Research stack

Tools that move research forward.

Open-source systems, agent skills and sharp demos — selected for a concrete research job, inspectable evidence and a path to try them now.

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Agent SkillsEDITOR'S PICK

AI & CSMultidisciplinary

AREX-Skill + DisCo

The missing skill layer between intelligence and research

The current public checkout contains 1,060 operating skills for 170 repositories across 14 families. DisCo can create, verify and refresh skill graphs, then route only the relevant fragment into a research task.

Impact88

Buzz94

Utility93

+134.3%MLE-bench gain

1,060public skills

170repository graphs

$npm install -g @auto-ml-skills/disco && disco repo-skills install

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Open SourceAgentReproducibility

Paper SearchEDITOR'S PICK

AI & CSMath & StatsPhysics

DeepXiv SDK

An agent-native CLI and index for all of arXiv

T+1 full-index updates, progressive paper reading, section-level LLM summaries, semantic search and social attention signals from X — designed to reduce paper-reading context and token cost.

Impact78

Buzz82

Utility91

T+1index refresh

80%+reported token saving

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CLIarXivAgent API

People SearchEDITOR'S PICK

Multidisciplinary

DINQ

Turn an underspecified people-search request into verifiable candidates

A requirement-driven people-search agent with bounded clarification, two-stage confirmation and evidence validation. Built for hard-to-find researchers whose work lives across papers, code and the open web.

Impact84

Buzz87

Utility86

691real requests

1.9×verified recall

90%exclusive hits

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AgentEvidenceMCP

Demo

Multidisciplinary

DINQ Analysis

Inspect and compare people-search results

A focused companion experience for understanding candidate evidence and search behavior.

Impact62

Buzz68

Utility71

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DemoAnalysisPeople Search

Demo

Multidisciplinary

Find 1st Author

A lightweight research-talent discovery demo

An alternative people-finding demo for comparing discovery paths and candidate coverage.

Impact56

Buzz63

Utility69

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DemoDiscoveryResearch Talent

Agent SkillsEDITOR'S PICK

Multidisciplinary

学术智能体 / Scholar Copilot

A local, customizable academic workspace around your own literature

Turns local PDFs and research notes into a cited private knowledge base, supports reusable review and writing skills, and routes tasks across several frontier models. The product guide says knowledge-base and conversation data currently remain on the user's computer.

Impact70

Buzz76

Utility85

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Local-firstKnowledge BaseCustom Skills

MCP & Infra

Multidisciplinary

OpenAlex

An open graph of the global research system

A fully open catalog connecting works, authors, institutions, topics, funders and sources, with a public API and downloadable snapshot for literature analytics and agent tools.

Impact96

Buzz72

Utility94

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Open DataAPIKnowledge Graph

Paper Search

Bio & Medicine

Europe PMC

Open life-sciences literature with links to data, protocols and reviews

Search life-sciences publications and preprints, including full text, citations, open peer review, protocols and biomedical entity annotations.

Impact94

Buzz65

Utility95

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Open AccessLiteratureBiomedical

Data & Compute

Materials & ChemistryPhysics

Materials Project

Open computed properties and apps for materials discovery

DOE-backed infrastructure that pre-computes material properties and exposes exploration apps, contributed datasets and APIs for batteries, catalysts, solar and other discovery workflows.

Impact97

Buzz70

Utility96

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Open DataAPISimulation

Data & Compute

Materials & ChemistryPhysicsBio & Medicine

PLUMED

Community-developed enhanced sampling for molecular simulation

An open-source library for enhanced sampling, free-energy methods and trajectory analysis that integrates with widely used molecular-dynamics engines.

Impact92

Buzz60

Utility90

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Open SourceSimulationMolecular Dynamics

Paper Search

Physics

INSPIRE HEP

Curated literature, data and people for high-energy physics

A field-specific information platform covering HEP literature, citations, author profiles, conferences, institutions, experiments and jobs.

Impact95

Buzz61

Utility93

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LiteratureCitationsResearch Jobs

Paper Search

MultidisciplinarySocial Science

Open Knowledge Maps

Visual maps for exploring a research field

An open, nonprofit discovery tool that builds visual overviews from scholarly metadata and links publications, datasets, software and other research outputs.

Impact86

Buzz66

Utility87

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Open SourceVisualizationDiscovery

Your upvote stays in this browser. GitHub metrics are public snapshots

Curation standard

A launch post should answer four questions

What research job does it solve? What is new? What evidence supports the claim? How can someone reproduce or try it?

01Job02Novelty03Evidence04Try it