Tools

Codex-native version of Academic Research Skills: one skill chains topic selection and literature review, drafting, simulated peer review, revision guidance and experiment planning, with citation verification and integrity checks. For grad students and faculty. Needs Codex; CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Plugin marketplace for AI research with nearly 100 skills in 23 categories, from ideation, fine-tuning and post-training to distributed training, inference serving, evaluation and paper writing, coordinated end to end by the autoresearch skill.

Command-line framework for warehouse modeling and ELT transformations: write models in SQL and let dbt handle dependencies, data tests and documentation. v2 is rewritten in Rust as a single binary. Maintained by dbt Labs; needs a data warehouse connection.

MiniMax's official Excel skill: read, analyze, create, edit and validate xlsx files and fix broken formulas. Edits existing files at the XML level to keep formatting, formulas and pivot tables; writes results as formulas with finance-style color coding. Needs Python (pandas); LibreOffice optional.

PostgreSQL command-line client with smart autocompletion and syntax highlighting. Compatible with psql environment variables, and -c runs a statement and exits, so agents can query databases non-interactively.

Turns Markdown outlines into interactive HTML mind maps you can collapse and zoom, with inlined assets for offline use and a watch mode that refreshes live. Good for mapping requirements, lesson planning and organizing knowledge.

Simon Willison's LLM CLI and Python library: call OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and local models from the terminal, with conversations logged to SQLite automatically, plus embeddings, structured extraction, tool calling and a plugin system.

Converts text to speech with Microsoft Edge's online TTS service and can generate subtitle files at the same time. No API key needed, with voices for many languages. Not an official Microsoft project and depends on that online service staying available.

Document layout skill by tw93 with eight templates (resume, one-pager, long doc, formal letter, portfolio, slides, research report and more) that render polished PDF, PNG or editable PPT and check layout and content gaps. Supports English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Needs Python (WeasyPrint).

Twelve research skills from Prof. Yuyu Luo's team at HKUST (Guangzhou), built on a decade of top-venue publishing and reviewing: idea evaluation, intro and body writing, polishing, surveys, pre-submission review, figures, Draw.io rebuilds and rebuttals. Non-commercial license.

Connects to the Arize Phoenix observability platform so agents can query LLM traces and sessions, manage prompts, browse datasets and read experiment evaluation results. Maintained by Arize; needs a self-hosted or cloud Phoenix instance.

ByteDance's open-source, general software engineering agent: trae-cli edits files and runs commands from natural language, supports multiple model providers and MCP, and records full execution trajectories. Transparent design suits agent research and customization. Needs your own model API key.

Design engineer Jakub Krehel's 11 UI skills: targeted fixes for typography, color, layout, accessibility and UI copy, plus full interface reviews, animation teardowns, component state stress tests and multi-variant generation. Works on web project code; installing needs Node.js.

MySQL terminal client with smart autocompletion and syntax highlighting, also compatible with MariaDB and TiDB. Supports --execute and batch mode with CSV or table output, so agents can run SQL directly.

Open-source AI presentation generator that builds slides from a topic or uploaded documents and exports PPTX or PDF, with a built-in MCP endpoint for agents. Good for lesson decks and reports. Self-host with Docker and configure an LLM API key, then have an admin create an MCP key.

MiniMax's official prompt skill for the Hailuo H3 video model: rewrites video ideas into H3's structured prompt format for text-to-video, first/last frame and full-reference modes, covering visuals, sound effects and music. Docs only; generate videos on Hailuo web, the MiniMax API or a local model.

Scans files and directories for personal data such as names, emails and credit card numbers using Presidio Analyzer, with configurable entity types, confidence thresholds and ignore rules. Needs Python 3.10+ and a spaCy language model.

Fast, memory-efficient image processing library with a vips CLI for batch resizing, cropping, rotating, format conversion (WebP, AVIF, HEIC, TIFF and more) and thumbnails, handling very large images smoothly. Good for design and media teams processing assets in bulk. Install with Homebrew on macOS.

Publishes SQLite databases as browsable, queryable web pages and JSON APIs, with SQL queries, metadata and plugins, and deploys to Cloud Run and other platforms with datasette publish. Great for data exploration and data journalism. Needs Python 3.10+.

Hugging Face's official skills: manage Hub models and datasets with the hf CLI, fine-tune language and vision models, run model evaluations, and build Gradio apps deployed to Spaces. Needs an HF account; cloud training on HF Jobs requires a paid plan.

Teaches agents the Hugging Face Hub CLI hf: search and download models, manage datasets, Spaces, Buckets and repos, and run Jobs and inference endpoints. The skill content is generated from your local CLI, so install hf first. Maintained by Hugging Face.

Lets agents fine-tune language and vision models with TRL or Unsloth on Hugging Face Jobs cloud GPUs, supporting SFT, DPO, GRPO and reward models, and convert results to GGUF for local use. Requires an HF Pro or higher paid plan. Maintained by Hugging Face.

Lets agents work with the Hugging Face Hub through the hf CLI: search and download models and datasets, manage repos and Spaces, and run training and evaluation jobs on cloud GPUs, with more workflow skills installable as needed. Maintained by Hugging Face.

The official MCP debugging tool: connect to any MCP server through a web UI, CLI or terminal UI to list and call its tools, resources and prompts. CLI mode outputs JSON, suited to scripts and CI smoke tests.