Tools

Command-line toolkit for transcoding, cutting, joining, frame extraction and streaming of audio and video, including ffmpeg, ffprobe and ffplay. A core dependency for agents handling media. The GitHub repo is the official mirror.

MuseScore 4 command-line wrapper from CLI-Anything: lets agents transpose scores, extract parts, add or remove instruments, inspect score info and export PDF, MIDI, MusicXML, MP3 or braille. Handy for music teachers preparing scores in bulk. Needs MuseScore 4 and Python 3.10+.

Veteran open-source video transcoder. HandBrakeCLI uses built-in presets to batch-compress screen recordings, course videos and footage or convert them to MP4, MKV or WebM for phones and the web. Free, runs locally, installable on macOS via Homebrew.

From Firecrawl: converts Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, EPUB, RTF and more into clean Markdown locally in milliseconds, keeping headings, tables, footnotes and formulas so agents can read attachments. Needs Node.js; optional Firecrawl cloud OCR for scans uploads the whole file.

Veteran image processing CLI suite that converts, resizes, crops, composites and batch-processes JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PDF and many more formats, handy for agents handling images in scripts.

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.

High-quality GIF encoder built on pngquant: turns video frames or PNG sequences into animations, using cross-frame palettes and temporal dithering for thousands of colors per frame. Can take video piped straight from ffmpeg.

Converts PDFs to editable Word files, keeping paragraphs, tables, images and layout as closely as possible, and can extract tables alone, handy when a contract or exam only exists as PDF. Needs Python; digital PDFs only, OCR scans first. No longer actively maintained by Artifex.

Local FFmpeg video editing skill: ask in plain language to cut and join clips, remove silence, reframe to vertical, add subtitles, normalize loudness and export to TikTok, Reels or YouTube specs, fully offline with no API key. Needs ffmpeg and Python 3; also usable as an MCP.

Converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, web pages and images to clean Markdown locally, keeping page anchors, tables and two-column reading order, with full-text search across folders. Formerly pdf-reader-mcp; no uploads, no API key. Needs Node.js 18+; OCR for scans needs tesseract.

The Docling project's official MCP: converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint and more into structured documents with layout and table detection and OCR for scans, and lets agents build new documents paragraph by paragraph and export Markdown. Local mode needs Python and uv, or use your own Docling Serve.

Official MCP from Nutrient (formerly PSPDFKit): merge PDFs, convert between Office and PDF, OCR, watermark, redact personal data, add digital signatures, and extract fields from invoices and contracts. Files are processed in Nutrient's cloud; needs a free account (page-based credits) and Node.js.

Cloudinary's official plugin with 5 MCP servers and 3 skills: upload, manage, crop and compress image and video assets, run AI image analysis and automated media workflows, and search docs for developers. Needs a Cloudinary account (free tier) or a temporary cloud claimed within 24 hours.