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.

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.

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.

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.

14 social media skills: audience and content pillars, posting calendars, platform-specific posts, threads, carousel scripts and captions, and analytics on what drives follower growth. For LinkedIn, X, Threads, Instagram and more; connect the BlackTwist MCP to schedule posts directly.

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 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.

Shopify's official agent plugin: searches Shopify docs and API schemas, validates GraphQL, Liquid and UI extension code, and can manage stores through the Shopify CLI. Sends usage telemetry by default; it can be turned off.

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.

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.

SEO CLI and MCP server for agents: crawls your site for technical issues, uses Search Console data to rank fixes, and compares before and after. Needs Node.js 22+ and Google sign-in; keyword and competitor research needs paid data (DataForSEO, Semrush or Ahrefs).

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.

Reads an article or document, pulls out the key points and generates an illustration for each, plus an optional cover. Three styles (gradient glass, ticket, vector illustration) and 16:9 or 3:4 ratios for blogs, slides and social posts. Needs a Gemini API key and Python.

Lets agents send and read channel messages and DMs through your own Discord bot, and manage channels, roles, member timeouts and scheduled events, useful for running a community or player support on Discord. Create a bot in the Discord Developer Portal for a token; needs Docker.

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.

Fetches captions and transcripts for YouTube videos and Shorts, with language selection and fallback, optional timestamps and sponsor segments filtered by default. No API key for transcripts; the optional visual analysis tool needs a TwelveLabs API key and a direct video URL.