Tools

DAIR.AI Academy lesson-planning plugin: from a topic or source material, builds an interactive mini-course of 6-8 lessons, each with goals, flashcards and a quiz, plus a final review, citing sources when you supply material. Output is local HTML; no server or account needed.

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.

Writes human-sounding text for tweets, emails, articles, bios and READMEs: avoids a banned word list, rule-of-three and uniform sentence lengths, limits em dashes and exclamation marks, prefers concrete numbers and real names without inventing data or quotes, and matches the author's voice.

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.

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.

Official FSFE command-line tool that checks every file in a project for copyright and license information per the REUSE spec, adds headers in bulk, downloads license texts and generates an SPDX bill of materials. Needs Python; have legal review the results.

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.

130+ office skills for contract review, NDAs, job descriptions, offer letters, invoices and expenses, meeting notes, email, and Excel, PowerPoint and PDF work. Writing skills work as-is; Airtable, Slack and other automations need those services. Legal and finance output needs expert review.

Reviews employment agreements, NDAs, service agreements and other common contracts: flags risky clauses (unlimited liability, unilateral termination, auto-renewal), checks for missing terms and suggests edits to negotiate. US, EU, UK and China law. No account; have a lawyer review.

Open-source meeting connector that lets agents join Zoom, Teams or Google Meet as a participant, read the live transcript, chat and attendee list, and speak, e.g. to take meeting notes. Runs locally in Docker (image about 2.3 GB); transcription is local by default.

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).

Todoist's official MCP: lets agents find, create, update and complete tasks and projects and view to-dos by date. Use the hosted remote server with OAuth sign-in, or embed it as a tool library in your own AI app.

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.

Searches Airbnb listings and fetches details: filter by location, dates, guests, price and property type, and get amenities, house rules, location and direct links. No API key; runs locally via npx and respects robots.txt by default.

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.

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.

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.

Google's official security MCP servers for Google SecOps (Chronicle), SecOps SOAR, Google Threat Intelligence and Security Command Center: investigate alerts, hunt threats, look up IOCs and review cloud risks. Needs Google Cloud credentials or a VirusTotal API key.

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.