Tools

Web search and page reading for agents through a self-hosted or trusted SearXNG metasearch instance, with no paid search API key. Requires a SearXNG instance with JSON output enabled.

Turns a paper (title, DOI, arXiv ID or local PDF) into a structured Obsidian note covering the research question, method, key formulas, figures and limitations; can read local Zotero items first and includes a glossary-card skill. Needs Python 3.10+ and PyMuPDF.

Pulls new papers from Hugging Face Daily Papers and arXiv, scores them by research area into a recommendation page, and writes deep-read Obsidian notes for key ones; can also batch-read Zotero collections. Needs Python 3, Obsidian and poppler; copy the whole skills folder per the README.

MathWorks' official toolkit for reading, building, modifying and testing Simulink models via the MATLAB MCP server, with skills for control design, Simscape, code generation and compliance checks. Needs licensed MATLAB R2023a+ and Simulink; run the official installer in MATLAB first.

LangChain's official skill collection: framework selection, quickstarts, middleware, persistence, human-in-the-loop approval, RAG and eval design across LangChain, LangGraph and Deep Agents, in Python and TypeScript. Also installable as a Claude Code plugin. Still in early development.

Connects agents to live Jupyter notebooks: read, write, insert and execute cells and read multimodal outputs like charts, for interactive data analysis. Bring your own JupyterLab or JupyterHub; open source, maintained by Datalayer.

Breaks a rough explanation idea into a scene-by-scene storyboard, then writes animation code following best practices for Manim Community or 3Blue1Brown's ManimGL, for math and physics explainers in class demos and educational videos. Needs Python, FFmpeg and LaTeX installed locally.

MathWorks' official toolkit: set up the MCP server via the MATLAB installer so agents can run code, run tests and do static checks; domain skill sets for signal processing, controls, statistics and machine learning install as Claude Code plugins. Needs MATLAB R2021a+.

Microsoft's official local MCP server for creating and editing Power BI semantic model tables, measures and relationships in natural language, running and validating DAX queries, and bulk renaming and translation. Connects to Power BI Desktop, Fabric or PBIP files; in public preview.

A Zotero 7 plugin with a built-in MCP server: agents search your local library (title, author, tags, full text), read PDF full text, abstracts, notes and highlights, and create notes and tags. Needs Zotero desktop with the plugin enabled; semantic search needs OpenAI or Ollama embeddings.

The standard machine translation scorer: computes BLEU, chrF and TER with significance tests and downloads public test sets such as WMT, to compare engines or prompts. Needs Python 3.9+ and reference translations; automatic metrics are a rough screen, so final copy still needs human review.

Experimental open-source generative media MCP servers from Google Cloud: Nano Banana images, Veo video, Gemini TTS and Chirp voices, Lyria music, and AVTool for compositing. Each registers separately; needs a billing-enabled Google Cloud project and gcloud login; AVTool needs FFmpeg.

Pre-submission review for CS conference papers (CVPR, ACL, NeurIPS and more): polish, translate or condense on request, or let AI reviewers raise issues and a jury rule on them. Only wording fixes are drafted, with your approval; missing experiments go back to you, never invented. Needs Node.js.

Connects Rhino 8 and Grasshopper to agents: model in plain language, edit geometry and layers, measure areas and volumes, and build Grasshopper definitions, for architecture and product design. Install the rhinomcp plugin in Rhino, run mcpstart, and have uv installed. Unofficial (not McNeel).

Plain-text spaced repetition: Q&A and cloze cards live in Markdown files, agents can draft decks from notes or textbooks and validate them with hashcards check, and hashcards drill runs FSRS reviews in your browser. Install with cargo or grab a macOS, Linux or Windows release.

Creates and edits local CapCut (JianYing) drafts from the terminal: rough cuts on silence, styled subtitles and multilingual versions, still editable track by track in CapCut. Needs Node 18+ and desktop CapCut; subtitles need Whisper, translation an Anthropic key. No encrypted drafts. Unofficial.

Lets agents query Google Ads accounts, campaigns and performance data with GAQL; currently read-only tools only. Maintained by Google; needs Google Cloud credentials and Google Ads API access.

Connects the QGIS desktop GIS to Claude: create and save projects, load vector and raster layers, run Processing toolbox algorithms, export maps and execute PyQGIS code through chat. Needs QGIS 3 and uv; download the repo, copy the plugin into QGIS's plugin folder and start the server.

Alibaba Cloud's official CLI (aliyun): manage ECS, OSS and other services through OpenAPI, with structured output, JMESPath filtering, waiting on resource states, product plugins and a built-in MCP proxy. Configure credentials first; OAuth sign-in works locally.

Google's official Gemini CLI extension with a built-in MCP server: Nano Banana image generation and editing, photo restoration, icons, textures, step-by-step storyboards and diagrams. Needs Node.js and a Gemini API key; for Claude Code or Codex, clone and build the repo first.

Turns ComfyUI workflows into MCP tools with no code, covering generation and conversion across text, image, speech and video; works with local ComfyUI or RunningHub in the cloud. Start the server with uvx pixelle and configure an LLM first.

Cleans up BibTeX bibliographies: normalizes field formatting and indentation, sorts entries, merges or removes duplicates and strips chosen fields, rewriting the .bib in place or printing to stdout; also works as a pre-commit hook. Needs Node.js.

Open-source video translation and dubbing: transcribes lectures, courses and other videos, translates them into one of 33 languages, synthesizes a dub aligned to the picture, and can export SRT subtitles. Needs Python 3.10+, FFmpeg, the violin CLI and a pay-as-you-go Together AI API key.

A Pandoc filter that numbers figures, tables, equations and sections and builds cross-references, so numbering stays right when you write papers or reports in Markdown and convert to Word, PDF or HTML. Needs a matching Pandoc version; Homebrew on macOS installs a compatible Pandoc too.