244GitHub stars+25 (+11.4 %)
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    Other
    Active

    Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming/pentesting/vulnerability scanning for AI. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration. Used by OpenAI…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    24 797GitHub stars+146 (+0.59 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by measured growth, normalized across sources. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    AtlasAgent - an auditable AI agent control plane: evidence-backed memory, governed tool runtime, checkpoint DAG recovery, and a 55-chapter engineering tutorial. FastAPI / Next.js PWA / Textual TUI

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/malevrigns/atlas-agent-control-plane ~/.claude/skills/atlas-agent-control-plane

    Resourcemeasured growth
    110GitHub stars+44 (+66.7 %)
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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    100+ AI Agents, Agent Skills and RAG Apps - Free and Open Source.

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps ~/.claude/skills/awesome-llm-apps

    Resourcemeasured growth
    135 960GitHub stars+648 (+0.48 %)