BrainPilot

Comprehensive Claude Code skill suite covering the full academic pipeline from deep research and paper writing to multi-perspective peer review, revision, and finalization; features multi-agent teams, PRISMA systematic review, style calibration, claim-level citation audits, integrity gates, and human-in-the-loop safeguards (38K+ stars, CC BY-NC 4.0, 2026)

Text-space optimizer that treats agent skill documents as trainable parameters for frozen LLMs, using scored rollouts and held-out validation gates to iteratively improve reusable natural-language skills; includes SkillOpt-Sleep for nightly self-evolution and improves accuracy across Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and direct-chat harnesses, making it a meta-tool for evolving scientific agent skill workflows (15.5K+ stars, MIT License, PyPI)

Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding, experiments, writing, and publication (Galaxy-Dawn, 4.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Open-source, local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench for reproducible scientific discovery; runs Python/R notebooks, searches the web, calls scientific data connectors, and produces inspectable reports, tables, and figures in a self-hosted desktop workspace (1.5K+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

Official Jupyter extension with `%%ai` magic commands and sidebar chat assistant, connecting multiple model providers and local inference

Open-source AI workbench for scientific research that automates the full research loop — literature review, hypothesis generation, code writing, experiment execution, database querying, and report writing — with 290+ skills, specialized research agents, and a browser-based workspace (1453+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)