Tools

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.

Community Playwright browser automation MCP from ExecuteAutomation (not Microsoft's official one): navigate, click, fill forms, screenshot and scrape page text, plus send HTTP requests, assert network responses and record actions into test code, with 143 device emulations built in.

GitHub's official gh extension for writing Actions workflows in Markdown that AI agents execute, compiled into standard Actions. Choose engines like Copilot, Claude Code or Codex; runs in a read-only sandbox by default. Requires gh.

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.

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.

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 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.

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+.

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.

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.

Runs Google Lighthouse across an entire site (sampling similar pages smartly) and summarizes SEO, performance and accessibility scores page by page in a local web UI; unlighthouse-ci writes reports directly for agents to read. Great for site-wide SEO checkups. Needs Node.js 22.18+.

Read-only mirror of the community plugin marketplace maintained by Anthropic, with 2,000+ community plugins that passed submission review and automated security scans, for Claude Code and Claude Cowork.

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.

Notion's official self-hosted MCP: uses an integration token to search, read and write pages and data sources, and can read and edit pages as Markdown. Notion now recommends its hosted Remote Notion MCP, and this repo is no longer actively maintained.

Microsoft's official Azure CLI (az) for managing VMs, storage, resource groups and other Azure resources, with JMESPath queries, table or JSON output and clear exit codes for scripting. Run az login first.

Moves files to the trash instead of deleting them, with commands to list, restore and empty trashed files, so anything an agent deletes by mistake can be recovered. Follows the FreeDesktop.org trash spec and shares the trash with GNOME and KDE.

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.

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.

Teaches agents to code against the latest Gemini API and Python/TypeScript SDKs: multi-turn chat, function calling, structured output, and image and speech generation, while avoiding deprecated older models. Maintained by Google's Gemini team.