Research AI agent tools

Agentic Scientist

NewresearchOpen source

Sakana AI's open-source pipeline that turns coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI into AI scientists: from a task file they propose ideas, run and score experiments and ablations, then write the paper.

Added Oct 20, 2026

OpenOSINT

NewresearchOpen source + cloud

An open-source OSINT engine with about 20 passive investigation tools usable from a CLI, a web UI or an MCP server for AI assistants, with hosted monitoring and due-diligence plans.

Added Oct 20, 2026

AutoScientists

NewresearchOpen source

A research system from Harvard's Zitnik lab where teams of LLM agents self-organize to plan and run long-running scientific experiments.

Added Oct 20, 2026

OpenCity Record

NewresearchFreemium

OpenCity Record makes US city council and planning meetings searchable in plain language: what was decided, who voted and what is coming up, drawn from meeting transcripts, agendas and ordinances across hundreds of cities. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through its remote MCP server and ask questions about your local government, with every answer citing the meeting it came from.

Added Oct 20, 2026

Paper Search MCP

NewresearchOpen source

MCP server and CLI that searches and downloads academic papers from arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar and other sources for research agents.

Added Oct 19, 2026

LLM for Zotero

NewresearchOpen source

Zotero plugin that adds a research agent to your library so you can ask questions about papers, compare sources and save notes without leaving the reader.

Added Oct 19, 2026

EvoScientist

NewresearchOpen source

Self-evolving AI scientist system that autonomously explores research ideas, runs experiments and improves with growing skills and memory.

Added Oct 18, 2026

DeepAnalyze

NewresearchOpen source

Agentic LLM from Renmin University that autonomously runs data science pipelines and produces analyst-grade research reports.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Hyperresearch

NewresearchOpen source + cloud

Deep research harness that turns Claude Code or Codex into a research agent building a persistent, searchable wiki, with a hosted API and MCP.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Claude Scientific Writer

NewresearchOpen source

K-Dense's general-purpose scientific writing agent for Claude that drafts research papers and documents.

Added Oct 18, 2026

AIDE ML

NewresearchOpen source

Tree-search agent that drafts, debugs and benchmarks machine-learning code until a target metric is optimized.

Added Oct 18, 2026

MLE-Agent

NewresearchOpen source

Pairing agent for ML engineers and researchers that builds baselines, plans with arXiv and Papers with Code, and works through Kaggle tasks.

Added Oct 18, 2026

MemFree

NewresearchOpen source + cloud

Hybrid AI search engine that answers from your knowledge base and the web, and generates UI pages.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Gemini Notebook

NewresearchSee site

Google's AI research tool, formerly NotebookLM, that analyzes the sources you upload and turns them into summaries, answers and new formats.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Consensus

NewresearchFreemium

AI academic search engine over peer-reviewed literature for finding, organizing and analyzing scientific research.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Hex

NewresearchFreemium

Analytics platform for humans and agents, with conversational analytics, notebooks and context management for data teams.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Dot

NewresearchFreemium

AI data analyst that answers data questions, runs root-cause analysis and sends automated reports.

Added Oct 18, 2026

AskYourDatabase

NewresearchPaid

Chat-with-your-database tool that answers natural-language questions over Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake and more with SQL and charts.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Extruct AI

NewresearchFreemium

Company research API for AI that finds and researches companies from a 10M-company index or the live web, with sources.

Added Oct 18, 2026

Fabi.ai

NewresearchSee site

Discontinued: the AI data analysis platform that combined SQL, Python and AI shut down in 2026 after its team joined Omni (announced May 26, 2026); app.fabi.ai now shows a shutdown notice.

Added Oct 18, 2026

OpenScience

NewresearchOpen source

Research agent workbench that reads the literature, writes and runs code and experiments and logs every step, with skills and connectors for databases like PubMed, UniProt and arXiv.

Added Oct 17, 2026

Paper2Agent

NewresearchOpen source

Multi-agent system that turns a research paper and its code into a working MCP server and agent skills you can query and run.

Added Oct 17, 2026

Google Deep Review

NewresearchFreemium

Google Research's multi-agent system that checks research papers, design docs, and legal or financial documents for logical gaps and unsupported claims.

Added Oct 15, 2026

GPT Researcher

researchOpen source

Autonomous agent that researches the web and writes cited reports.

Added Oct 14, 2026

Elicit

researchFreemium

Research assistant that finds and summarizes academic papers.

Added Oct 14, 2026

STORM

researchOpen source

Stanford system that writes Wikipedia-style articles from web research.

Added Oct 14, 2026

Firecrawl

researchOpen source + cloud

Turns websites into clean, LLM-ready data for agents.

Added Oct 14, 2026

Exa

researchFreemium

Search API built for AI agents.

Added Oct 14, 2026

Tavily

researchFreemium

Search and extraction API tuned for agents.

Added Oct 14, 2026

Dashworks

researchPaid

AI assistant that answers questions from your company's apps and knowledge.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Hebbia

researchEnterprise

AI platform for finance and legal teams that runs agents across large document sets.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Kater

researchPaid

AI data analyst that answers business questions from your data warehouse.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Agent-Reach

researchOpen source

Lets an AI agent read and search sites like X, Reddit, YouTube and GitHub through one toolkit, without paid APIs.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Deer Flow

researchOpen source

ByteDance's open-source long-horizon agent harness that researches, codes and creates using sandboxes, memory and sub-agents.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Vane

researchOpen source

Open-source AI answering engine that searches the web and replies with sources, self-hostable.

Added Oct 16, 2026

DB-GPT

researchOpen source

Open-source agentic data assistant for querying and analyzing data with LLMs.

Added Oct 16, 2026

WrenAI

researchOpen source + cloud

Generative BI for agents: governed text-to-SQL with a semantic context layer.

Added Oct 16, 2026

SurfSense

researchOpen source

Privacy-focused, open-source NotebookLM alternative with a research agent over your sources.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Feynman

researchOpen source

Open-source research agent that searches, reads papers and writes cited reports.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Deep Research (u14)

researchOpen source

Deep research app that works with any LLM and exposes an API and MCP server.

Added Oct 16, 2026

PipesHub

researchOpen source

Open-source context layer that indexes company knowledge for AI agents and search.

Added Oct 16, 2026

MiroFlow

researchOpen source

Research agent framework with web UI supporting MiroThinker and other models.

Added Oct 16, 2026

ToolUniverse

researchOpen source

Harvard's collection of scientific tools for AI scientist agents.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Anamap

researchPaid

AI analytics agent that investigates conversion and revenue changes using your data and release history.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Kuration AI

researchPaid

Builds and maintains your own B2B database with AI agents that pull from registers, trade shows and maps.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Bruin

researchOpen source + cloud

Open-source, AI-powered data platform covering ingestion, pipelines and quality checks.

Added Oct 16, 2026

CoChat

researchFreemium

AI research agents that gather verified sources and organize findings.

Added Oct 16, 2026

Querri

researchFreemium

AI data analyst that cleans scattered data and answers questions in plain English.

Added Oct 16, 2026