Tools

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 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.

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.

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 deploy a local folder or file contents straight to Google Cloud Run, list services and view their details and logs, and list or create GCP projects. Maintained by Google; sign in with gcloud and set up Application Default Credentials first.

Railway's official CLI: deploy with railway up and manage infrastructure config, with token auth for non-interactive CI runs. The installer can set up the Railway skill and MCP for Claude Code, Codex and others in one step. Needs a Railway account.

Official Docker skills: containerize projects, optimize and harden Dockerfile builds, orchestrate with Compose, use Docker Sandboxes and Docker Agent, with confirmation guardrails before deletes and other destructive actions.

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.

Manage Argo CD in natural language: list and inspect applications, create, update and delete them and trigger syncs, and view resource trees, workload logs and events. Maintained by Argo Project Labs; needs your Argo CD URL and an API token, with an optional read-only mode.

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 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.

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.

Paper review skills by economist Claes Bäckman: eight subagents simulate journal referees for a pre-submission report, plus quick checks, paper-code consistency checks, reviews of pre-analysis plans and grant proposals, and rewriting papers as policy briefs. Mainly for LaTeX manuscripts.

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.

Uses yt-dlp to pull YouTube subtitles into the agent, so asking it to summarize a video gets you the key points; handy for teachers prepping lessons, researchers and creators. No API key, but needs yt-dlp (Homebrew or WinGet) and Node.js.

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.