open-science

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)

Open-source, local-first desktop AI research workbench for scientific computing with Python/R, MCP bioinformatics tools, SSH/WSL/GPU runtimes, and OpenAI/Anthropic models (857+ stars, 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)

Free, open-source desktop AI research assistant that runs locally and turns natural-language requests into real data analysis, literature search, figure generation, and manuscript review; ships with 149 scientific skills, 326 workflow templates, and 229 databases across genomics, proteomics, drug discovery, and materials science, plus a living lab notebook, 60+ scientific file previews, and LaTeX editing (K-Dense-AI, 908+ stars, MIT License, 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)

Large-scale knowledge graph and pip-installable client for literature-grounded automated scientific research, connecting papers, authors, institutions, venues, keywords, citations, and a four-level research taxonomy across medicine, social sciences, engineering, computer science, materials science, and more (ZJU NLP, arXiv 2026, 136+ stars, MIT License)