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Resources for ML / AI or Security or Design, Tagged `python`: 55 items.

> - ML / AI: Model training, evaluation and LLM application development.
> - Security: Code audits, vulnerability triage, penetration testing and compliance.
> - Design: Interface, interaction, visual and brand design.

- [MarkItDown-MCP](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/markitdown-mcp.md): [MCP] 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.
- [MarkItDown](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/markitdown.md): [CLI] 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+.
- [Browser Use](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/browser-use.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Scientific Agent Skills](https://hebbmind.com/fr/skill/scientific-agent-skills.md): [Skill] 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.
- [MCP for Blender](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/mcp-for-blender.md): [MCP] Lets agents model, lay out scenes, tweak materials and run Python in Blender, and import Poly Haven, Sketchfab and AI-generated 3D assets. Requires uv and the companion Blender add-on.
- [Hermes Agent](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/hermes-agent.md): [CLI] 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.
- [MCP Builder](https://hebbmind.com/fr/skill/mcp-builder.md): [Skill] Guides agents in building quality MCP servers: research the protocol and target API, design tools, implement with Python (FastMCP) or the TypeScript SDK, and write evaluation questions to test the result. Official Anthropic skill.
- [Agent SDK Dev](https://hebbmind.com/fr/plugin/agent-sdk-dev.md): [Plugin] Scaffolds a Claude Agent SDK project in Python or TypeScript interactively with /new-sdk-app, then a verifier agent checks dependencies, config and code against official best practices. Maintained by Anthropic.
- [vLLM](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/vllm.md): [CLI] High-throughput LLM inference and serving engine: vllm serve starts an OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible server in one command. Supports 200+ model architectures from Hugging Face, quantization and distributed inference. Aimed mainly at NVIDIA, AMD and other GPUs.
- [PaddleOCR MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/paddlepaddle-mcp-server.md): [MCP] Official PaddleOCR MCP: text recognition and layout parsing for images and PDFs (PP-OCR, PP-StructureV3, PaddleOCR-VL), returning text or Markdown. Runs inference locally, or calls the official API or a self-hosted service.
- [uv](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/uv.md): [CLI] Astral's extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust, replacing pip, pipx, poetry, pyenv and more. Supports lockfiles and multiple Python versions, and uvx runs Python tools without installing them.
- [Scrapling](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/scrapling.md): [MCP] MCP server built into the adaptive Python scraping framework Scrapling: supports plain HTTP requests, browser rendering and stealth fetching, and uses CSS selectors to pass only the target content to the AI, saving tokens and filtering out prompt injection.
- [Scrapling](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/scrapling.md): [CLI] Adaptive web scraping framework: scrapling extract turns a page into Markdown, text or HTML in one command, with CSS selectors and browser rendering for dynamic pages, plus an MCP server (needs the ai extra). Needs Python 3.10+ and a browser install on first use.
- [Crawl4AI](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/crawl4ai.md): [CLI] Open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler that turns pages into clean Markdown for RAG and agents. Ships the crwl CLI and supports deep crawling and question-driven data extraction (extraction needs an LLM key). Free to self-host.
- [Docling](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/docling.md): [CLI] Parses PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, HTML, images and audio, recovering layout, reading order, tables and formulas, and exports Markdown, HTML or lossless JSON. Started by IBM Research, now hosted by the LF AI & Data Foundation; runs fully locally.
- [Freqtrade](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/freqtrade.md): [CLI] Open-source crypto trading framework: download market data, backtest and optimize strategies, and paper trade from the CLI while agents iterate on strategies. Docker recommended; strategies need Python and live trading needs exchange API keys. Backtests don't guarantee returns.
- [CLI-Anything](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/cli-anything.md): [CLI] From HKU's Data Intelligence Lab: plugins or skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents generate agent-callable CLIs for apps like GIMP, Blender and LibreOffice, and the cli-hub package manager finds and installs ready-made community CLIs. Needs Python 3.10+.
- [Ruff](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/ruff.md): [CLI] Astral's extremely fast Python linter and formatter written in Rust, replacing Flake8, isort and Black, with 900+ built-in rules and auto-fix.
- [Qlib](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/qlib.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Marker](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/marker.md): [CLI] Converts PDFs, images, PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, EPUB and more into Markdown, JSON or HTML, preserving tables, formulas and layout, with optional LLM help for higher accuracy. Needs Python 3.10+ and PyTorch; large-scale commercial use of the model weights needs a paid license.
- [Pyright LSP](https://hebbmind.com/fr/plugin/pyright-lsp.md): [Plugin] 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.
- [Rembg](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/rembg.md): [CLI] Removes image backgrounds with one command: single images, whole folders or watched directories, mask-only output and switchable models like U2Net and SAM. Can also run as an HTTP server or process video frames with FFmpeg. Default models run locally.
- [FunASR](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/funasr.md): [CLI] Industrial-grade open-source speech recognition toolkit from Alibaba's ModelScope, with an agent-friendly funasr command that turns audio into text, JSON or SRT subtitles in one step, with speaker diarization and timestamps. Strong on Chinese. Requires PyTorch.
- [gallery-dl](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/gallery-dl.md): [CLI] Command-line tool for bulk-downloading galleries and posts from many image hosts and social platforms, with flexible file naming and config, and yt-dlp integration for video. Main development has moved to Codeberg; the GitHub repo stays in sync.
- [Browser Harness](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/browser-harness.md): [CLI] Browser control from the browser-use team: an editable CDP connection lets agents drive the Chrome you are already using, writing missing helper functions as they go and keeping them for reuse. Also offers an MCP server. Allow remote debugging in Chrome on first use.
- [DVC](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/dvc.md): [CLI] Version datasets and models the way Git versions code: data lives in remote storage like S3 or GCS while versions are tracked in your Git repo. Also offers reproducible pipelines and local experiment tracking, rerunning only the steps affected by a change.
- [Skill Seekers](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/skill-seekers.md): [CLI] Turns 18 kinds of sources, including doc sites, GitHub repos, PDFs and videos, into skill packages for Claude and other platforms, or exports RAG chunks and vector store data. Optional MCP server, and it can call a local agent like Claude Code to enrich content. Needs Python 3.10+.
- [IDA Pro MCP](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/ida-pro-mcp.md): [MCP] Lets agents decompile, disassemble and query cross-references in IDA Pro, and rename variables, change types and add comments, including headless idalib mode. Requires IDA Pro 8.3+ (IDA Free is not supported); the author now recommends Hex-Rays' official IDA MCP instead.
- [HexStrike AI](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/hexstrike-ai.md): [MCP] Wraps 150+ security tools such as nmap, sqlmap and nuclei for agents to orchestrate, covering network recon, web pentesting, binary analysis and CTFs. Clone the repo, install the tools yourself and start the local server. For authorized testing only.
- [LLM](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/llm.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Trae Agent](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/trae-agent.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Presidio CLI](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/presidio.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Hugging Face Skills](https://hebbmind.com/fr/skill/huggingface-skills.md): [Skill] 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.
- [PaperQA2](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/paper-qa.md): [CLI] High-accuracy retrieval-augmented Q&A over paper PDFs, text and Office documents, filling in citation metadata, checking retractions and attaching traceable sources to answers. Provides the pqa CLI and a Python library. Needs an LLM API key by default; local models can be configured.
- [BackgroundRemover](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/backgroundremover.md): [CLI] Removes backgrounds from images and videos with one AI command: batch whole folders, use a portrait model, refine edges or swap in a solid color, and output transparent MOV or composite video onto a new background. Runs locally; install PyTorch and ffmpeg first. Models download on first run.
- [MLX-Audio](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/mlx-audio.md): [CLI] Offline speech toolkit for Apple Silicon Macs: CLI text-to-speech (including Chinese and voice cloning) and speech-to-text, for voicing lessons and explainer videos or transcribing lectures and interviews, with data staying local. Needs an M-series Mac and Python 3.10+; MP3 export needs ffmpeg.
- [FontForge](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/fontforge.md): [CLI] Open-source font editor: fontforge -script runs Python scripts headlessly to batch-edit glyphs, convert between OTF, TTF, UFO and other formats, and generate fonts, for type design and font processing. Homebrew installs the CLI version; install the desktop app for the GUI.
- [OpenCompass](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/opencompass.md): [CLI] Open-source LLM evaluation platform: one opencompass command picks the model and datasets and runs the evaluation across hundreds of benchmarks. Works with local Hugging Face models and API models, with vLLM and LMDeploy for faster inference.
- [Jupyter Notebooks](https://hebbmind.com/fr/skill/jupyter-notebook.md): [Skill] Creates, edits and validates reproducible Python and SQL Jupyter notebooks: organizes cells as reports or tutorials, checks conclusions against actual output and reruns top to bottom before handoff. Maintained by OpenAI in the Data Analytics plugin of openai/plugins.
- [Trafilatura](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/trafilatura.md): [CLI] Python library and CLI for extracting main web content: fetches pages, crawls via sitemaps and RSS feeds, strips headers, footers and other noise, and outputs TXT, Markdown, JSON, XML and more with metadata. Also processes downloaded HTML offline.
- [Ghidra MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/ghidra-mcp.md): [MCP] 250+ MCP tools for Ghidra: decompilation, cross-references, data-flow analysis, bulk renaming and commenting, P-code emulation and live debugging, with headless mode support. Requires Java 21 and Ghidra 12.1, and the plugin must be built and deployed first.
- [fontTools](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/fonttools.md): [CLI] Font toolkit: pyftsubset subsets fonts to the characters you use and outputs WOFF2 to shrink web fonts, and ttx converts fonts to editable XML for inspection and edits. Needs Python 3.11+ and the woff extra for WOFF2; check the license before subsetting commercial fonts.
- [Hugging Face CLI](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/huggingface-hub.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Paper Search MCP](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/paper-search-mcp.md): [MCP] Unified search across 20+ academic sources including arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex, returning deduplicated, normalized results and downloading full text via open-access channels first. Most sources need no API key.
- [ScanCode Toolkit](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/scancode-toolkit.md): [CLI] Scans codebases and dependencies for open-source licenses, copyright notices and package manifests, detecting licenses by full-text matching, with output in JSON, SPDX, CycloneDX and more, for open-source compliance reviews.
- [MFLUX](https://hebbmind.com/fr/cli/mflux.md): [CLI] Runs open image models like FLUX, Qwen Image and Z-Image locally on a Mac: text-to-image, reference-based edits, inpainting and upscaling, all on-device. Needs Apple Silicon and uv; the first run downloads models and is slow. Check each model's license before commercial use.
- [MCP Memory Service](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/mcp-memory-service.md): [MCP] Self-hostable long-term memory for agents, offering MCP, a REST API and a web dashboard: semantic search, knowledge graph and automatic memory consolidation. Embeddings are computed locally; choose SQLite, Cloudflare or Milvus as the backend.
- [MCP Server for WinDbg](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/mcp-windbg.md): [MCP] Lets agents drive WinDbg's CDB/KD to analyze crash dumps, debug user-mode processes remotely and debug kernels, and triage many dumps in a batch. Windows only; requires WinDbg or Debugging Tools for Windows.
- [Jupyter MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/fr/mcp/jupyter-mcp-server.md): [MCP] Connects agents to live Jupyter notebooks: read, write, insert and execute cells and read multimodal outputs like charts, for interactive data analysis. Bring your own JupyterLab or JupyterHub; open source, maintained by Datalayer.
- [LangChain Skills](https://hebbmind.com/fr/skill/langchain-skills.md): [Skill] LangChain's official skill collection: framework selection, quickstarts, middleware, persistence, human-in-the-loop approval, RAG and eval design across LangChain, LangGraph and Deep Agents, in Python and TypeScript. Also installable as a Claude Code plugin. Still in early development.

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