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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Mixed ranking: measured growth takes priority; entries without two snapshots are estimated. 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

    Skill
    Active

    Your AI confers, with anyone's — an open A2A protocol platform where AI Agents talk to each other on behalf of their owners. Self-hosted, DID:web identity, RFC 9421 signatures, Claude Code plugin.

    TypeScriptLicense: Apache-2.0
    • a2a
    • a2a-protocol
    • agent-communication
    • agent-to-agent
    • ai-agents

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

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

    3GitHub starsstable
  2. 2

    Skill
    Active

    Claude Code plugin: four-layer long-term memory (L0→L1→L2→L3 Persona) with local FTS5 + EmbeddingGemma vector hybrid recall, zero external API

    JavaScript
    • agent
    • ai-agent
    • claude-code-plugin
    • embedding
    • llm

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install /plugin marketplace add baodq97/tencentdb-agent-memory

    10GitHub starsstable
  3. 3

    CLI
    Active

    Rust-powered code intelligence CLI for AI coding agents. Builds call graphs and hybrid semantic search indexes (Dense + Sparse + RRF + Reranker) across 7 languages. Ships as native MCP tools for Claude Code and Codex CLI.

    RustLicense: MIT
    • agent-tools
    • ai-development-tools
    • ai-tools
    • bm25
    • call-graph

    githubmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    764GitHub stars-1 (-0.13 %)
  4. 4

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    Interface between LLMs and your data

    • LLM
    • NLP
    • RAG
    • data
    • devtools

    pypimeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install pip install llama-index

    781 161downloads over 7 days-206 854 (-20.9 %)
  5. 5

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    Typescript bindings for langchain

    • llm
    • ai
    • gpt3
    • chain
    • prompt

    npmmeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install npm install langchain

    1 918 070downloads over 7 days-677 690 (-26.1 %)
  6. 6

    Library
    UnknownLast commit: unavailable

    Embeddings, Retrieval, and Reranking

    • Transformer Networks
    • BERT
    • XLNet
    • sentence embedding
    • PyTorch

    pypimeasured growthOpen source ↗

    Install pip install sentence-transformers

    5 340 106downloads over 7 days-795 607 (-13.0 %)
  7. 7

    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—

Learning resources

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

  1. 1

    claude-memory

    Other
    DormantOpen source ↗

    Persistent memory for Claude Code. Auto-capture decisions, learnings, client info. Cloud backup to Supabase. Never lose context again. Free alternative to Mem.ai, Rewind AI, Personal AI.

    PythonLicense: MIT
    • ai-memory
    • claude
    • claude-code
    • claude-code-skills
    • claude-memory
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    14GitHub starsstable
  2. 2

    spring-ai-recipes-learning

    Agent
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Spring AI 实战教程 🚀 ChatClient → RAG → MCP → Agent → A2A，24 个手写模块循序渐进（Spring Boot 4.1 + Spring AI 2.0 + Java 21）

    Java
    • a2a
    • ai-agent
    • chatclient
    • gradle
    • java
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    3GitHub starsstable
  3. 3

    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
  4. 4

    membrane

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    A selective learning and memory substrate for agentic systems — typed, revisable, decayable memory with competence learning and trust-aware retrieval.

    GoLicense: MIT
    • agent
    • agent-framework
    • agent-memory
    • agent-skills
    • agentic
    github

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

    Resourcemeasured growth
    94GitHub starsstable
  5. 5

    production-ai-engineering

    Agent
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Handbook técnico aberto sobre engenharia de IA em produção: ML tradicional, LLMs, RAG, agentes, segurança, observabilidade, FinOps e deployment.

    Markdown
    • a2a-protocol
    • agentic-ai
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-engineering
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    1GitHub starsstable
  6. 6

    ai-agent-architecture

    Other
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Build LLM systems you actually control. A free, open engineering book + course — from tokenization to serving your own models. Mechanisms, trade-offs, and numbers, not prompt tips

    HTML
    • a2a-protocol
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • context-engineering
    • distributed-systems
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    46GitHub starsstable
  7. 7

    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
  8. 8

    agentic-ai-engineer-roadmap

    Agent
    DormantOpen source ↗

    Interactive roadmap for becoming an Agentic AI Engineer — 11 stages from Python & FastAPI to multi-agent systems, MCP, RAG, Docker, and context engineering

    HTML
    • a2a
    • agentic-ai
    • ai
    • containerization
    • llm
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    1GitHub starsstable
  9. 9

    Agentic-AI-Project-Find-Deal-Opportunities

    Other
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Detect underpriced products by scraping deals and using AI models to estimate fair prices for profit opportunity identification.

    Jupyter Notebook
    • a
    • a2a
    • activemq
    • amqp
    • awesome
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    1GitHub starsstable
  10. 10

    claude-wiki

    Skill
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Official Claude Documentation - Converted to 2000+ Markdown Files - All documentation sourced from first party sources- 24 categories - refreshed daily, multi-agent orchestration

    HTML
    • agents-sdk
    • anthropic
    • anthropic-api
    • claude
    • claude-ai
    github

    Install /plugin marketplace add johnzfitch/claude-wiki

    Resourcemeasured growth
    21GitHub starsstable
  11. 11

    awesome-agentic-ai

    MCP
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    Curated Agentic AI resources: AI agent frameworks, tutorials, courses, projects, MCP tools, research papers, evaluation, security, and production guides.

    License: CC0-1.0
    • a2a
    • agent-framework
    • agentic-ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-engineering
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    2GitHub starsstable
  12. 12

    Agentic_AI_Engineer

    Agent
    ActiveOpen source ↗

    My complete journey to becoming an Agentic AI Engineer through structured learning, projects, experiments, and production-ready implementations of modern AI systems.

    Jupyter NotebookLicense: MIT
    • a2a-protocol
    • agent-orchestration
    • ai-guardrails
    • fastapi
    • kubernetes
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    18GitHub starsstable
  13. 13

    GenAI-Projects

    Agent
    DormantOpen source ↗

    Collection of some interesting Generative AI usecases implementation.

    Jupyter NotebookLicense: MIT
    • a2a-protocol
    • chatbot
    • gemini-api
    • gemini-live
    • generative-ai
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    2GitHub starsstable
  14. 14

    awesome-agents

    Agent
    DormantOpen source ↗

    50+ AI agent apps you can actually run — MCP, A2A, LangGraph, SAP, RAG, and multi-agent patterns

    • a2a
    • ai-agents
    • anthropic
    • awesome-list
    • langchain
    githubResourcemeasured growth
    0GitHub starsstable