Tools

From Dagger: gives each coding agent its own container and git branch so multiple agents work in parallel without interfering, with command logs and the ability to take over the terminal at any time. Connects via MCP; needs Docker and Git. Still experimental.

Hugging Face's official hf CLI: search, download and upload models and datasets, manage repos and storage buckets, and run jobs on Hugging Face's cloud. Output adapts automatically for agents, and hf skills add installs companion skills. Uploads and similar actions need a login.

Knownsec's open-source Python-use agent: describe a task in plain language and it writes and runs Python on your machine, e.g. tidying Excel files, summarizing attendance or screening resumes. Needs Python 3.11+ and a model API key such as DeepSeek; code runs locally, so back up important files.

NVIDIA's official, verified catalog of hundreds of skills covering CUDA-X libraries, NeMo training, NIM and Dynamo inference, RAG blueprints, Jetson, Omniverse and robotics simulation. The install adds only nvidia-skill-finder, which recommends other skills and installs them once you confirm.

NVIDIA's official plugin that finds and installs the right skills from NVIDIA's catalog for your task, spanning CUDA acceleration, NIM inference, NeMo training, RAG blueprints, Omniverse simulation and robotics. Listed in both the Claude and Codex official marketplaces.

Marp's official CLI: exports Markdown slide decks to HTML, PDF, PPTX or images, with watch mode and a preview server. PDF and PPTX export need Chrome, Edge or Firefox installed locally.

Open-source PDF table extraction with a camelot CLI: exports tables from financial reports, bank statements and statistical reports to Excel, CSV or Markdown, with an accuracy score. Needs Python 3.10+; handles text-based PDFs by default, scans need the ml and ocr extras. Double-check results.

Microsoft's official Azure MCP: one server covering dozens of Azure services, including Storage, Cosmos DB, AKS, App Service, Key Vault and Monitor, so agents can query and manage cloud resources. Sign in to Azure first.

Fast Rust toolkit for tabular data with nearly 80 subcommands for querying, stats, cleaning, validation, joins and format conversion on CSV and Excel. Also offers an MCP server and a Claude Cowork plugin.

One server connecting PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle and SQLite, exposing just two tools by default to save context, with read-only mode and SSH tunneling. From Bytebase.

View your agenda and search, create, edit and delete Google Calendar events from the terminal, with ICS invite import and scheduled reminders. You need to create your own Calendar API OAuth credentials in Google Cloud.

Browserbase's official skills: drive a local or cloud browser with the browse CLI for web scraping and search, turning site traffic into an OpenAPI spec, adversarial UI testing and competitor research. Cloud features need a Browserbase account.

Query Google Analytics 4 in natural language: read account and property info and run standard, funnel and realtime reports. Official from Google Analytics (experimental); requires Google Cloud Application Default Credentials.

Community plugin marketplace bundling hundreds of subagents, slash commands, hooks and skills by category, installable individually or all at once, with the buildwithclaude.com site for browsing community plugins and MCP servers.

Visualization skills for Obsidian that turn text into Excalidraw hand-drawn diagrams, Mermaid charts and Obsidian Canvas mind maps. Marked experimental by the author; the Excalidraw skill needs the matching Obsidian plugin.

Grafana's official MCP: search and edit dashboards, query Prometheus, Loki and other data sources, and view alerts, incidents and OnCall schedules to help with troubleshooting. Needs a Grafana URL and a service account token.

Thesis workflow for undergrad and grad students: Q&A to settle topic and outline, then chapter drafting, literature reviews, pre-submission self-review and AI-tone polishing, with modules for law, medicine and social sciences. Outputs Markdown or compilable LaTeX; won't fabricate citations.

Converts PDFs to editable Word files, keeping paragraphs, tables, images and layout as closely as possible, and can extract tables alone, handy when a contract or exam only exists as PDF. Needs Python; digital PDFs only, OCR scans first. No longer actively maintained by Artifex.

Plugin marketplace for investment research: six plugin groups covering yfinance market data, earnings previews and recaps, DCF valuation, option payoff charts, ETF premiums, read-only news from X, Discord and other social sources, and TradingView data. Research only, not investment advice.

Learns your domain and working style over a few rounds of conversation, then generates a personalized Markdown knowledge system (folders, note templates, processing pipelines, hooks and maps) so agents remember knowledge across sessions. First setup takes about 20 minutes and is token-heavy.

Works with Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Tasks, Chat and other Google Workspace services, with multi-user OAuth and read-only mode. You create your own Google OAuth client and run it in HTTP mode.

Searches Google Flights for flights and the cheapest travel dates, filtering by route, date, cabin, stops, airline and alliance, good for trip planning. Open-source Python, no API key needed; built on reverse-engineered Google endpoints, so changes at Google may break it.

PostgreSQL MCP server with database health checks, index tuning, EXPLAIN plan analysis and hypothetical index simulation, plus safe read-only SQL execution in restricted mode.

AWS's generally available agent toolkit and plugin marketplace: plugins such as aws-core, aws-agents and aws-data-analytics bundle the AWS MCP Server with evaluated skills for IaC, serverless, containers and billing. Calling AWS APIs requires configured credentials.