FAROS (OpenNSWM-Lab)

Local-first autonomous research system implementing a Git-like research protocol for long-running scientific discovery; explores competing explanations, executes experiments inside an isolation boundary, self-criticizes results, and exports the entire path as typed Agent-Native Research Artifacts (ARA) with exploration DAGs, claim-to-evidence anchors, content hashes, and re-execution hooks (126+ stars, Apache 2.0, arXiv 2026)

End-to-end autonomous AI research engine that turns an idea into a complete LaTeX paper by dispatching real computational experiments to local GPUs or SLURM clusters, collecting actual results, generating figures/tables, and writing a data-grounded manuscript rather than LLM hallucinations (OpenRaiser, 1.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Principle-first scientific idea discovery framework that extracts reusable principles from public literature and private research materials, composes them into traceable Idea Cards with prior-art comparisons, and exports validation-ready research packs; emphasizes inspectable scientific objects, risk disclosure, and falsification paths (ICML 2026, 411+ stars, MIT License)

Fully autonomous research from idea to paper with multi-agent debate, citation verification, and OpenClaw integration (11K+ stars, 2026)

Agent-agnostic research infrastructure providing AI agents with a structured scientific workspace for deep PDF parsing, hybrid semantic/keyword literature search, citation-graph analysis, topic discovery, and academic writing workflows; natively integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline, and AgentSkills.io (530+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

Agent skills (SKILL.md + deterministic tools) for the AI4S workflow — topic exploration, literature survey, runnable experiments, publication-grade papers, and integrity audit, with every citation and number traceable to its source (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; MIT, 2026)