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Open-source browser agent project. Its browser-use CLI lets Claude Code, Codex and other agents drive your logged-in local Chrome with Python snippets, or connect to a cloud browser; also ships a Python agent library. The cloud browser needs an API key.

PostHog's official hosted MCP: lets agents query product analytics with HogQL, manage feature flags and A/B experiments, and investigate errors and session replays. Sign in to PostHog to authorize; tool calls are free, though a few LLM-powered tools count toward AI usage.

Controls your local Chrome over CDP to navigate, click, type, take screenshots and scrape data, reusing logged-in sessions. Official browser-use skill; install the browser-use CLI with uv first.

Empirical social science skills from Stanford REAP and CoPaper.AI, bundling 77 in-house and third-party collections: topic selection, literature reviews, DID/RD/IV identification, regression tables in Python, Stata or R, robustness audits and paper writing. Stata flows need Stata installed.

Extracts text and tables from PDFs; merges, splits and rotates pages, adds watermarks, fills forms and OCRs scanned documents. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

Diagnoses website SEO issues: checks crawling and indexing, Core Web Vitals, metadata and on-page content, and gives prioritized, actionable fixes. From the marketingskills collection.

Official Linear plugin in Anthropic's marketplace: connects the hosted Linear MCP to create and update issues, manage projects and states, and search across workspaces from chat. Needs a Linear account and OAuth authorization.

Product management plugin: writes PRDs from a problem statement, plans and updates roadmaps, generates stakeholder updates, synthesizes user research, and runs competitive analysis and metrics reviews. Official from Anthropic.

A complete development methodology for coding agents: brainstorm to clarify requirements, write an implementation plan, then build with subagents, with red-green TDD, systematic debugging and code review throughout. In the official Claude Code and Codex marketplaces.

From Microsoft: converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and other files or URLs to Markdown so agents can read and search them. A single convert_to_markdown tool over STDIO or local HTTP.

Injects up-to-date, version-specific docs and code examples for libraries and frameworks into the agent's context, so it stops using outdated or invented APIs. By Upstash; works anonymously, and a free API key raises the limits.

Matt Pocock's engineering skills: /grill-me interrogates requirements to align on intent, then a spec-and-ticket flow, TDD, code review and domain modeling. Small, composable skills, listed in the official Claude Code plugin marketplace.

PubMed plugin from Anthropic's life sciences marketplace: connects to the US National Library of Medicine's remote MCP to search biomedical literature and research papers. No account needed.

Quant trading plugin from the wshobson/agents marketplace: quant analyst and risk manager subagents plus backtesting and risk metrics skills for strategy backtests, portfolio optimization and risk measures like VaR, Sharpe ratio and max drawdown. Needs local Python; not investment advice.

Builds the month-end accrual schedule: calculates each accrual for the period under company policy, notes the basis and drafts journal entries; drafts only, never posts, for controller review. A skill in Anthropic's official fund-admin plugin; supply your accrual policy list and GL data.

For preclinical life sciences research: bundles MCP connectors for PubMed, bioRxiv, ChEMBL, Open Targets, ClinicalTrials and more, plus analysis skills for single-cell RNA QC, scvi-tools and nf-core pipelines. Official from Anthropic; some data sources need accounts.

Turns a feature idea or problem statement into a structured spec or PRD with goals and non-goals, user stories, success metrics and acceptance criteria, and can split large requests into phases. From Anthropic's official product-management plugin.

Finance and accounting plugin: prepares journal entries, reconciles accounts, generates income statements, runs variance analysis, manages month-end close and supports SOX audit testing. Can pull data from ERPs and data warehouses. Official from Anthropic.

Account reconciliation following accounting methodology: GL to subledger, bank reconciliations and intercompany balances, with reconciling items categorized, aged and escalated. Part of Anthropic's official finance plugin; results need professional review.

Parses a PRD into a dependency-aware task list so Cursor, Claude Code and other coding agents break it down, implement it and track progress; also works as a CLI. Needs at least one model API key, or reuse a Claude Code or Codex CLI login.

Simon Willison's LLM CLI and Python library: call OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and local models from the terminal, with conversations logged to SQLite automatically, plus embeddings, structured extraction, tool calling and a plugin system.

OpenAI's official Codex plugin that guides sequencing analysis from BCL/FASTQ: QC, RNA-seq differential expression, single-cell, variant calling and metagenomics, favoring nf-core and other public pipelines with reproducible run logs. Checks for local tools first. Research use only.

Economics writing skill built on 50+ guides (Cochrane, McCloskey and others): shapes abstracts, introductions and conclusions by paper type and 13 identification strategies such as DiD, IV and RDD, simulates three referee scores and flags citations to verify.

Helps teachers prepare to teach an existing K-12 lesson: walk through the key student tasks together and leave a short teacher prep note. Works for math, English language arts, science and social studies. Official Anthropic skill.

Connects Stata to VS Code or Cursor and exposes a local MCP endpoint so Claude Code or Codex can write and run do-files and read regression output, with graphs shown in the editor; for empirical research. Needs a licensed Stata 17+, the extension installed and the editor open.

Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images, audio and more into Markdown that keeps headings, lists and tables, ready for LLMs to read and analyze. Maintained by Microsoft; requires Python 3.10+.

Has the agent commit to a visual direction before building or redesigning an interface, making deliberate choices on color, type and layout instead of generic, templated AI UI. Official Anthropic skill.

Guides agents in building quality MCP servers: research the protocol and target API, design tools, implement with Python (FastMCP) or the TypeScript SDK, and write evaluation questions to test the result. Official Anthropic skill.

Creates, reads and edits PowerPoint decks: applies templates and layouts, handles speaker notes and comments, and merges or splits slides. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

Multi-agent investment research framework where fundamental, sentiment, news and technical analysts, bull and bear researchers, a trader and risk managers debate a stock and produce a report and rating. Covers US, Hong Kong and A-shares. Needs Python and an LLM API key; not investment advice.

Helps agents build frontends that don't look templated: picks a design direction first, then tunes layout variance, motion intensity and information density. Also includes redesign audits, minimalist and brutalist styles, and design reference generation.

Microsoft's cross-browser end-to-end testing framework: one API drives Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, npx playwright test runs tests in parallel and isolation, with auto-waiting and trace replay for debugging failures.

Frontend design polish skill: one skill with 24 commands such as polish, audit, critique and typeset, plus 61 deterministic rules that catch typical AI-generated UI problems, with live iteration in the browser. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others.

Parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images and audio, recovering layout, reading order, tables and formulas, and exports Markdown, HTML or lossless JSON. Started by IBM Research, now hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation; runs fully locally.

Open-source agentic video production: open Claude Code or Codex in the cloned repo, describe the video, and the agent handles research, script, voiceover, footage, subtitles and editing, confirming storyboard and cost first. Needs Python, Node.js and FFmpeg; free assets work without API keys.

Flags and rewrites AI-sounding text using 25 patterns drawn from Wikipedia's 'Signs of AI writing', keeping the meaning without inventing facts. Give it a writing sample to match your own voice.

Edits and refreshes existing marketing copy in seven sweeps: clarity, voice, value, proof, specificity, emotion and objection handling, keeping the meaning and author's voice. Can also audit and update stale pages. Complements the copywriting skill; from marketingskills.

AI search optimization (AEO/GEO) skill from the marketingskills collection: checks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite your content and suggests rewrites and structure that AI can extract and cite more easily, including llms.txt and structured data.

Lets agents control and inspect a real Chrome: read the console and network requests, take screenshots, and record performance traces with optimization suggestions. Maintained by the Chrome DevTools team.

End-to-end academic paper plugin: deep research and literature review, writing, multi-perspective simulated peer review, revision and finalization, pausing for your approval at each stage, with built-in citation verification and integrity checks. Licensed CC BY-NC.

Systematic literature reviews following PRISMA and similar standards: searches PubMed, arXiv, bioRxiv and other databases, verifies each citation's DOI, and outputs Markdown and PDF in APA, Nature or other styles. Main web search uses parallel-cli and needs a Parallel account.

Teaches agents standard single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Scanpy: QC, normalization, PCA/UMAP, clustering, differential expression and plots, with ready-to-run pipeline scripts and guidance on converting Seurat and other R objects to h5ad. Needs Python 3.12+; by K-Dense.

Guides agents to the right statistical method for research data: t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, regression and Bayesian analysis, checking assumptions, computing effect sizes and power, and reporting results in APA format. Python-based (pingouin, statsmodels); by K-Dense.

Microsoft's open-source AI quant investment research platform: the qrun command runs dataset building, model training, backtesting and evaluation from a YAML config, with many benchmark models. The official dataset is paused, so prepare market data per the README first.

Design engineering skills by Emil Kowalski, author of Sonner and Vaul: choose animation easing and durations, review and improve motion, apply Apple design principles, make web apps feel native on phones, and help pick UI libraries and prototype multiple versions.

Browser automation CLI built for AI agents in native Rust: open pages, click and fill forms by refs from accessibility tree snapshots, read text and take screenshots, with compact snapshots and output limits to save context. From Vercel Labs; reuses local Chrome or installs one.

In-process analytical SQL database. Its CLI queries CSV, Parquet and JSON files directly with SQL, no import or server needed, so agents can sample and aggregate large files. Officially maintained.

Official Anthropic skill for cleaning messy Excel exports: trims spaces, standardizes case and dates, converts text numbers, dedupes, and flags mixed types, garbled text and errors. Keeps originals via helper-column formulas and confirms each step. Works in Claude for Excel; local files need Python.

Official Anthropic finance skill that checks Excel for formula errors like #REF!, numbers hardcoded in formulas, sum ranges that miss rows and mixed units; on full models it also checks the balance sheet balances and cash ties. Lists issues and fixes and asks before changing anything.

Adds a searchable, copyable text layer to scanned PDFs, with automatic deskew, rotation and size optimization, outputting PDF/A by default. Built on Tesseract, supports 100+ languages and runs fully locally.