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.

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    Skill
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    Agent skills for Qdrant vector search: scaling, performance optimization, search quality, monitoring, deployment, model migration, version upgrades, and SDK usage across Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, .NET, Java

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    230GitHub stars+3 (+1.3 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    The Complete AI Development Toolkit for Claude Code. 106 skills, 36 agents, 171 hooks. Install `ork` for stable (v9.x), or `ork-alpha` for the v10 line, which ships daily.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add yonatangross/orchestkit

    228GitHub stars+4 (+1.8 %)
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    Active

    Pure instruction-pack skill wrapping Ai2's Asta MCP server (Semantic Scholar). Intent-to-tool routing, safe defaults, multi-agent.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    183GitHub starsstable
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    Active

    USPTO patent creation system with MCP server + Claude Code plugin. Hybrid RAG search over MPEP/USC/CFR, BigQuery access to 76M+ patents, automated 35 USC 112 compliance checks, prior art search, diagram generation. GPU-accelerated with…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    178GitHub stars+2 (+1.1 %)
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    Google NotebookLM over MCP + a local HTTP REST API. Citation-backed Q&A, audio/video/content generation, multi-account rotation. For Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, n8n, Zapier, Make.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    173GitHub stars+6 (+3.6 %)
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    剧本分镜工具智能体(PenShot):电影/动漫/短剧/小说/剧本→分镜→片段→prompt | 基于 LangGraph+LLM,自动解析任意格式剧本,生成 Sora/Veo/Runway 等模型可用的连贯text-to-video提示词。保持角色/剧情跨片段一致,支持 MCP/REST API/函数调用 | Python库 + A2A集成。(LLM-powered screenplay-to-video-prompt agent. Break scripts into…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    172GitHub stars+19 (+12.4 %)
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    Other
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    Deploy intelligence. Open-source infrastructure for AI agents in production.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    169GitHub stars-7 (-4.0 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    🤖 Curated AI OSINT resources — Google dorks, Shodan queries, GitHub dorks, and techniques to discover exposed LLM endpoints, leaked AI API keys, misconfigured vector databases, and unprotected AI agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/7WaySecurity/ai_osint ~/.claude/skills/ai_osint

    162GitHub stars+7 (+4.5 %)
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    Local-first, auditable Python code agent. Ships its own 30-task hidden-test benchmark plus SWE-bench Verified scored by the official harness -- every number reproducible, negative results included.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/hwfengcs/DM-Code-Agent ~/.claude/skills/DM-Code-Agent

    151GitHub starsstable
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    Agent
    Active

    Ruby's capable AI runtime

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    139GitHub stars+2 (+1.5 %)
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    Context Engineering: Build Consistent, Accurate, Predictable AI Systems

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    136GitHub stars+4 (+3.0 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    A self-hosted knowledge platform for humans and AI agents — publish wikis, blogs, and portable Agent Skills.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/Ciao1019/Petrichor ~/.claude/skills/Petrichor

    127GitHub stars+1 (+0.79 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Find out what your coding agents already know. Docmancer indexes the memory, rules, and instructions Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini wrote on your machine, then carries the durable parts to every agent. It is local-first and under…

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    123GitHub stars+1 (+0.82 %)
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    Skill
    Active

    Local-first AI knowledge app and Agent Skill with evidence-backed Wiki, an interactive knowledge universe, Viki Q&A, and shareable knowledge galaxies.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/NimaChu/my-wiki ~/.claude/skills/my-wiki

    123GitHub starsstable
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    Apple Developer Documentation with Semantic Search, RAG, and AI reranking for MCP clients

    mcpmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Remote server, to be declared in the MCP configuration https://mcp.apple-rag.com

    117GitHub stars+1 (+0.86 %)
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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

    111GitHub stars+46 (+70.8 %)
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    MCP server for Claude Code and Codex. One tool call replaces ~42 minutes of agent exploration

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    109GitHub stars+7 (+6.9 %)
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    Alibaba Cloud DashScope MCP: Qwen chat, embeddings, and model discovery on your own account.

    mcpmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install claude mcp add alibaba-cloud -- npx @three-ws/alibaba-cloud-mcp

    105GitHub starsstable
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    x402 pay-per-use IBM Granite AI: chat, code, embeddings, analysis, forecasting. Pay USDC per call.

    mcpmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install claude mcp add ibm-x402-mcp -- npx @three-ws/ibm-x402-mcp

    105GitHub starsstable
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    IBM watsonx.ai MCP by three.ws: chat, text generation, embeddings, and tokenization.

    mcpmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install claude mcp add ibm-watsonx -- npx @three-ws/ibm-watsonx-mcp

    105GitHub starsstable
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    Pay-per-use IBM Granite AI via x402: chat, code, embeddings, forecasting. USDC on Base or Solana.

    mcpmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Remote server, to be declared in the MCP configuration https://three.ws/api/ibm-mcp

    105GitHub starsstable
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    Self improving agents through iterations

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    104GitHub starsstable
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    Skill
    Active

    SRA-Bench and SR-Agents: a benchmark and toolkit for skill-retrieval-augmented LLM agents.

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install git clone https://github.com/oneal2000/SR-Agents ~/.claude/skills/SR-Agents

    102GitHub stars+1 (+0.99 %)

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.

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    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Collection of Claude Skills for DSPy framework - program language models, optimize prompts, and build RAG pipelines systematically

    github

    Install git clone https://github.com/OmidZamani/dspy-skills ~/.claude/skills/dspy-skills

    Resourcemeasured growth
    122GitHub stars+1 (+0.83 %)
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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+39 (+54.9 %)