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Resources for ML / AI or Security or Hardware engineering: 245 items.

> - ML / AI: Model training, evaluation and LLM application development.
> - Security: Code audits, vulnerability triage, penetration testing and compliance.
> - Hardware engineering: Part and assembly modeling, schematics and PCB review, simulation, and BOM and production files.

- [Grype](https://hebbmind.com/cli/grype.md): [CLI] Scans container images, filesystem directories and SBOMs for known vulnerabilities across major Linux distro packages and many language ecosystems, ranks risk by EPSS and KEV, and filters results with OpenVEX. Good for vulnerability gates in CI. Maintained by Anchore.
- [LLM](https://hebbmind.com/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/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.
- [Arize Phoenix MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/phoenix-mcp.md): [MCP] 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.
- [Presidio CLI](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [OSV-Scanner](https://hebbmind.com/cli/osv-scanner.md): [CLI] Google's official dependency vulnerability scanner: parses project lockfiles and container images, checks them against the OSV.dev database to find affected dependencies, and can suggest upgrade fixes (experimental).
- [Codex Security](https://hebbmind.com/cli/codex-security.md): [CLI] OpenAI's official security CLI and TypeScript SDK: scans codebases to find, validate and fix security vulnerabilities, and can draft a SECURITY.md policy. Needs Node.js 22.13+, Python 3.10+, and a ChatGPT sign-in or API key.
- [Hugging Face Skills](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Hugging Face Skills](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/huggingface-skills.md): [Plugin] 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.
- [Hugging Face CLI (hf-cli)](https://hebbmind.com/skill/hf-cli.md): [Skill] 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.
- [Hugging Face LLM Trainer](https://hebbmind.com/skill/huggingface-llm-trainer.md): [Skill] 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.
- [MCP Inspector](https://hebbmind.com/cli/inspector.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Feynman](https://hebbmind.com/cli/feynman.md): [CLI] Open-source research agent: one command runs literature reviews, deep research, paper reviews, paper-code consistency checks and replication plans, searching arXiv, PubMed and more with sources recorded. Good for grad students writing reviews. Run feynman setup to sign in to a model provider.
- [Privacy Legal](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/privacy-legal.md): [Plugin] Privacy compliance plugin: decides whether processing activities need a PIA or DPIA, generates privacy impact assessments, reviews DPAs from the controller or processor side, and drafts DSAR responses within statutory deadlines. Official from Anthropic.
- [AI Governance Legal](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/ai-governance-legal.md): [Plugin] Anthropic's official AI governance plugin: tiers AI use cases against your internal register, runs impact assessments across applicable laws such as the EU AI Act, reviews vendor AI terms for training-data and liability risk, and periodically checks for drift between AI policy and practice.
- [garak](https://hebbmind.com/cli/garak.md): [CLI] NVIDIA's open-source LLM vulnerability scanner that probes for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, hallucination and harmful content, supporting OpenAI, Hugging Face, Bedrock and most REST-accessible models. Scanning cloud models needs their API keys.
- [PaperQA2](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Harness](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/harness.md): [Plugin] Say build a harness for this project and it designs a domain-specific agent team, generating subagent definitions, companion skills and orchestration, validates them and keeps evolving them from feedback. Supports workflow orchestration, persistent agent teams and subagent delegation.
- [Checkov](https://hebbmind.com/cli/checkov.md): [CLI] Static scanner for security and compliance issues in Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, Dockerfiles and CI pipeline configs, with over a thousand built-in policies and hard-coded secret detection. Outputs SARIF, JSON and more. Maintained by Prisma Cloud.
- [MLX-Audio](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Research Paper Writing Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/research-paper-writing-skills.md): [Skill] Turns Peng Sida's public research-writing notes into a skill: revises abstracts, introductions, methods and experiments of ML/CV/NLP papers from a reviewer's view, checks that each claim has experimental evidence, and runs a pre-submission self-check. Pure methodology, no API key.
- [Trail of Bits Skills](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/trailofbits-skills.md): [Plugin] Plugin marketplace from security firm Trail of Bits with 40+ plugins for code auditing, CodeQL/Semgrep static analysis, variant analysis, supply-chain risk, smart contract security and reverse engineering. Codex can load it directly too.
- [Differential Review](https://hebbmind.com/skill/differential-review.md): [Skill] From Trail of Bits: reviews PRs, commits or diffs from a security angle, tracing history with git blame, estimating blast radius by caller count and checking test coverage gaps, then writes a Markdown review report.
- [Variant Analysis](https://hebbmind.com/skill/variant-analysis.md): [Skill] From Trail of Bits: starts from one confirmed vulnerability, distills its root cause, then writes and progressively generalizes CodeQL/Semgrep queries to find similar variants across the codebase and report them by severity.
- [Supply Chain Risk Auditor](https://hebbmind.com/skill/supply-chain-risk-auditor.md): [Skill] Trail of Bits skill that audits npm, PyPI and Go supply-chain risk: known advisories across direct deps and the whole lockfile tree, deprecated or archived upstreams, npm publisher concentration and install-time scripts. Needs uv; a logged-in gh is recommended.
- [Static Analysis](https://hebbmind.com/skill/static-analysis.md): [Skill] Trail of Bits static analysis skills: CodeQL for interprocedural taint tracking and data-flow analysis, Semgrep for rule-based scanning, plus parsing and deduplicating SARIF results. Requires CodeQL or Semgrep installed locally.
- [Steampipe](https://hebbmind.com/cli/steampipe.md): [CLI] Query cloud resources and SaaS APIs live with SQL: plugins map AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub, Kubernetes and other services to tables you can select from directly, no ETL needed. A single binary with Postgres built in.
- [Agentic Actions Auditor](https://hebbmind.com/skill/agentic-actions-auditor.md): [Skill] Trail of Bits skill that audits GitHub Actions workflows wired to AI coding agents (Claude Code Action, Codex, Gemini CLI and others) for prompt injection, env-variable relays, dangerous sandbox settings, wildcard allowlists and other privilege risks.
- [stable-diffusion.cpp](https://hebbmind.com/cli/stable-diffusion-cpp.md): [CLI] Diffusion model inference in pure C/C++: one sd-cli command runs SD, FLUX, Qwen Image, Wan and more locally to create or edit images and short videos, with Metal acceleration on Mac. No cloud needed; bring your own model weights and use a release binary or build from source.
- [OpenAI Developers](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/openai-developers.md): [Plugin] Build with OpenAI best practices inside Codex: call the OpenAI API, build and deploy agents with the Agents SDK, create ChatGPT apps and prepare submission materials, and create API keys directly. Maintained by OpenAI; Codex only.
- [Codex Security](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/codex-security.md): [Plugin] Security scans for a whole repo or for changes like PRs and commits, with threat modeling, vulnerability triage, fixes and re-verification; reports export to JSON, SARIF and more. OpenAI's official Codex plugin; requires Codex Security access.
- [Jupyter Notebooks](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Defending Code Reference Harness](https://hebbmind.com/skill/defending-code-reference-harness.md): [Skill] Anthropic's reference implementation for finding and fixing vulnerabilities: Claude Code skills for threat modeling, static scanning, triage and patching, plus an autonomous recon-to-patch pipeline (C/C++ memory bugs by default; needs Docker and gVisor). No longer maintained.
- [OpenCompass](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Jupytext](https://hebbmind.com/cli/jupytext.md): [CLI] Converts and two-way syncs Jupyter notebooks with plain Python scripts or Markdown, so agents can edit research and teaching notebooks like ordinary text and diffs stay readable. Needs a local Python environment; install with pip.
- [arxiv-latex-cleaner](https://hebbmind.com/cli/arxiv-latex-cleaner.md): [CLI] Cleans a LaTeX project before arXiv submission: removes comments, auxiliary files and unused .tex files and images, and can compress images, so internal notes are not published with the source. From Google Research; installable with Homebrew on macOS.
- [Trafilatura](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Anthropic Sandbox Runtime (srt)](https://hebbmind.com/cli/sandbox-runtime.md): [CLI] Anthropic's official OS-level sandbox CLI: restricts file and network access for agents, MCP servers and any command without containers, using sandbox-exec on macOS and bubblewrap on Linux. Currently a research preview.
- [zizmor](https://hebbmind.com/cli/zizmor.md): [CLI] Static security analysis for CI/CD config: finds template injection, credential leaks, excessive permissions and more in GitHub Actions workflows, also covers Dependabot and pre-commit configs, and auto-fixes some findings.
- [Google Agents CLI Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/google-skills.md): [Skill] Google's official skills for building ADK agents: dev workflow, scaffolding, the ADK Python API, evaluation with LLM judges and adaptive rubrics, deployment to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run or GKE, publishing and observability. Works with agents-cli; local dev needs only an AI Studio key.
- [Ghidra MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [Claude Scholar](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/claude-scholar.md): [Plugin] Semi-automated research assistant for CS and AI researchers that links ideation, Zotero literature management, experiment analysis and reporting, paper writing and reviewer responses, and keeps project knowledge in Obsidian. Branches for Codex and other agents exist.
- [Claude Scholar](https://hebbmind.com/skill/claude-scholar.md): [Skill] Semi-automated research workflow for computer science and AI researchers: ideation, Zotero literature management, experiment analysis and reports, paper writing and polishing, and rebuttals, with optional Obsidian knowledge base. 40+ skills; also installable as a Claude Code plugin.
- [LM Studio CLI (lms)](https://hebbmind.com/cli/lms.md): [CLI] LM Studio's official CLI: list, load and unload local models, start and stop the local API server, and check status and logs; ls, ps and other commands support --json output for scripts and agents. Requires the LM Studio desktop app.
- [PySceneDetect](https://hebbmind.com/cli/pyscenedetect.md): [CLI] Detects shot changes in video and splits long footage into scenes, exporting cut lists and per-scene thumbnails, useful for shot analysis, organizing footage and finding edit points. Runs locally; needs Python 3.10+, plus FFmpeg or mkvmerge for splitting.
- [ExifTool](https://hebbmind.com/cli/exiftool.md): [CLI] Classic CLI for reading and writing metadata in hundreds of file types including images, video, audio and PDF, covering EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP and camera makers' proprietary tags, with batch editing, stripping and conversion. Requires Perl.
- [MCPorter](https://hebbmind.com/cli/mcporter.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Gemini API Dev](https://hebbmind.com/skill/gemini-api-dev.md): [Skill] 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 Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/gemini-skills.md): [Skill] 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.
- [Nali](https://hebbmind.com/cli/nali.md): [CLI] Terminal tool for offline IP geolocation and CDN provider lookup, supporting QQwry, GeoIP2, ip2region and other databases. Pipe output from dig, nslookup and similar commands through it to annotate IPs automatically.

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