Tools

Lets agents understand, explain and generate Max/MSP patches: look up official object docs, explain existing patches, and create and connect objects, for sound design and interactive music teaching. Needs Max 9+, Python, uv and npm; install from source and open the companion patch in Max.

Puts Claude in your incident channel: builds triage runbooks from past incidents, investigates alerts read-only and gives an evidence-backed first diagnosis while humans decide fixes, plus handoffs and status reports. Anthropic reference code, no longer maintained; needs Claude Team or Enterprise.

Firecrawl's official plugin: brings the Firecrawl CLI in as skills so Claude Code can search the web, scrape pages to Markdown, map site links or crawl whole sites. Install firecrawl-cli and set an API key first; self-hosting supported.

Lets agents manage Anki through AnkiConnect: create decks, make Q&A and cloze cards in bulk, search and edit notes and manage tags, for teachers and students studying vocabulary or exams. Needs Anki Desktop, the AnkiConnect add-on and Node.js; the repo also ships a Claude Code skill.

Renders a screen reader spec for a component directly in Figma: focus order plus per-state VoiceOver (iOS), TalkBack (Android) and ARIA (Web) property tables and announcements. Part of uSpec; reads the component .md spec from create-component-md and needs a Figma MCP and a configured template key.

Lets Claude drive Strudel.cc for live-coded music: generate and play drums, bass and melodies, with music theory helpers, audio analysis and MIDI import/export. Needs Node.js 22 and Playwright browsers; optional AI accompaniment needs a Gemini key or a signed-in Claude/Codex CLI. Unofficial.

Searches Unsplash's free high-res photos by keyword, color and orientation to find images for posters, articles, slides and designs. Needs a free Access Key from the Unsplash developer portal; clone the repo and run the Python server with uv.

MinerU's official MCP: parses PDF, Word, PowerPoint and images into Markdown via the mineru.net cloud API, keeping tables and formulas. The keyless Flash mode works out of the box; add a token for higher quotas and more formats.

Comet's official Opik MCP: query traces and spans of LLM apps in chat, log scores and comments, and manage datasets, experiments and prompt versions. Works with Opik Cloud (API key or browser sign-in) and self-hosted open-source Opik.

Implements, debugs or audits how a website behaves on iPhone and iPad in Safari or added to the Home Screen, and on Mac when added to the Dock: safe areas, status and address bar tinting, theme color, overlays, keyboard, manifest, icons, splash screens and installed navigation.

Posit's official R package connecting R to Claude Code and other agents: register your own R functions as tools and run them in your open R session, using its data. Out of the box it only switches sessions; add the btw package for docs lookup and data inspection tools. Requires R.

HeyGen's official CLI, built for agents like Claude Code and Codex: generate avatar presenter videos from a prompt or template, translate and dub videos, and synthesize speech, with JSON output. Good for batch training and product videos. Needs a HeyGen API key (usage-billed) or a Pro/Max plan.

Official Alibaba Cloud MCP: query logs, metrics and traces from SLS, CloudMonitor and ARMS, with time-series comparison and natural-language-to-SQL. Needs an AccessKey; some AI tools are billed per call. The install uses the Python version (main branch is now a Go binary).

Learning Commons' official remote MCP for its K-12 education knowledge graph: look up US state standards by code, break them into teachable skills, and trace math learning progressions to align lessons and quizzes. Needs a Learning Commons API key; mostly US standards, early access.

Microsoft Translator's translation quality tool: GPT scores each sentence using MQM error categories or a direct score; --list_mqm_errors shows error types and severity. Needs line-aligned source and target files, Python and an OpenAI or Azure OpenAI key (paid); a translator should still review.

Searches ZIM-format knowledge bases such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Stack Exchange offline: full-text search, read articles by section and follow links, even with no internet. Download .zim files from Kiwix first (hundreds of MB to tens of GB) into ~/zim-files, and install uv.

Official ChatPPT MCP from YOO-AI: generates slide decks from a topic, text or document, lets you change templates, colors, fonts and animations, writes speaker notes and downloads pptx. Closed-source cloud service; needs a yoo-ai.com API key; personal tokens are test-only with limited calls.

Official BibiGPT skill: hand agents YouTube, Bilibili, podcast or local audio and video to get summaries, timestamped transcripts, chapter notes and mind maps. Needs a BibiGPT account (free tier has daily limits) plus its desktop app (with the bibi CLI) or an API key.

Alibaba Cloud's official ops MCP: manage ECS, RDS, OSS, VPC and other resources in plain language, view CloudMonitor metrics, and analyze a project and deploy it to ECS. Needs an Alibaba Cloud AccessKey and uv.

Tencent Cloud's official CLI: call any Tencent Cloud API by product and action name to manage resources (e.g. tccli cvm DescribeZones), with multiple profiles, role credentials and JSON or table output for scripting. Needs a SecretId and SecretKey.

Connects to the St. Louis Fed's FRED database: search and pull 800,000+ macroeconomic time series (GDP, unemployment, inflation, interest rates) with built-in year-over-year and period-over-period changes. For macro research, investing and teaching. Needs a free FRED API key and Node.js.

Lokalise's official CLI (lokalise2) covering the Lokalise API v2: upload and download language files and manage keys, translations, screenshots, translation tasks and contributors. Needs a Lokalise account (paid, 14-day free trial) and an API token passed via --token.

Lets agents inspect Alibaba Cloud ACK clusters, run kubectl operations, query Prometheus metrics, control-plane and audit logs, and run resource diagnostics and health checks. Maintained by Alibaba Cloud; needs an AccessKey and cluster RBAC permissions.

Jenkins plugin that turns Jenkins itself into an MCP server: agents can list jobs, trigger and rerun builds, page through and search build logs, and view test results and SCM info. Hosted in the official jenkinsci organization; authenticates with a Jenkins API token over Basic auth.