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 known GitHub stars, highest first; archived repositories come after maintained repositories. Raw values keep their source-specific window, shown under each tool; a change requires at least two snapshots from the last 7 days.

  1. 1

    Other
    Active

    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.

    TypeScript
    • agent
    • agentic-ai
    • agentic-framework
    • agentic-workflow
    • ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    154 149GitHub stars+540 (+0.35 %)
  2. 2

    App
    Active

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

    Python
    • ai
    • llm
    • llm-ui
    • llm-webui
    • llms

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    150 645GitHub stars+593 (+0.40 %)
  3. 3

    Agent
    Active

    The agent engineering platform.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agents
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    • chatgpt

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    145 465GitHub stars+379 (+0.26 %)
  4. 4

    Model
    Active

    21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

    Jupyter NotebookLicense: MIT
    • ai
    • azure
    • chatgpt
    • dall-e
    • generative-ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    118 967GitHub stars+298 (+0.25 %)
  5. 5

    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.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-agents
    • antigravity
    • ast
    • claude-code
    • code-analysis

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    113 548GitHub stars+2 425 (+2.2 %)
  6. 6

    Other
    Active

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

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai
    • alternative
    • auth
    • database
    • deno

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    108 706GitHub stars+263 (+0.24 %)
  7. 7

    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,…

    JavaScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-memory
    • anthropic
    • artificial-intelligence

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add thedotmack/claude-mem

    92 932GitHub stars+965 (+1.0 %)
  8. 8

    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

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-harness
    • agentic-ai
    • agentic-retrieval
    • agentic-search
    • ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    89 855GitHub stars+518 (+0.58 %)
  9. 9

    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.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent
    • ai
    • anthropic
    • claude-code
    • compression

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    68 350GitHub stars+630 (+0.93 %)
  10. 10

    Other
    Active

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

    JavaScriptLicense: MIT
    • agent-computer
    • agent-harness
    • agent-orchestration
    • agentic-ai
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    65 486GitHub stars+225 (+0.34 %)
  11. 11

    Agent
    Active

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

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agentic-memory
    • agentic-memory-system
    • agents
    • ai
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    64 545GitHub stars+406 (+0.63 %)
  12. 12

    Other
    Active

    【低代码v2.0，一句话即可生成整个系统】企业级AI低代码平台，一键生成前后端代码甚至整个系统。 AI Skills 一句话画流程、设计表单、生成报表、大屏。内置 AI应用平台涵盖：AI聊天、知识库、流程编排、MCP插件等，兼容主流大模型。引领AI低代码「Skills 生成 → 在线配置 → 代码生成 → 手工合并->AI修改」开发模式，解决 Java 项目 90% 重复工作，提高效率又不失灵活。

    JavaLicense: Apache-2.0
    • activiti
    • agent
    • ai
    • antd
    • claude-code

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    47 595GitHub stars+110 (+0.23 %)
  13. 13

    Other
    Active

    Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • anns
    • cloud-native
    • diskann
    • distributed
    • embedding-database

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    45 925GitHub stars+114 (+0.25 %)
  14. 14

    Agent
    Active

    TiDB is built for agentic workloads that grow unpredictably, with ACID guarantees and native support for transactions, analytics, and vector search. No data silos. No noisy neighbors. No infrastructure ceiling.

    GoLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent
    • agent-context
    • agent-memory
    • agentic
    • ai

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    40 479GitHub stars+4 (+0.010 %)
  15. 15

    Library
    Active

    Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you…

    Python
    • ai
    • api
    • chatbot
    • chatgpt
    • database

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    39 451GitHub stars+13 (+0.03 %)
  16. 16

    Agent
    Active

    Vane is an AI-powered answering engine.

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ai-agents
    • ai-search-engine
    • answering-engine
    • artificial-intelligence
    • llm

    githubestimated momentumOpen source ↗

    36 578GitHub stars—
  17. 17

    Other
    Active

    Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-search
    • ai-search-engine
    • embeddings-similarity
    • hnsw
    • hybrid-search

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    34 327GitHub stars+116 (+0.34 %)
  18. 18

    App
    Active

    Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM

    Python
    • ai
    • ai-chat
    • chatgpt
    • chatui
    • enterprise-search

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    31 885GitHub stars+105 (+0.33 %)
  19. 19

    Skill
    Active

    Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-memory
    • agent-skills
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-memory

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/topoteretes/cognee ~/.claude/skills/cognee

    30 405GitHub stars+123 (+0.41 %)
  20. 20

    Agent
    Active

    FastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex…

    TypeScript
    • agent
    • claude
    • deepseek
    • llm
    • mcp

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    29 537GitHub stars+58 (+0.20 %)
  21. 21

    Other
    Active

    Sim is the collaborative workspace to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents and workflows. Used by 100,000+ builders.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent-workflow
    • agentic-workflow
    • agents
    • ai
    • aiagents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    29 510GitHub stars+36 (+0.12 %)
  22. 22

    Other
    Active

    The #1 AI Harness for Building Resumes, PDFs, Cover Letters & more, locally with 100+ LLMs support.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • applicant-tracking-system
    • ats
    • hacktoberfest
    • machine-learning
    • natural-language-processing

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    28 302GitHub stars+8 (+0.03 %)
  23. 23

    Skill
    Active

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

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-skills
    • ai-agents
    • book-to-skill
    • context-engineering
    • document-processing

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    27 824GitHub stars+1 906 (+7.4 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by known GitHub stars, highest first; archived repositories come after maintained repositories. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

  1. 1

    awesome-llm-apps

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

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

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agents
    • llms
    • python
    • rag
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    135 653GitHub stars+1 033 (+0.77 %)
  2. 2

    ai-engineering-hub

    Agent
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    In-depth tutorials on LLMs, RAGs and real-world AI agent applications.

    Jupyter NotebookLicense: MIT
    • agents
    • ai
    • llms
    • machine-learning
    • mcp
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    37 263GitHub stars+75 (+0.20 %)