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.

Use case

Activity

Sort by

109 entries in this view.

Tool ranking

Ranked by creation date, newest first; undated entries come last. 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

    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 952GitHub stars+925 (+1.4 %)
  2. 2

    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

    93 211GitHub stars+617 (+0.67 %)
  3. 3

    Other
    Active

    Graph-Native Infrastructure for Context and Accountable AI Systems

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • agent-memory
    • ai
    • ai-governance
    • ai-infrastructure
    • artificial-intelligence

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    12 013GitHub stars+748 (+6.6 %)
  4. 4

    Agent
    Active

    Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agentic-data-framework
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • change-data-capture
    • codebase-intelligence

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    11 468GitHub stars+36 (+0.31 %)
  5. 5

    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 544GitHub stars+53 (+0.18 %)
  6. 6

    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—
  7. 7

    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 ↗

    90 060GitHub stars+456 (+0.51 %)
  8. 8

    App
    Active

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

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    150 969GitHub stars+607 (+0.40 %)
  9. 9

    Agent
    Active

    BISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. Powerful and comprehensive features include: GenAI workflow, RAG, Agent, Unified model management, Evaluation, SFT, Dataset Management, Enterprise-level…

    PythonLicense: Apache-2.0
    • agent
    • ai
    • chatbot
    • enterprise
    • finetune

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    11 923GitHub stars+3 (+0.03 %)
  10. 10

    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 714GitHub stars+387 (+0.60 %)
  11. 11

    Model
    Active

    21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    119 168GitHub stars+407 (+0.34 %)
  12. 12

    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 495GitHub stars+57 (+0.14 %)
  13. 13

    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…

    TypeScriptLicense: MIT
    • ci
    • ci-cd
    • cicd
    • evaluation
    • evaluation-framework

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    24 825GitHub stars+159 (+0.64 %)
  14. 14

    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 932GitHub stars+103 (+0.32 %)
  15. 15

    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 474GitHub stars+623 (+0.40 %)
  16. 16

    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 575GitHub stars+77 (+0.26 %)
  17. 17

    Agent
    Active

    The agent engineering platform.

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

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    145 668GitHub stars+412 (+0.28 %)
  18. 18

    Other
    Active

    High-performance data engine for AI and multimodal workloads. Process images, audio, video, and structured data at any scale

    RustLicense: Apache-2.0
    • ai-engineering
    • ai-pipeline
    • arrow
    • artificial-intelligence
    • big-data

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    5 747GitHub stars+15 (+0.26 %)
  19. 19

    Library
    Active

    LakeSoul is an end-to-end, realtime cloud-native Lakehouse framework for fast data ingestion, concurrent updates, incremental analytics, multimodal data processing and vector search — powering next-generation BI and AI workloads.

    JavaLicense: Apache-2.0
    • arrow
    • daft
    • datafusion
    • flink
    • gluten

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    3 249GitHub stars+2 (+0.06 %)
  20. 20

    Other
    Active

    Data Agent Ready Warehouse : One for Analytics, Search, AI, Python Sandbox. — rebuilt from scratch. Unified architecture on your S3.

    Rust
    • ai
    • bigdata
    • cloud-native
    • database
    • elasticsearch

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    9 434GitHub stars+8 (+0.08 %)
  21. 21

    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 391GitHub stars+130 (+0.38 %)

Learning resources

Ranked by creation date, newest first; undated entries come last. These resources remain available separately and do not take part in the main tool ranking.

  1. 1

    ai-resources

    Other
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Comprehensive collection of AI concepts, research findings, and practical implementations. From machine learning fundamentals to cutting-edge LLMs, agents, and emerging technologies.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • a2a
    • ai
    • azureopenai
    • mcp
    • openai
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    1GitHub starsstable
  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+33 (+0.09 %)
  3. 3

    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
    136 089GitHub stars+777 (+0.57 %)
  4. 4

    azure-openai-llm-notes

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A curated collection of resources for 🌌 Azure OpenAI, 🦙 LLMs (+RAG, Agents). Monthly Updates.

    Python
    • agent
    • agent-framework
    • agent-skills
    • ai-engineering
    • ai-tools
    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/kimtth/azure-openai-llm-notes ~/.claude/skills/azure-openai-llm-notes

    Resourcemeasured growth
    410GitHub starsstable