Best ai agents for search & research.
4 ai agents in Search & research. The top 2 are ranked by public GitHub stars, collected October 5, 2026; the rest are listed below them. Web search, retrieval, academic and knowledge sources for better informed agents.
| # | Listing | Category | Stars | Forks | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeerFlow Open-source super-agent harness orchestrating sub-agents, memory, skills and sandboxes for research, coding and report or slide creation, with configurable MCP servers. | Search & research | 83.4k | 11.6k | Oct 5, 2026 |
| 2 | GPT Researcher Open-source autonomous research agent with planner and executor components that gathers sources and compiles cited reports, supporting MCP data sources. | Search & research | 29.9k | 4.1k | Oct 1, 2026 |
More ai agents for search & research 2
Listed without a public GitHub repository, or not yet collected.
Elicit
Research platform whose agents search, screen and extract data from academic papers to run systematic reviews and cited reports; offers an API and MCP.
Parallel
Web search and research APIs built for agents with retrieval, cited deep research, entity enrichment and monitoring; Parallel Search is also a hosted MCP server.
Questions and answers
What is the most-starred ai agent for search & research?
DeerFlow, with 83,403 public GitHub stars as of October 5, 2026. Open-source super-agent harness orchestrating sub-agents, memory, skills and sandboxes for research, coding and report or slide creation, with configurable MCP servers.
How many ai agents for search & research are listed?
4 on RUAGENTIC, 2 of them ranked by stars and 2 listed without a public GitHub repository or without collected metrics.
How is this list ranked?
By public GitHub star count, read hourly from the repository each listing links to, last collected October 5, 2026. Stars measure attention on GitHub, not quality or safety. Listings that share one repository appear once. Sponsorship never changes a rank.
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