Tools

From ISCAS's Chinese Information Processing Lab: Claude Code or Codex write slides from your brief, render each page to check layout, and export an editable PPTX, for lectures and academic talks. Needs macOS, Linux or WSL with Python (uv), npm and LibreOffice; install per the README.

Gives agents Exa web search and page content fetching, with an optional multi-step research agent and advanced filtered search. Maintained by Exa; the hosted service works anonymously with limits, and signing in or adding an API key raises them.

CLI and TypeScript runtime for discovering and calling MCP servers from the terminal and scripts: list tool signatures and call tools directly, or generate a standalone CLI or typed client from a server. Auto-imports existing MCP configs from Claude Code, Codex and others.

Empirical social science skills from Stanford REAP and CoPaper.AI, bundling 77 in-house and third-party collections: topic selection, literature reviews, DID/RD/IV identification, regression tables in Python, Stata or R, robustness audits and paper writing. Stata flows need Stata installed.

Draws bar charts, histograms, line charts, scatter plots and box plots in the terminal from CSV/TSV on stdin, so you can glance at data distributions at the end of a shell pipeline. The command is uplot.

English prose linter that turns usage guides such as Garner's and advice from great writers into rules, flagging clichés, redundancy, bad comparisons and usage errors line by line, with JSON output for agents. Runs locally with Python; English only.

Stores agent memory as local Markdown notes that both people and AI can read, write, search and link, and you can open them directly in Obsidian. Local-first, open source and free, with a paid cloud sync option.

Uses Obsidian's community Local REST API plugin so agents can list, read, search, append to and delete notes, and insert content at a heading, block reference or frontmatter field. Install that plugin and configure its API key first.

Teaches agents to code against the latest Gemini API and Python/TypeScript SDKs: multi-turn chat, function calling, structured output, and image and speech generation, while avoiding deprecated older models. Maintained by Google's Gemini team.

Gemini API development skills: gemini-api-dev (core API and SDKs), gemini-live-api-dev (real-time bidirectional audio/video streaming) and gemini-omni-flash-api (Omni video generation and editing), filling in APIs released after model training cutoffs. Maintained by Google's Gemini team.

Builds Markdown and Jupyter notebooks into online textbook sites with a TOC, math, citations and cross-references, plus publication-quality PDF export; popular for course notes. A Jupyter subproject installed via pipx or npm; PDF export needs Typst or LaTeX.

Hugging Face's official hf CLI: search, download and upload models and datasets, manage repos and storage buckets, and run jobs on Hugging Face's cloud. Output adapts automatically for agents, and hf skills add installs companion skills. Uploads and similar actions need a login.

NVIDIA's official, verified catalog of hundreds of skills covering CUDA-X libraries, NeMo training, NIM and Dynamo inference, RAG blueprints, Jetson, Omniverse and robotics simulation. The install adds only nvidia-skill-finder, which recommends other skills and installs them once you confirm.

NVIDIA's official plugin that finds and installs the right skills from NVIDIA's catalog for your task, spanning CUDA acceleration, NIM inference, NeMo training, RAG blueprints, Omniverse simulation and robotics. Listed in both the Claude and Codex official marketplaces.

Fast Rust toolkit for tabular data with nearly 80 subcommands for querying, stats, cleaning, validation, joins and format conversion on CSV and Excel. Also offers an MCP server and a Claude Cowork plugin.

Visualization skills for Obsidian that turn text into Excalidraw hand-drawn diagrams, Mermaid charts and Obsidian Canvas mind maps. Marked experimental by the author; the Excalidraw skill needs the matching Obsidian plugin.

Thesis workflow for undergrad and grad students: Q&A to settle topic and outline, then chapter drafting, literature reviews, pre-submission self-review and AI-tone polishing, with modules for law, medicine and social sciences. Outputs Markdown or compilable LaTeX; won't fabricate citations.

Learns your domain and working style over a few rounds of conversation, then generates a personalized Markdown knowledge system (folders, note templates, processing pipelines, hooks and maps) so agents remember knowledge across sessions. First setup takes about 20 minutes and is token-heavy.

AWS's generally available agent toolkit and plugin marketplace: plugins such as aws-core, aws-agents and aws-data-analytics bundle the AWS MCP Server with evaluated skills for IaC, serverless, containers and billing. Calling AWS APIs requires configured credentials.

MCP server from the opengeos GeoAI project: segment buildings, roads and vegetation in satellite imagery from text prompts, detect vehicles and ships, spot changes between images, estimate canopy height and fetch NAIP, Sentinel-2 and Landsat imagery. Install from the repo (Python 3.10+).

PostgreSQL MCP server with database health checks, index tuning, EXPLAIN plan analysis and hypothetical index simulation, plus safe read-only SQL execution in restricted mode.

About 40 research skills from Google DeepMind: search arXiv, PubMed and OpenAlex, query UniProt, PDB, ClinVar, ChEMBL and more, run AlphaGenome variant analysis and render structures in PyMOL. Requires uv; AlphaGenome needs an API key, and keys raise limits for OpenAlex, ClinVar and others.

Teaches agents to build, debug and review stateful AI agents with the Cloudflare Agents SDK: state sync, scheduled tasks, RPC, MCP servers, email and streaming chat, checking the latest official docs first. Maintained by Cloudflare.

Framework for writing data transformation models in SQL or Python, with a Terraform-like plan/apply flow, virtual data environments, unit tests and table diffs, and transpilation across 10+ SQL dialects. A Linux Foundation project and an alternative to dbt.