20 Brave Search CLI (bx) alternatives
Brave Search CLI (bx): Brave's official search skill: one CLI that searches, scrapes and extracts in a single call, returning token-budgeted web content instead of a list of links. 20 agent skills do similar work, most sharing Research, RAG and Search, ranked by how much they have in common with Brave Search CLI (bx).
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by Brave
Brave's official skill for the Brave Search API — ranked web results with snippets and thumbnails, freshness and SafeSearch filters, search operators, pagination, and Goggles for custom ranking.
Also: Research, Search, Web Search
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by SerpApi
SerpApi's official skill for structured search: which of 130+ engines to call for citations, local businesses, flights, hotels, shopping or jobs, which response key holds the answer, and the gotchas that silently return the wrong field.
Also: Research, Web Search
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by OpenSearch Project
Take an OpenSearch search application from requirements to a running cluster — BM25, dense and sparse vectors, hybrid retrieval, agentic search and RAG, with relevance evaluation built in.
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by Redis, Inc.
Redis' own guidance for FT.CREATE schema design, FT.SEARCH / FT.AGGREGATE / FT.HYBRID, HNSW vector similarity and RAG retrieval pipelines.
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by MongoDB
MongoDB's official skill for choosing between Atlas Search, Vector Search and Hybrid Search, then building the right indexes and queries for the use case.
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by docling-project (IBM)
Parse, convert, chunk, and structurally analyze PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, HTML, and images with IBM's open-source Docling toolkit.
Also: RAG
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by Weaviate
Weaviate's official skill for searching and managing vector collections — hybrid, semantic and keyword search, schema inspection, filtered fetches and bulk imports.
Also: RAG
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by NVIDIA
Deploy, configure and troubleshoot the NVIDIA RAG Blueprint from your agent — Docker Compose, Helm or library, with feature toggles for VLM, guardrails and agentic RAG.
Also: RAG
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by Qdrant
Qdrant's meta-skill: instead of shipping static docs, it loads the current official Qdrant skill tree live from skills.qdrant.tech and diagnoses from that.
Also: RAG
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by Anthropic
Anthropic's official skill that appends 2-3 targeted follow-up questions to a substantive answer, prompting the reader to check facts, probe assumptions and spot missing context.
Also: Research
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by Bo
Multi-source academic literature search as an agent skill — OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, PubMed and arXiv at four depths, from a 5-minute scan to a PRISMA-S logged systematic review.
Also: Research
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by Cheng-I Wu
A four-skill bundle that runs the academic pipeline end to end — deep research, paper writing, peer review and revision — as multi-agent workflows inside Claude Code.
Also: Research
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by tigerless-labs
A decision board for contested calls: feed your agent papers and half-formed ideas, and it files them into a traceable sources → ideas → output structure you can defend, with a visual canvas over the markdown.
Also: Research
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by Oldcircle
Find where a photo was taken: EXIF, OCR, OpenStreetMap, skyline and satellite matching, with coordinates, error radius and evidence images.
Also: Research
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by Tencent
Tencent's skill-evolution harness: it rewrites a whole skill folder — SKILL.md, scripts and references together — and lands every decision as a real Git issue, PR and wiki entry you can review.
Also: Research
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by Hugging Face
Read-only recipes for the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API — resolve splits, paginate rows, run text search and row filters, and pull parquet URLs and column statistics.
Also: Research
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by NVIDIA
Turns a plain-language weather question into a working Earth2Studio inference script — picks the AI forecast model, a compatible data source, an IO backend, and the step count.
Also: Research
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by Basecamp
Drive a HEY account from an agent through the HEY CLI — Imbox and screener, threads, replies, drafts, contacts, calendar, todos, habits, time tracking and journal entries.
Also: CLI
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by Microsoft
Microsoft's official Playwright skill — drives a real browser from the command line using accessibility snapshots and element refs, and plans, generates and heals Playwright tests.
Also: CLI
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by Railway
Railway's official agent skill: create projects, provision databases and buckets, deploy, manage variables and domains, and read build failures back — from the CLI, API or MCP server.
Also: CLI
