Tools

Firecrawl's official CLI: scrape, search, map and crawl sites and interact with pages in a browser from the terminal, with Markdown output; can also install companion skills for coding agents. Needs a Firecrawl account or API key, or point it at a self-hosted instance.

Searches about 30 biomedical sources, including PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, ClinVar and OncoKB, with one command syntax, covering literature, clinical trials, genetic variants, drugs and pathways. Ships as both a CLI and an MCP server.

Anthropic's official life sciences plugin marketplace: install MCP plugins such as PubMed, BioRender, Synapse, ChEMBL and 10x Genomics, plus research skills for single-cell RNA QC, Nextflow pipelines and scvi-tools. Some data sources need an account or subscription.

Redis's official MCP server: read and write strings, hashes, lists, streams, JSON and other data structures in natural language, with vector indexing and search and pub/sub. Bring your own Redis instance; runs via uvx.

Lets agents read dbt project models, lineage and Semantic Layer metrics, run build, run and test commands, and call the dbt platform Discovery and Admin APIs. Maintained by dbt Labs; Semantic Layer and platform tools need a dbt platform account.

Official DuckDB skills: query local or S3 CSV, Parquet, Excel and JSON files with SQL or plain language, attach databases, convert formats, analyze spatial data and look up documentation. Needs the DuckDB CLI; tested only on macOS and Linux.

Elastic's official skills teaching agents to use Elasticsearch and Kibana correctly: index design, ES|QL queries, search relevance tuning, dashboards, observability troubleshooting and security alert triage. Currently a technical preview.

Chroma's official MCP: lets agents create and manage collections, add documents, and retrieve them with vector search, full-text search and metadata filters. Connects to in-memory or local persistent stores, self-hosted instances or Chroma Cloud.

Official Sleek skill: lets agents design mobile app screens in Sleek, manage projects and take preview screenshots, then pull the design HTML and implement it in React Native or SwiftUI. Needs a Sleek account and API key; free accounts get one trial run, ongoing use needs a paid Pro plan.

Official FSFE command-line tool that checks every file in a project for copyright and license information per the REUSE spec, adds headers in bulk, downloads license texts and generates an SPDX bill of materials. Needs Python; have legal review the results.

Official ClickHouse skills: best practices for schema design, primary keys, JOINs and inserts ranked by impact, advice on real-time architecture decisions, in-process SQL and pandas-compatible analysis with chDB, and local and cloud deployment workflows.

Official ElevenLabs skills: text to speech, speech to text, sound effects and music generation, voice changing, vocal isolation, multilingual dubbing and building voice agents. Needs an ElevenLabs API key.

MCP server for the Lean 4 theorem prover: lets agents read proof goals, diagnostics and definitions and search theorems via LeanSearch and Loogle, helping mathematicians and students with formal proofs. Needs uv and the Lean toolchain; run it from the Lean project root.

Google's official security MCP servers for Google SecOps (Chronicle), SecOps SOAR, Google Threat Intelligence and Security Command Center: investigate alerts, hunt threats, look up IOCs and review cloud risks. Needs Google Cloud credentials or a VirusTotal API key.

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.

68 trading and quant skills focused on crypto and DeFi: market and on-chain data, technical indicators, backtesting, position sizing and risk, prediction markets, and tax tools for cost basis and wash sales. Most need Python and data API keys (often free tiers); get expert review.

Third-party LSP plugin marketplace with 30+ language server plugins, including TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, C/C++, Vue, Svelte, Elixir and Haskell, covering more languages than the official set. Requires Claude Code 2.1.50+; install the language servers yourself.

Appium's official MCP server: lets agents start sessions on Android and iOS emulators and real devices, locate elements, tap, type and take screenshots, and generate Java/TestNG test code. Needs the Android SDK or Xcode.

Official Firebase skills: CLI and project setup, Authentication, Firestore, Hosting and App Hosting, Data Connect, Remote Config, Crashlytics, AI Logic, and writing and auditing security rules. Most use the Firebase CLI and need a Firebase project.

Official Firebase skill: install and sign in to the Firebase CLI, create and switch projects, download app config files such as google-services.json, and set up the other Firebase skills for Auth, Firestore, Hosting and more.

Official Tavily skills: let agents search the web, extract page content, discover site URLs, crawl in bulk and run cited deep research through the Tavily CLI (tvly). Install the CLI first; search and extract have a limited no-login tier, other features need sign-in or an API key.

Astronomer's official data engineering plugin: write Airflow DAGs to best practices, debug pipeline failures, trace data lineage, profile warehouse tables and migrate from Airflow 2 to 3, with a built-in Airflow MCP server and session hooks.

Research guardrails for PhD students: reproduce arXiv papers, debug training anomalies with evidence, compare runs at matched epochs, check paper-code consistency, verify BibTeX, find literature gaps and predict reviewer comments. No MCP or extra dependencies; mostly for ML research.

Read and write Airtable bases: view table schemas, search, create and update records and add comments, handy for sign-up lists, project tracking, clients and content pipelines. Needs an Airtable account with a personal access token, and Node.js.