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Alternatives to web-research

web-research is an agent skill by langchain-ai: Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match web-research and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. alpha-research leads the list (largest repository here (10,016 stars); active in the last 30 days). 1 of them is published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with web-research.

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web-research

Searches multiple web sources, synthesizes findings, and produces cited research reports using delegated subagents.

12 alternatives

Ordered by how closely each matches web-research (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.

  1. 1
    alpha-research

    Companion-Inc

    Search, read, and query research papers via Feynman's alphaXiv-backed alpha tools.

    • Largest repository here (10,016 stars)
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 10KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  2. 2
    literature-review

    Companion-Inc

    Run a literature review using paper search and primary-source synthesis.

    • Largest repository here (10,016 stars)
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 10KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  3. 3
    deepapi

    davidondrej

    Use DeepAPI for all web search, deep research, and web scraping (websites, LinkedIn, GitHub, X/Twitter, YouTube, Instagram) instead of built-in search…

    • Repository has 4.2K stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 4.2KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  4. 4
    deep-research

    davidondrej

    Run deep research through DeepAPI and save a report with sources.

    • Repository has 4.2K stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 4.2KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  5. 5
    firecrawl-research-index

    firecrawlOfficial

    Find the papers that answer a research query in Firecrawl's research paper index — a corpus of paper abstracts whose largest share is biomedical and…

    • Published by the vendor
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 664Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  6. 6
    research-stage-publication

    Optima-CityU

    Publish the current revision of an LLM4AD research workflow stage, including after a user edits and replaces an earlier conversation turn.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (BSD-3-Clause)

    ★ 677Last active Sep 29, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  7. 7
    deep-research-report

    impredicative

    Produce a comprehensive, referenced deep-research report on a given topic as a downloadable markdown file.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (LGPL-3.0)

    ★ 157Last active Oct 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  8. 8
    openakita/skills@baidu-deep-research

    baidu

    Qianfan Deep Research Agent for complex research tasks.

    • Supports Python

    ★ 2KLast active Sep 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  9. 9
    review-paper

    Aperivue

    Use when writing a literature review article (narrative, scoping PRISMA-ScR or systematic).

    • Supports Python and bash

    ★ 349Last active Oct 4, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  10. 10
    discover-interview-synthesis

    product-on-purpose

    Synthesizes user research interviews into actionable insights, patterns, and recommendations.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (Apache-2.0)

    ★ 758Last active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  11. 11
    gemini-deep-researcher

    duotify

    Use this skill when a user wants a comprehensive research report on any topic with cited sources.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 254Last active Aug 7, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

  12. 12
    obsidian-literature-workflow

    Galaxy-Dawn

    Use this skill for project-scoped literature review built on Sources/Papers, with synthesis landing in Knowledge, writing handoff in Writing, and the default…

    • Supports Python

    ★ 5.9KLast active May 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6

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