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 ### High-Performance Document Processing
 - [MinerU (2024/2025)](https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU) - SOTA multimodal document parsing with 1.2B parameters outperforming GPT-4o, converts PDFs to LLM-ready Markdown/JSON
 - [MinerU-Diffusion (OpenDataLab, ECCV 2026)](https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU-Diffusion) - Diffusion-based document OCR framework replacing autoregressive decoding with block-level parallel diffusion decoding, enabling high-accuracy text recognition in scientific PDFs (613+ stars, MIT License)
+- [OpenDataLoader PDF (OpenDataLoader, 2025)](https://github.com/opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf) - Open-source PDF parser for AI-ready data, converting PDFs into Markdown/JSON/HTML/Tagged PDF with layout analysis and reading-order detection; ranks #1 overall on extraction benchmarks with deterministic bounding boxes and hybrid AI mode (26K+ stars, Apache 2.0)
 - [PDF-Extract-Kit (2024)](https://github.com/opendatalab/PDF-Extract-Kit) - Comprehensive toolkit for high-quality PDF content extraction with layout detection, formula recognition, and OCR
 - [Docling (IBM, AAAI 2025)](https://research.ibm.com/publications/docling-an-efficient-open-source-toolkit-for-ai-driven-document-conversion) - Multi-format (PDF/DOCX/PPTX/HTML/Images) → structured data (Markdown/JSON) with layout reconstruction, table/formula recovery
 - [Nougat (Meta AI)](https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat) - Neural optical understanding for academic documents, transforms scientific PDFs to Markdown with mathematical formula support
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 - [ScholarAIO](https://github.com/ZimoLiao/scholaraio) - 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)
 - [BioMCP](https://github.com/genomoncology/biomcp) - Biomedical Model Context Protocol (MCP) server unifying literature search across PubMed/Europe PMC, entity pivoting across genes/variants/drugs/diseases/pathways/proteins, local study analytics, and Claude Code/Codex integration for agentic biomedical research (531+ stars, MIT License, 2025-2026)
 - [MATLAB Agentic Toolkit](https://github.com/matlab/matlab-agentic-toolkit) - Official MathWorks toolkit connecting AI agents to MATLAB via the MATLAB MCP Server and curated skills, enabling trusted engineering and scientific computing workflows with idiomatic code generation, testing, and error diagnosis in Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and Gemini CLI (686+ stars, BSD-3-Clause, 2026)
+- [open-science](https://github.com/ai4s-research/open-science) - Local-first, open-source AI workbench for scientists — an open alternative to Claude Science (by ai4s-research, maintainers of this list; TypeScript, MIT, 2026)

 ### Literature Management Plugins
 - [llm-for-zotero](https://github.com/yilewang/llm-for-zotero) - Research agent system deeply integrated with Zotero supporting Agent Mode, skills, multi-model backends (OpenAI-compatible, Claude Code, WebChat, Codex), and MinerU PDF parsing for literature Q&A, summarization, figure inspection, and source comparison (1.3K+ stars, 2026)
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 ### Autonomous Research Systems (2023-2025 Breakthroughs)
 - [FunSearch (DeepMind, Nature 2023)](https://github.com/google-deepmind/funsearch) - First system to make novel, verifiable scientific discoveries by pairing LLMs with evolutionary search, solving open problems in combinatorics (cap set problem) and discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms
 - [OpenEvolve](https://github.com/algorithmicsuperintelligence/openevolve) - Open-source implementation of AlphaEvolve's evolutionary coding agent paradigm, enabling LLMs to autonomously discover and optimize algorithms through iterative evolution, matching the approach behind DeepMind's breakthrough matrix multiplication discovery (6.2K+ stars, 2025)
+- [SkyDiscover](https://github.com/skydiscover-ai/skydiscover) - Modular framework for AI-driven scientific and algorithmic discovery, providing a unified interface for implementing, running, and fairly comparing discovery algorithms across 200+ optimization tasks; introduces AdaEvolve and EvoX adaptive/evolutionary algorithms and natively supports OpenEvolve, GEPA, and Harbor-format benchmarks (skydiscover-ai, 568+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)
 - [Virtual Lab (Stanford Zou Group, Nature 2025)](https://github.com/zou-group/virtual-lab) - AI-human collaborative research platform where a human researcher works with a team of LLM agents via team and individual meetings to perform scientific research; demonstrated by designing new SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies with wet-lab validation
 - [The AI Scientist (SakanaAI)](https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist) - First fully autonomous open-ended scientific discovery system with official implementation: hypothesis→experiment→writing→review simulation (13.8K+ stars, 2024)
 - [The AI Scientist v2 (SakanaAI)](https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v2) - Official implementation of the second-generation fully autonomous scientific discovery system, extending the original with agentic tree search and reduced template dependency to achieve workshop-level accepted papers (6.7K+ stars, 2025)
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 - [Arbor](https://github.com/RUC-NLPIR/Arbor) - Generalist autonomous research agent that grows a hypothesis tree to optimize any measurable task, beating Claude Code and Codex by 2.5× on the same compute budget across BrowseComp, Terminal-Bench 2.0, math reasoning, and MLE-Bench Lite; supports native CLI, keyless Claude Code/Codex integration, and an MCP tool server (RUC-NLPIR, 866+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)
 - [NanoResearch](https://github.com/OpenRaiser/NanoResearch) - End-to-end autonomous AI research engine that turns an idea into a complete LaTeX paper by dispatching real computational experiments to local GPUs or SLURM clusters, collecting actual results, generating figures/tables, and writing a data-grounded manuscript rather than LLM hallucinations (OpenRaiser, 1.5K+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
 - [ScienceClaw](https://github.com/beita6969/ScienceClaw) - Self-evolving AI research colleague built on OpenClaw with 285+ runtime-adaptive skills across 28+ disciplines, persistent cross-session research memory, and zero-hallucination citation protocols; agent autonomously writes new SKILL.md files based on research patterns without redeployment (828+ stars, MIT License, 2026)
+- [ai4s-skills](https://github.com/ai4s-research/ai4s-skills) - 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)
 - [Denario (AstroPilot-AI, Agents4Science 2025)](https://github.com/AstroPilot-AI/Denario) - Modular multi-agent scientific research assistant that automates idea generation, literature review, methodology design, code execution in Docker, visualization, LaTeX paper writing, and peer-review simulation across 10+ disciplines; winner of the NeurIPS 2025 Fair Universe Competition (573+ stars, GPL-3.0, 2025-2026)
 - [AI-Researcher](https://github.com/HKUDS/AI-Researcher) - Autonomous pipeline from literature review→hypothesis→algorithm implementation→publication-level writing with Scientist-Bench evaluation
 - [Agent Laboratory](https://agentlaboratory.github.io/) - Multi-agent workflows for complete research cycles with AgentRxiv for cumulative discovery
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 - [CORAL (arXiv 2026)](https://github.com/Human-Agent-Society/CORAL) - Robust, lightweight infrastructure for multi-agent autonomous self-evolution, built for autoresearch; agents run in isolated git worktrees, share knowledge through a common state directory, and are scored by a grader daemon; natively integrated with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, OpenCode, and Kiro (672+ stars, Apache 2.0)
 - [Science-Star (USTC AI4Science, 2025)](https://github.com/ustc-ai4science/Science-Star) - Open-source platform for building, extending, and experimenting with scientific agents, providing modular agent construction tools and standardized evaluation pipelines for accelerating autonomous scientific discovery research (748+ stars, MIT License)
 - [SR-Scientist (ICLR 2026)](https://github.com/GAIR-NLP/SR-Scientist) - Scientific equation discovery with agentic AI, elevating LLMs from equation proposers to autonomous scientists that write code, analyze data, implement equations, and optimize based on experimental feedback; outperforms baselines by 6-35% across four science disciplines with robustness to noise and out-of-domain generalization (GAIR-NLP / SJTU, 49+ stars, Apache 2.0)
+- [ARA (Agent-Native Research Artifact)](https://github.com/ARA-Labs/Agent-Native-Research-Artifact) - Research ecosystem for rigorous and trustworthy AI scientists — a protocol and skill bundle that makes autonomous research verifiable, crystallized, and observable through structured, machine-executable research artifacts and five agent skills for research management, compilation, verification, visualization, and publication (ARA-Labs, 447+ stars, MIT License, 2026)

 ### Evaluation & Benchmarking
 - [ScienceAgentBench (ICLR 2025)](https://github.com/OSU-NLP-Group/ScienceAgentBench) - 102 executable tasks from 44 peer-reviewed papers across 4 disciplines with containerized evaluation
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 - [TITAN (Nature Medicine 2024)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/TITAN) - Multimodal whole-slide pathology foundation model jointly pretrained on H&E histology and diagnostic text reports, enabling zero-shot cancer subtyping, biomarker prediction, and multimodal reasoning across diverse cancer types (Mahmood Lab, 341+ stars)
 - [Virchow (Nature Medicine 2024)](https://huggingface.co/paige-ai/Virchow) - Self-supervised pathology foundation model (ViT-Huge, 632M parameters) pretrained via DINOv2 on 1.5M whole-slide images from Memorial Sloan Kettering across 17 cancer types, with Virchow2 follow-up scaling to 3.1M slides and mixed magnifications, achieving SOTA on biomarker prediction, mutation classification, and rare cancer detection (Paige AI & MSK)
 - [TRIDENT (2025)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/TRIDENT) - Toolkit for large-scale whole-slide image processing supporting 22+ patch encoders (UNI, CONCH, Virchow, H-Optimus-0, etc.), slide encoders (TITAN, GigaPath, PRISM, CHIEF, Madeleine, Feather), tissue segmentation, and multi-GPU inference with end-to-end pipeline and smart resume for standardized deployment of computational pathology foundation models (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 553+ stars)
+- [Feather (Mahmood Lab, ICML 2025 Spotlight)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/MIL-Lab) - Lightweight supervised slide foundation model with 0.9M parameters pretrained on 24K whole-slide images for pan-cancer morphological classification, achieving competitive performance with much larger self-supervised models (TITAN, GigaPath) while enabling finetuning on consumer-grade GPUs; includes standardized MIL implementations and benchmarking across 15+ classification tasks (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 153+ stars)
 - [PathChat (Nature Medicine 2024)](https://github.com/MahmoodLab/PathChat) - Multimodal generative AI assistant for computational pathology enabling interactive visual-language conversations over histopathology images for diagnostic reasoning, case discussion, and education, built on a Mistral-7B backbone with domain-specific fine-tuning (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 1.2K+ stars)
 - [HEST (NeurIPS 2024)](https://github.com/mahmoodlab/HEST) - Dataset and benchmarking framework integrating histology and spatial transcriptomics, enabling multimodal analysis of whole-slide images with matched spatial gene expression for advancing computational pathology and tissue microenvironment research (Mahmood Lab, Harvard Medical School, 411+ stars)