Tools

ScrapeCreators' official skills: mine public TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit and X data for viral content, customer voice in comments, competitor accounts and ad libraries, and creator vetting, with sourced reports. Needs a ScrapeCreators key (100 free credits, then pay as you go).

Google's official skills for building ADK agents: dev workflow, scaffolding, the ADK Python API, evaluation with LLM judges and adaptive rubrics, deployment to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run or GKE, publishing and observability. Works with agents-cli; local dev needs only an AI Studio key.

Posit's open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc: embed Python, R or Julia code in Markdown or Jupyter notebooks, then quarto render produces HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books.

Veteran command-line task manager with projects, tags, priorities, due dates and custom reports, JSON export, and a rich ecosystem of hooks and extensions, well suited for agents that record and track tasks.

Community-maintained MCP for Jira and Confluence: search with JQL/CQL and create or update issues, pages and comments. Supports both Cloud and Server/Data Center deployments; needs an API token or personal access token.

Full-featured Jira CLI: filter, create, transition, assign and link issues and manage epics and sprints, with --plain text output that agents can read. Works with Cloud and self-hosted Jira; set up an API token and run jira init.

Semi-automated research assistant for CS and AI researchers that links ideation, Zotero literature management, experiment analysis and reporting, paper writing and reviewer responses, and keeps project knowledge in Obsidian. Branches for Codex and other agents exist.

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.

Automatically cuts silent or static parts from video and audio based on loudness or motion, with adjustable margins and speed changes, and exports project files for Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro and other editors. The repo ships an agent skill.

draw.io's official MCP: opens XML, CSV or Mermaid diagrams generated by the agent directly in the draw.io editor, good for flowcharts and architecture diagrams. A no-install remote version can also render diagrams inline in the chat.

Turns any codebase into an interactive browser course: real code with plain-language explanations, animations, hover glossaries and scenario quizzes. Built for people who build software with AI but can't read code, and useful for intro programming classes. Needs only an agent and the repo.

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.

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.

Excalidraw's official MCP App: streams hand-drawn-style architecture diagrams and flowcharts into the conversation, with full-screen editing. Remote endpoint at https://mcp.excalidraw.com; requires a client that supports MCP Apps, such as Claude or ChatGPT.

Audits and rewrites AI-sounding prose: detects stock phrases using 70+ pattern categories and a tiered replacement word list, with detect-only, rewrite and in-place edit modes and optional voice settings. Rules are calibrated for English.

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.

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.

Local FFmpeg video editing skill: ask in plain language to cut and join clips, remove silence, reframe to vertical, add subtitles, normalize loudness and export to TikTok, Reels or YouTube specs, fully offline with no API key. Needs ffmpeg and Python 3; also usable as an MCP.

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.

Gives agents Exa web search and page content fetching, with an optional multi-step research agent and advanced filtered search. Maintained by Exa; the hosted service works anonymously with limits, and signing in or adding an API key raises them.

WordPress's official CLI: install and update plugins and themes, manage posts and users, import and export content, run database search-replace and configure multisite from the terminal, without opening wp-admin. Requires PHP 7.2.24 or later.

Mermaid's official CLI, mmdc: renders flowcharts, sequence diagrams and other Mermaid definitions to SVG, PNG or PDF, and can batch-convert mermaid code blocks in Markdown into images. Requires Node.js.

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.