Tools

General-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine, with a desktop app, CLI and API. Written in Rust, works with 15+ model providers and connects to 70+ extensions via MCP. Originally from Block, now part of the Linux Foundation's AAIF.

Design engineering skills by Emil Kowalski, author of Sonner and Vaul: choose animation easing and durations, review and improve motion, apply Apple design principles, make web apps feel native on phones, and help pick UI libraries and prototype multiple versions.

Agile AI-driven development method: analyst, product manager, UX designer and other role skills turn ideas into product briefs, PRDs and PRFAQs, then split them into tasks for agents. Needs a skills-capable agent such as Claude Code, plus Node.js, Git and uv; then run bmad setup.

C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model that transcribes audio offline and outputs subtitles. Runs on CPU, with Apple Silicon and various GPU acceleration. Download a ggml-format model first.

Expo's official CLI: starts the React Native dev server, runs prebuild to generate native folders, runs apps locally on iOS and Android, and installs version-compatible dependencies. Ships with the expo package; call it with npx expo inside a project.

Teaches agents to read and write Obsidian vaults: Obsidian-flavored Markdown, Bases data views, JSON Canvas and the Obsidian CLI, plus Defuddle web content extraction and Knap template rendering. Maintained by Obsidian CEO kepano.

Astral's extremely fast Python linter and formatter written in Rust, replacing Flake8, isort and Black, with 900+ built-in rules and auto-fix.

Package manager for macOS and Linux: agents can brew install CLI tools and desktop apps (casks), or use brew bundle to restore a dev environment from a Brewfile.

Terminal multiplexer: run multiple sessions and panes in one terminal, with processes surviving disconnects. Agents use it to host long-running tasks and drive interactive programs, and many parallel multi-agent session tools build on it.

Microsoft's open-source AI quant investment research platform: the qrun command runs dataset building, model training, backtesting and evaluation from a YAML config, with many benchmark models. The official dataset is paused, so prepare market data per the README first.

Official Anthropic plugin that builds a shareable status page for big multi-track projects such as migrations, launches or research: goals, workstream order, next steps and risks; say 'refresh' to update the same link. Needs a claude.ai login; Artifacts are a beta for Team and Enterprise plans.

Designs and builds MCP servers: first picks a deployment model among remote HTTP, MCPB bundles and local stdio, then guides tool design, auth and in-chat interactive components. Maintained by Anthropic.

Official Linear plugin in Anthropic's marketplace: connects the hosted Linear MCP to create and update issues, manage projects and states, and search across workspaces from chat. Needs a Linear account and OAuth authorization.

Connects Claude Code to the C# language server csharp-ls for code intelligence and diagnostics. Needs .NET SDK 6.0+; install csharp-ls first via dotnet tool or Homebrew. Official Anthropic plugin.

Connects Upstash's hosted Context7 remote MCP to fetch current, version-specific docs and code examples for libraries on demand, reducing outdated or invented APIs. No local Node needed; works anonymously, and an API key raises limits. Maintained by Upstash.

Creates or improves Agent Skills from scratch: writes eval cases to test them, runs benchmarks with variance analysis, and tunes descriptions for more accurate triggering. Maintained by Anthropic.

Connects Claude Code to JetBrains' Kotlin language server so the agent can go to definitions, find references and inspect symbols in .kt and .kts files. Install kotlin-lsp first (Homebrew works). Official Anthropic plugin.

Official Asana plugin in Claude's plugin marketplace: connects Claude Code to the Asana V2 MCP server to create and manage tasks, search projects, change assignees and track progress. Create your own Asana OAuth app first, then run /asana-setup after installing.

Anthropic's official plugin marketplace, built into Claude Code by default, with 300+ official and partner plugins for development, security, design and office collaboration. Browse and install with /plugin.

Google's official Firebase plugin: starts the Firebase MCP via firebase-tools to manage projects, Firestore data, Auth users and security rules, and view Crashlytics and Cloud Functions logs. Needs Node.js and a Firebase CLI login.

Connects Claude Code to the clangd C/C++ language server for code intelligence, diagnostics and formatting. Install LLVM/clangd and add it to PATH first. Official Anthropic plugin.

Has the agent build single-file HTML interactive playgrounds: visual controls on one side, live preview on the other, and a prompt to copy back into Claude. Templates for design tuning, data exploration, concept maps, doc annotation, code review and architecture diagrams. By Anthropic.

Connects Claude Code to the Pyright language server for static type checking and code intelligence in Python. Install pyright first with npm, pip or pipx. Official Anthropic plugin.

Connects Claude Code to the Eclipse JDT.LS language server so the agent can go to definitions, find references and inspect symbols in Java code. Needs JDK 17+ and jdtls installed first. Official Anthropic plugin.