Tools

Command-line reference and bibliography manager: add papers by DOI with metadata fetched automatically, search by author, title or tag, and import or export BibTeX. Each entry is a readable YAML file that agents can read and write easily; a web UI is included. Needs Python.

Generates product shots, marketing posters and illustrations, removes or swaps backgrounds, upscales and makes videos, with 1,400+ prompt templates and parallel variations. Cloud use needs a MeiGen account and paid credits; the npm version can use OpenAI-compatible APIs or local ComfyUI.

Turns secondary-school math and science problems into teaching materials: interactive geometry solution pages, 3D molecular views of chemical reactions, and math explainer videos with Chinese voiceover and bilingual subtitles (needs a Zhipu GLM-TTS key). Requires Python sympy.

From Harvard Medical School's Zitnik Lab: one MCP connecting 1,000+ scientific tools and databases for drugs and targets, genes and proteins, clinical trials, FDA data and PubMed, for biomedical and drug research. Runs with uv; some sources need API keys; medical conclusions need expert review.

Manages stacked branches and dependent pull requests with the gh stack GitHub CLI extension: splits work into layered branches with one PR each, then handles push, submit, sync, rebase and merge, using flags that keep commands non-interactive for agents. Official GitHub skill.

Official skill for BaoCut, a subtitle app by Baoyu: transcribe audio and video, generate and translate subtitles, check speakers, adjust timing and export SRT or finished video. Needs BaoCut on an Apple silicon Mac (macOS 14+); on Windows the skill fetches a preview CLI.

Translates a video's SRT subtitles into other languages and generates AI voice lines synced to the timings, producing translated subtitles and dubbed audio tracks. Needs Python, FFmpeg and Google Cloud, Azure, DeepL or ElevenLabs API keys; configure the ini files, then run python main.py.

Lets agents read and write your local Obsidian vault directly: search notes, append to daily notes, tidy tags and properties, and summarize reading or research notes by topic. No need to open Obsidian or install plugins; access is limited to the vault and can be read-only. Needs Node.js 20+.

Fly.io's official CLI (fly): sign in, create and deploy apps, and list apps and check their status, reading fly.toml in the current directory to identify the app. Needs a Fly.io account.

Econometrician Pedro Sant'Anna's academic Claude Code setup (fork the repo to use it): Beamer/Quarto lecture slides, paper review and mock refereeing, R/Python analysis and replication packages, with specialist subagents and quality gates. Needs Git and Python; slides need XeLaTeX and Quarto.

One plugin bundling skills and subagents for deep research, fixing GitHub issues and reviewing PRs, Codex handoff, Gemini or GPT image generation, translation and YouTube transcript extraction, plus settings.json templates for various providers (manual setup). Some skills need API keys.

Fixes spacing and full-width/half-width punctuation in mixed CJK and English text, understanding 28+ file types including Markdown, YAML and strings and comments in source code. Lint mode outputs a diff or JSON for CI checks on localized copy.

Microsoft's official Azure skill set: deployment prep and validation, deployment, production diagnostics, AKS, quota lookup, compliance audits, cloud migration and Foundry; the plugin version also connects the Azure MCP Server. Needs an Azure account and az login.

Microsoft's official Azure plugin: bundles 20+ skills such as azure-prepare, azure-deploy, azure-diagnostics and azure-cost, and connects the Azure MCP and Foundry MCP to query resources, estimate costs, deploy and troubleshoot. Needs an Azure subscription and az login.

Docker's official MCP gateway (the docker mcp CLI plugin): runs servers from the Docker MCP Catalog in isolated containers, manages secrets, OAuth and tool toggles centrally, and gives multiple clients one endpoint. Built into Docker Desktop 4.59+; Docker CE and other setups must build the plugin.

Reads and writes Obsidian vaults from the terminal: search, view, create, edit, move and delete notes, and manage frontmatter and daily notes, without Obsidian running. Good for agents maintaining a personal knowledge base. Formerly Obsidian CLI.

Uses unified rule files in a .rulesync directory as the source to generate rules, MCP, commands, subagents, skills and hooks configs for dozens of AI coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and Codex. Can also import existing configs or convert directly between tools.

MiniMax's official MCP: text-to-speech, voice cloning and voice design, text-to-image and video generation. Needs a MiniMax API key; the key and API host must belong to the same region (global or mainland China). Pay as you go.

Web search through DuckDuckGo plus fetching and parsing page content, with built-in rate limiting and LLM-friendly result formatting. No API key needed; runs with a single uvx command.

Brings the Brave Search API to agents: web, news, image, video and local business and place search, plus LLM-ready page context and AI summaries. Maintained by Brave; needs an API key.

Uses the Qdrant vector database as a semantic memory layer for agents: store information and retrieve it by meaning, connecting to a remote instance or a local path, with FastEmbed generating embeddings by default. Maintained by Qdrant.

Batch-normalizes audio and video loudness to standards like EBU R128, with presets for podcasts, music and streaming video; handy for evening out course recordings, podcasts and videos before publishing. Needs FFmpeg and Python 3.10+.

Sets up and audits i18n for React, Next.js and Vue apps: replaces hard-coded strings with message keys, checks that English and Chinese keys are complete and consistent, and verifies plurals and date and number formats, with a key audit script. Needs a local codebase and Python.

Audio plugin suite: transcription with local Qwen3-ASR or Whisper (MLX on Apple Silicon), speaker diarization, transcript correction, structured meeting notes and StepFun TTS. StepFun ASR and TTS need an API key.