Tools

Semi-automated research workflow for computer science and AI researchers: ideation, Zotero literature management, experiment analysis and reports, paper writing and polishing, and rebuttals, with optional Obsidian knowledge base. 40+ skills; also installable as a Claude Code plugin.

Design engineering plugin for product interfaces such as admin panels and dashboards: builds UI on design principles and saves spacing, color and hierarchy decisions to .interface-design/system.md to stay consistent across sessions. Not meant for marketing pages.

Lossy PNG compression CLI: converts images to 8-bit PNGs that keep transparency, usually 60-80% smaller, with batch processing and a quality range setting. Handy for slimming down web assets, slides and article images. Install via Homebrew on macOS; no account.

Lets agents generate production-ready Lottie animations (icon motion, loaders, data animations and more) from a text description or SVG, with a local player for live preview and tweaks. Export JSON for web, apps or After Effects. Needs Node.js locally.

High-quality GIF encoder built on pngquant: turns video frames or PNG sequences into animations, using cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering for thousands of colors per frame. Can take video piped straight from ffmpeg.

From the FinanceToolkit author: computes ratios, valuation, risk and macro indicators with 500+ transparent formulas, for company comparisons and first-pass due diligence. Hosted, no install; enter a Financial Modeling Prep key on first connect (free tier: US stocks, 5 years). Verify results.

macOS screen capture, accessibility-tree inspection and native UI automation, served over MCP so agents can see the screen and click, type and operate menus. Requires macOS 15+ with Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions granted.

macOS screenshot and UI automation CLI: capture the screen, read the accessibility tree for structured UI elements, then click, type, and switch windows and menus. Also runs as an MCP server for Claude Code and Codex. Needs macOS 15+ with Screen Recording and Accessibility permissions.

Detects shot changes in video and splits long footage into scenes, exporting cut lists and per-scene thumbnails, useful for shot analysis, organizing footage and finding edit points. Runs locally; needs Python 3.10+, plus FFmpeg or mkvmerge for splitting.

LM Studio's official CLI: list, load and unload local models, start and stop the local API server, and check status and logs; ls, ps and other commands support --json output for scripts and agents. Requires the LM Studio desktop app.

Lingo.dev's official CLI: lingo push sends JSON, YAML, Markdown, PO, XLIFF, Android/Xcode strings and other files from your repo to its LLM localization engine, and lingo pull brings translations back; CI-ready. Needs a Lingo.dev account; usage-based pricing with a free sandbox.

From Callstack: lets coding agents drive and verify iOS, Android, HarmonyOS and desktop apps through accessibility snapshots, with taps, form filling, screenshots, logs and performance sampling, plus a built-in MCP server. Requires Node.js 22.12+.

From Callstack: lets coding agents inspect, operate and verify apps on iOS, Android and HarmonyOS simulators and real devices, reading accessibility snapshots, taking screenshots and recordings, and capturing logs and performance data. Ships both a CLI and a built-in MCP server.

Font toolkit: pyftsubset subsets fonts to the characters you use and outputs WOFF2 to shrink web fonts, and ttx converts fonts to editable XML for inspection and edits. Needs Python 3.11+ and the woff extra for WOFF2; check the license before subsetting commercial fonts.

Classic CLI for reading and writing metadata in hundreds of file types including images, video, audio and PDF, covering EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP and camera makers' proprietary tags, with batch editing, stripping and conversion. Requires Perl.

Generates hand-drawn-style Excalidraw diagrams (.excalidraw files you can keep editing on excalidraw.com) from text, choosing fan-out, timeline or convergence layouts by how concepts relate. Optional uv and Playwright let the agent render and check layouts; colors live in one file you can restyle.

CLI and TypeScript runtime for discovering and calling MCP servers from the terminal and scripts: list tool signatures and call tools directly, or generate a standalone CLI or typed client from a server. Auto-imports existing MCP configs from Claude Code, Codex and others.

Reads any website's design system in a headless browser and exports DTCG design tokens, Tailwind config, Figma variables and a brand guide in one command, scoring contrast and cross-page consistency. Also an MCP server or Claude Code plugin. Needs Node.js and Chromium or Chrome.

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.

Design token build tool: define colors, font sizes, spacing and other design specs in one JSON source, then style-dictionary build generates CSS, SCSS, iOS, Android and other platform code, keeping the design system and implementations in sync. Needs Node.js and a config.json.

Draws bar charts, histograms, line charts, scatter plots and box plots in the terminal from CSV/TSV on stdin, so you can glance at data distributions at the end of a shell pipeline. The command is uplot.

Lets agents manage Firebase projects: read and write Firestore and Realtime Database, manage Auth users, validate security rules, and check Crashlytics crashes and function logs. Maintained by Firebase; sign in to the Firebase CLI first.

Firebase's official CLI: deploy Hosting, Cloud Functions and security rules, run local emulators, read and write databases and import or export users. The same repo also provides the official Firebase MCP server. Requires a Firebase sign-in.

Teaches agents to write video prompts for ByteDance's Seedance 2.0: input limits, @ asset references and camera language, with templates for product ads, short dramas, dance, scenic clips, e-commerce and explainers, in English and Chinese. Prompts only; generate videos with your own account.