Tools

Command-line audio and video downloader supporting thousands of sites: pick formats and quality, grab subtitles and metadata, and merge or transcode with FFmpeg. The actively maintained fork of youtube-dl.

Converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, images, audio and more into Markdown that keeps headings, lists and tables, ready for LLMs to read and analyze. Maintained by Microsoft; requires Python 3.10+.

From Microsoft: converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and other files or URLs to Markdown so agents can read and search them. A single convert_to_markdown tool over STDIO or local HTTP.

Download and run open models such as Gemma locally with one command. Provides a REST API and Python/JS libraries, and ollama launch can point Claude Code, Codex and other agents at local models.

Guides the agent through writing or improving a skill: clarify intent, draft SKILL.md, run scored evals with and without the skill, then tune the description so it triggers accurately. Official Anthropic skill.

Anthropic's terminal coding agent: understands your codebase, edits code, runs commands and handles git workflows, with plugins, MCP and a headless mode (claude -p). Sign in with a Claude account or set an API key.

OpenAI's coding agent that runs locally, written in Rust: reads and writes code and runs commands inside an OS-level sandbox. Sign in with a ChatGPT plan or use an API key.

Open-source browser agent project. Its browser-use CLI lets Claude Code, Codex and other agents drive your logged-in local Chrome with Python snippets, or connect to a cloud browser; also ships a Python agent library. The cloud browser needs an API key.

Gives agents long-term memory across sessions with a local knowledge graph of entities, relations and observations, stored in a local JSONL file you can query and edit. Official MCP reference implementation.

Flags and rewrites AI-sounding text using 25 patterns drawn from Wikipedia's 'Signs of AI writing', keeping the meaning without inventing facts. Give it a writing sample to match your own voice.

Marketing skills for technical marketers and founders: 50 skills covering conversion optimization, copywriting, SEO and AI search, paid ads, email and cold outreach, pricing, customer research and launch strategy, all sharing one product-marketing context.

166 research skills maintained by K-Dense (formerly Claude Scientific Skills), spanning bioinformatics, cheminformatics, clinical research, materials and physics, including unified access to 78 public databases such as PubChem and UniProt. Works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

GitHub's official CLI: manage pull requests, issues, releases and Actions workflows from the terminal. Most commands support --json output that agents can parse, and an official agent skill is available. Run gh auth login first.

In-process analytical SQL database. Its CLI queries CSV, Parquet and JSON files directly with SQL, no import or server needed, so agents can sample and aggregate large files. Officially maintained.

Orchestrates subagents in-session to map the architecture, build a threat model and hunt for vulnerabilities. Every finding is independently verified before it goes in the report, which also comes as SARIF, and optional patch files are left for you to apply. Official Anthropic plugin.

GitHub's official MCP server: lets agents read and write repositories and code, manage issues and pull requests, and check Actions workflows and code-scanning alerts. Use the hosted remote server or run it locally in Docker; needs a personal access token or OAuth.

Google's open-source database MCP server with ready-made query and SQL tools for dozens of sources, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Spanner and MongoDB. Define controlled custom queries in tools.yaml.

Skills from security firm Trail of Bits: 40+ plugins for code auditing, CodeQL and Semgrep static analysis, differential review, smart-contract and cryptography audits, fuzzing and more. Also installable as a Claude Code or Codex plugin marketplace.

Cloudflare's official remote MCP servers: manage Workers and bindings such as KV, R2 and D1, and query logs and observability, builds, DNS analytics and Radar data. Authorizes with Cloudflare OAuth; some features need a paid plan.

Lets agents call the Stripe API to manage customers, payments, subscriptions, invoices and refunds, and search Stripe docs and support articles. Maintained by Stripe; the remote server uses OAuth, or run it locally via npx with a secret key.

A complete harness for coding agents: dozens of subagents, nearly 300 skills, hooks, rules, memory and continuous learning, plus the AgentShield security scanner. Built mainly for Claude Code, with Codex support.

Self-improving agent from Nous Research with built-in memory and a learning loop that turns experience into skills. Works with any model provider; the hermes command has a terminal UI, and a gateway connects it to Telegram, Slack and more and runs scheduled tasks.

Develops a design philosophy first, then draws posters, illustrations and other static visuals in code, exporting PNG or PDF. Emphasizes original work rather than copying existing artists. Official Anthropic skill.

Reference for the Claude API and Anthropic SDK: model selection and pricing, streaming, tool use, prompt caching, Managed Agents and more, plus workflows for model migration and prompt audits. Official Anthropic skill.