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An open source deep research clone. AI Agent that reasons large amounts of web data extracted with Firecrawl

⭐ Popular: 6k stars, gaining about 3 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2025 1 year old
language TypeScript
license Other

momentum

total stars 6k
stars added last week +3
commits / week 0 steady
contributors 12
release cadence n/a
last activity 1y 3mo ago

durability

backing community / independent

since we covered it

monthly average + 120/mo (+3%/mo) · + 2k total since PR#2

why it's a big deal

  • Gives teams a self-hostable alternative to OpenAI's Deep Research, so web research over live data can run without a proprietary o3 model.
  • Useful for anyone who wants an AI research agent they can inspect and modify, since it ships as a deployable Next.js app with chat history and file storage.
  • Not locked to one provider; the AI SDK lets you run OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, OpenRouter, or TogetherAI DeepSeek-R1.

under the hood

  • Built in TypeScript on Next.js App Router with React Server Components and Server Actions, styled with shadcn/ui, Tailwind, and Radix.
  • Firecrawl handles web search and structured extraction, and a separate configurable reasoning model reasons over what it pulls back.
  • State lives in Vercel Postgres via Neon for chat history and Vercel Blob for files, with NextAuth for auth; reasoning model defaults to o1-mini and non-OpenAI models need BYPASS_JSON_VALIDATION set.

Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources

star history

PR#2 · 4k6k now Feb 2025Aug 2026
  1. PR#2 4k 2025-02-19
  2. now 6k + 2k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Better known than its recent output, coasting a little on attention.

-34 understory score output 0 · clout 34
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#2 2025-02-19 below the radar

    A Collaborative AI Research Framework

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