Tools

Official Firecrawl skill: drives the Firecrawl CLI to search, scrape, map site URLs, batch-crawl, interact with pages and monitor changes, returning LLM-ready Markdown. Search and scrape have a rate-limited free tier; crawling and monitoring need an account or self-hosted instance.

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.

Compares two versions of a LaTeX manuscript and produces a .tex that marks additions and deletions in color and strikethrough; compile it for a tracked-changes PDF to show reviewers, or diff versions from Git history. Ships with TeX Live and MiKTeX; needs Perl.

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.

Turns web pages, long PDFs, Word files, images or code into tutor-style study notes: Markdown notes plus searchable HTML knowledge cards with concept breakdowns and mind maps. Needs Python 3.8+, plus Chrome for some sites; the optional tutor chat needs an OpenAI-compatible API key.

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.

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.

Anthropic's official research skill built on Fischbach and Walsh's problem-selection framework (Cell): a conversational guide to refining project ideas, assessing risk and success criteria, unblocking stalled research and choosing directions. No setup or account needed.

Official BioRender plugin in Anthropic's life sciences marketplace: connects Claude Code to BioRender's scientific icons, templates and figures to find assets and make paper figures, lecture slides and talk graphics. Needs a free BioRender account; authorize it in /plugin after installing.

Plugin from Wiley in Anthropic's life sciences marketplace: connects the Scholar Gateway remote MCP for semantic search across Wiley's peer-reviewed journals, with answers carrying checkable citations and DOI links. Good for literature reviews. Needs a free Scholar Gateway account.

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.

DAIR.AI Academy lesson-planning plugin: from a topic or source material, builds an interactive mini-course of 6-8 lessons, each with goals, flashcards and a quiz, plus a final review, citing sources when you supply material. Output is local HTML; no server or account needed.

DAIR.AI learning plugin that turns YouTube lectures and talks into local study material: extracts slide frames, builds timestamped transcripts, and lets you take notes and review in a bundled web viewer. Needs Python, yt-dlp and ffmpeg.

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.

33 cognitive-science-based tutoring skills for K-12 math and science, exam prep, university subjects, academic writing and job interviews, using Socratic questions and spaced review rather than giving answers. In Chinese and English; copy the skills folder into your agent manually.

Research workbench that turns paper PDFs into a searchable library so Claude Code or Codex can find and close-read papers, draft reviews and manuscripts, answer reviewer comments and check citations. Imports from Zotero and EndNote. Needs Python 3.10+; an LLM API key is optional.

Converts between Markdown, Word, HTML, LaTeX, EPUB and more with Pandoc, exports PDF and PPTX, and can apply a Word template for consistent styling, handy for formatting manuscripts and handouts. Needs Pandoc and uv; PDF export also needs TeX Live.

Give it a YouTube video, web article or PDF link and it extracts the transcript or text, then builds a five-round Ship-Learn-Next action plan saved as Markdown, for self-study. Needs CLI tools such as yt-dlp and pdftotext; videos default to English subtitles.

Scores resumes line by line against a role's must-haves, nice-to-haves and dealbreakers, noting strengths, concerns and interview follow-ups, and can tier and rank a batch of applicants. No account needed; treat scores as a first pass and keep hiring decisions human and fair.

130+ office skills for contract review, NDAs, job descriptions, offer letters, invoices and expenses, meeting notes, email, and Excel, PowerPoint and PDF work. Writing skills work as-is; Airtable, Slack and other automations need those services. Legal and finance output needs expert review.

Drafts a formal offer letter from name, role, start date, pay, employment type and manager, with optional equity, bonus, benefits and background check terms. No account needed; follows US conventions (401(k), at-will), so have HR or legal review it before sending.