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Open-source toolkit widely used in localization: converts between PO, XLIFF, TMX, CSV, subtitle and other translation formats, counts words, runs 40+ translation checks with pofilter and extracts frequent terms with poterminology. Needs Python 3.11+.

Turns Manim animations into step-through slide decks: mark slide breaks in scene code, render, then present with manim-slides or export to HTML, PDF or PPTX, for math and science classes and talks. Scenes are Python (agents can write them); needs Manim, plus LaTeX for formulas.

Plotting skills for academic papers: bar, line, scatter, radar and other styles distilled from 9 real paper figures. Plot your own data in a chosen style as 300 dpi figures, or reproduce a matplotlib script from a paper screenshot. Needs local Python and matplotlib.

Sentry's official remote MCP: lets coding agents query errors, issues, stack traces and performance traces, and call Seer for root-cause analysis. Sign in with OAuth, or connect to self-hosted Sentry over stdio.

Companion skill to the User Interface Wiki: 152 rules in 12 categories, from motion, easing and exit animations to UI sounds, interaction laws, prefetching and typography, for writing or reviewing web UI code, with issues listed by file:line. Needs an existing web project and Node.js to install.

AWS Labs' official plugin marketplace: deploy-on-aws (architecture recommendations, cost estimates and IaC deployment), aws-serverless, aws-amplify, databases-on-aws, sagemaker-ai and more. AWS suggests Agent Toolkit for AWS for new projects.

Jina AI's official remote MCP: converts web pages and PDFs to Markdown, searches the web, arXiv, SSRN and images, and offers screenshots, reranking and semantic dedup. Reading tools work without a key (rate-limited); search and rerank need a Jina API key.

Runs SQL queries against ClickHouse and browses databases and table schemas, read-only by default; can also enable embedded chDB to query data directly in files and URLs. Maintained by ClickHouse.

Drives desktop Excel on Windows: refresh Power Query, build pivot tables and charts, evaluate DAX and run VBA while keeping existing formulas and formatting, so finance and admin staff can automate existing reports. Needs Windows, Excel 2016+ and Node.js; no macOS.

Lets agents drive a local Adobe After Effects: create compositions, add text, shape, solid and camera layers, and set keyframes and expressions, for batch intros, lower thirds and motion graphics. Needs After Effects 2022+ and Node.js; build from source and open the bridge panel in AE.

Lets agents drive a local Photoshop: remove backgrounds, retouch portraits, color grade, batch-watermark, and export or split carousels at social media sizes; multi-step edits undo in one step. Needs Photoshop and Node.js 18+. Unofficial; sends anonymous telemetry by default (opt-out).

Drives local Premiere Pro projects with 280+ operations: import, sequences, timeline cuts, transitions, effects, color, captions, audio ducking, export. Needs Premiere Pro 2020+, Node.js 20+ and the MCP Bridge (CEP) panel open; anonymous telemetry is on by default and can be turned off.

Intlayer's official MCP server: in projects using Intlayer, lets agents build dictionaries, fill in missing translations with AI, sync multilingual content with the Intlayer CMS and look up docs. Needs Node.js; AI translation needs your own LLM API key, CMS sync needs credentials.

From Vercel: discovers locally running Next.js 16+ dev servers and hands the runtime errors, routes and logs from their built-in MCP endpoint to the agent, and points the agent to docs matching your installed version.

Unofficial Yahoo Finance data tool with a yahoo-finance CLI, an MCP server and an agent skill: stock quotes, price history, financials, option chains and analyst ratings. Needs Node.js 22+, no API key. The API is unofficial and may change; for research only.

Microsoft's official skill: has the agent use Microsoft Learn docs to call Azure text and document translation, enforce glossaries, train Custom Translator models and troubleshoot quotas and errors. For localization teams building batch translation; needs an Azure account and Translator resource.

Calls image and video models such as FLUX, Veo and Seedance through inference.sh's belt CLI to generate images, video, avatars and voiceovers, plus guides for thumbnails, storyboards, press releases and social copy. Needs belt and a free inference.sh account; model calls are billed per use.

The Docling project's official MCP: converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint and more into structured documents with layout and table detection and OCR for scans, and lets agents build new documents paragraph by paragraph and export Markdown. Local mode needs Python and uv, or use your own Docling Serve.

Unbabel's machine-translation quality metric: comet-score rates translations per sentence and overall, XCOMET marks error spans and severity, and CometKiwi works without a reference. Good for spot-checking MT. Needs Python 3.8+; models download from Hugging Face, some need a license; GPU helps.

Enter a URL and get a single-page SEO audit report in HTML: checks title and meta description, H1, robots, sitemap, structured data and more, and lists priority fixes. Needs local Python; the full audit also needs a Google PageSpeed API key.

Interviews you on scope, pain points and brand tone, infers the visual language from existing styles, and builds five React UI variants on a temporary route with a feedback overlay. Iterates on feedback, then writes an implementation plan and deletes the temp files.

Skill pack for YouTube creators with 14 subcommands: channel audits, video SEO, retention-focused scripts, hooks, thumbnail briefs, content calendars, and Shorts and cross-platform repurposing. Works with data you provide; add a YouTube API key or DataForSEO for live data.

Shopify's official CLI: scaffold, develop locally and deploy Shopify apps, extensions, Functions and themes, and build and host Hydrogen custom storefronts. Requires Node.js.

dbt Labs' official skills: write and edit dbt models, add unit tests and docs, set up the MetricFlow semantic layer, debug failed jobs, and handle dbt version upgrades and cross-platform migrations. Most skills need dbt installed and an existing project.