Tools

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.

A macOS say-style text-to-speech CLI that uses ElevenLabs or 60db to speak text aloud or save it as audio (ElevenLabs supports streaming playback), and can list and switch voices. Needs an API key for the chosen service.

Resend's official MCP: lets agents send and receive email and manage contacts, broadcasts and sending domains. Use the hosted remote server with OAuth sign-in, or run the npm package locally with a Resend API key.

Postiz's official agent CLI: lets AI schedule posts to 28+ platforms such as X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, upload images and video, and check post and account engagement. Ships with skills and a Claude Code plugin. Needs Node.js and a Postiz account (cloud or self-hosted).

Official ClickHouse skills: best practices for schema design, primary keys, JOINs and inserts ranked by impact, advice on real-time architecture decisions, in-process SQL and pandas-compatible analysis with chDB, and local and cloud deployment workflows.

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.

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.

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.

Post-draft polishing skills for English LaTeX papers, Chinese theses (GB/T 7714) and Typst manuscripts: compile diagnostics, format and grammar checks, reference verification, reviewer-style assessment, cover letters and defense slides. Needs Python, uv and TeX Live; academic use only.

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.

Voice skills: TTS with subtitle timing, emotional character voices, translated dubbing, two-host news podcasts, sound effects and songs. Narration and podcasts work with local Kokoro or free voices; emotion, cloning, dubbing, effects and songs need a Noiz API key. Never clone voices to deceive.

68 trading and quant skills focused on crypto and DeFi: market and on-chain data, technical indicators, backtesting, position sizing and risk, prediction markets, and tax tools for cost basis and wash sales. Most need Python and data API keys (often free tiers); get expert review.

Third-party LSP plugin marketplace with 30+ language server plugins, including TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, C/C++, Vue, Svelte, Elixir and Haskell, covering more languages than the official set. Requires Claude Code 2.1.50+; install the language servers yourself.

Official Firebase skill: install and sign in to the Firebase CLI, create and switch projects, download app config files such as google-services.json, and set up the other Firebase skills for Auth, Firestore, Hosting and more.

Adds /learn commands to 30+ agents including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor: knowledge maps, layered Socratic explanations, quizzes and spaced review, with a visual learning dashboard. Geared to self-study of programming and other technical topics; needs Node.js 20+.

Official Firebase skills: CLI and project setup, Authentication, Firestore, Hosting and App Hosting, Data Connect, Remote Config, Crashlytics, AI Logic, and writing and auditing security rules. Most use the Firebase CLI and need a Firebase project.

Notion's official Claude Code plugin: bundles Notion's hosted MCP with four Cookbook skills (knowledge capture, meeting prep, research write-ups, spec to implementation) and slash commands for searching, creating pages, querying databases and creating tasks. OAuth sign-in.

Semantic search over past Claude Code, Codex and other agent sessions: indexes each conversation when it ends and recalls past discussions, decisions and trade-offs via MCP tools and a subagent. Embedding and search run locally. By the author of Superpowers.

Official Tavily skills: let agents search the web, extract page content, discover site URLs, crawl in bulk and run cited deep research through the Tavily CLI (tvly). Install the CLI first; search and extract have a limited no-login tier, other features need sign-in or an API key.

Lets agents work with Salesforce orgs authorized on your machine: SOQL queries, metadata deploy and retrieve, Apex test runs and permission set assignment, plus toolsets for LWC development. Maintained by Salesforce; authorize your org with the Salesforce CLI first.

Write a script, speakers and visuals in MulmoScript (JSON or YAML) and the mulmo command generates narration and images and assembles a video, podcast, slide deck or PDF, for explainer videos. Needs Node.js, FFmpeg and an OpenAI API key; other providers optional.

Microsoft Teams MCP open-sourced by Inditex: read messages in a set channel, start threads, reply and @mention members, and list members. Requires an Azure app registration and a Teams bot (usually with IT admin help); runs via Docker or Python 3.12 with uv.

Astronomer's official data engineering plugin: write Airflow DAGs to best practices, debug pipeline failures, trace data lineage, profile warehouse tables and migrate from Airflow 2 to 3, with a built-in Airflow MCP server and session hooks.