10 open-source GitHub repos that research topics and write cited reports
victor_explore · x · 2026-11-06
A curated list of 10 open-source deep research repos on GitHub (star counts checked Oct 2026) that can research a topic, write cited reports, draft Wikipedia-style articles, or dig through private docs:
- DeerFlow (ByteDance, 6.3k★): research and coding agent
- STORM (Stanford-OVAL, 32k★): Wikipedia-style articles with citations
- GPT Researcher (30k★): long cited reports from web and files
- Tongyi DeepResearch (Alibaba, 26k★): open research model
- Deep Research (dzhng, 26k★): under 500 lines, easy to modify
- Feynman (19k★): research agent for papers
- Local Deep Researcher (LangChain, 9k★): runs fully locally
- Local Deep Research (9.7k★): arXiv and PubMed support
- MiroThinker (8k★): open research models plus agent
- DeepSearcher (Zilliz, 8k★): deep research over private docs
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