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Resources for DevOps / SRE or ML / AI or Data engineering or Design: 633 items.

> - DevOps / SRE: Deployment, monitoring, cloud resources and reliability.
> - ML / AI: Model training, evaluation and LLM application development.
> - Data engineering: Data pipelines, warehouse modeling, ETL and data quality.
> - Design: Interface, interaction, visual and brand design.

- [Progressive Blur](https://hebbmind.com/skill/progressive-blur.md): [Skill] Creates a layered progressive blur at the top or bottom edge of the viewport by stacking backdrop-filter layers with gradient masks, with ready-to-paste HTML and CSS and knobs for height, blur steps, direction and z-index.
- [Design-First UI Prompting](https://hebbmind.com/skill/design-first-ui-prompting.md): [Skill] Turns a fuzzy UI idea into a design-first prompt spec for UI generation: goal, format, layout, type system, color, imagery, exact copy, constraints and negative prompt, then iterates by changing one variable at a time.
- [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.
- [pastel](https://hebbmind.com/cli/pastel.md): [CLI] Command-line color tool: generate, mix, lighten and darken colors, convert between HEX, RGB, HSL, Lab and more, build gradients and sets of distinct colors, pick readable text colors for a background, and simulate color blindness. Install via Homebrew; no account or API key.
- [n8n Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/n8n-skills.md): [Skill] 14 n8n workflow skills: expression syntax, MCP tool usage, node configuration, validation and troubleshooting, Code nodes, AI Agent workflows and self-hosted n8n deployment. Meant to be used with the n8n-mcp server.
- [OpenPencil](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/openpencil.md): [MCP] Open-source AI-native vector design tool with an MCP server built into its desktop app, connectable to Claude Code or Codex in one click. Agents read and edit .op designs in natural language, apply style guides and export React, Vue, Flutter or SwiftUI code. Needs the desktop app.
- [csvkit](https://hebbmind.com/cli/csvkit.md): [CLI] Veteran suite of CSV command-line tools: in2csv converts Excel and JSON to CSV, csvcut, csvgrep and csvsort filter and sort, csvstat computes statistics, and csvsql runs SQL directly against CSV files.
- [Lieflat Charts](https://hebbmind.com/skill/lieflat-charts.md): [Skill] Generates template-driven charts as single-file HTML: picks a chart from real Lupi, Basics, Glance, Maps and Interactive gallery implementations based on data shape, or fills one of 12 Chinese and English report templates. Defaults to Mono grayscale with semantic color presets. Written in Chinese.
- [21st MCP (formerly Magic MCP)](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/magic-mcp.md): [MCP] 21st.dev's official MCP: lets agents search and fetch UI components, themes and template code from the 21st.dev community, and generate components from a description once AI access is enabled. Absorbs the former Magic MCP; requires a free API key from 21st.dev.
- [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.
- [Docker CLI](https://hebbmind.com/cli/docker-cli.md): [CLI] Docker's official CLI for building images, running and managing containers, viewing logs and pushing to registries, a foundational tool for agents setting up isolated environments. Needs a local or remote Docker Engine such as Docker Desktop.
- [pnpm](https://hebbmind.com/skill/pnpm.md): [Skill] Reference for pnpm 12: CLI, pnpm-workspace.yaml settings, monorepo workspaces, catalogs, overrides, patches, supply-chain settings such as build approval, task orchestration, CI setup and migration from npm, Yarn or older pnpm. Generated by Anthony Fu from the official docs.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Interface Design](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/interface-design.md): [Plugin] Design engineering plugin for product interfaces such as admin panels and dashboards: builds UI on design principles and saves spacing, color and hierarchy decisions to .interface-design/system.md to stay consistent across sessions. Not meant for marketing pages.
- [pngquant](https://hebbmind.com/cli/pngquant.md): [CLI] Lossy PNG compression CLI: converts images to 8-bit PNGs that keep transparency, usually 60-80% smaller, with batch processing and a quality range setting. Handy for slimming down web assets, slides and article images. Install via Homebrew on macOS; no account.
- [Draw.io MCP Server](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/drawio-mcp.md): [MCP] draw.io's official MCP: opens XML, CSV or Mermaid diagrams generated by the agent directly in the draw.io editor, good for flowcharts and architecture diagrams. A no-install remote version can also render diagrams inline in the chat.
- [gifski](https://hebbmind.com/cli/gifski.md): [CLI] 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.
- [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.
- [Text-to-Lottie (Diffusion Studio)](https://hebbmind.com/skill/lottie.md): [Skill] Lets agents generate production-ready Lottie animations (icon motion, loaders, data animations and more) from a text description or SVG, with a local player for live preview and tweaks. Export JSON for web, apps or After Effects. Needs Node.js locally.
- [Transitions Polish](https://hebbmind.com/skill/transitions-polish.md): [Skill] Polishes existing motion against the transitions.dev token scale for duration, distance, scale, blur and easing, matching each value by what the motion does rather than the nearest number, with rules for open/close asymmetry, hover in and out, stagger and intent delays.
- [Refine Live](https://hebbmind.com/skill/refine-live.md): [Skill] In-chat fallback for the transitions.dev Timeline Inspector's Refine button: the agent long-polls a local relay and answers jobs with motion-token tweaks or a full transition recipe swap, and applies accepted changes. Idle polling costs credits, so the persistent CLI mode is preferred.
- [GitHub Agentic Workflows](https://hebbmind.com/cli/gh-aw.md): [CLI] GitHub's official gh extension for writing Actions workflows in Markdown that AI agents execute, compiled into standard Actions. Choose engines like Copilot, Claude Code or Codex; runs in a read-only sandbox by default. Requires gh.
- [Build Iterated Agentic Loop](https://hebbmind.com/skill/build-iterated-agentic-loop.md): [Skill] Turns a repeatable agent task into a repo-local skill plus a GitHub Actions workflow that runs a coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or CodeLayer) on a schedule, with a prompt, memory file and one-open-PR bound. Reads the repo first, then walks you through cadence, scope and validation.
- [Design Control Loop](https://hebbmind.com/skill/design-control-loop.md): [Skill] Interviews you to design an agentic control loop for your codebase in control-theory terms: a set point, a sensor built from existing tooling, a controller that picks small low-risk changes, and a coding agent that opens PRs. Builds each part to run locally before wiring a scheduled CI workflow.
- [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.
- [fontTools](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [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.
- [Home Assistant MCP Server (ha-mcp)](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/ha-mcp.md): [MCP] Lets agents operate Home Assistant: control devices, query state and history, create and debug automations and edit dashboards, with 80+ tools. Community-maintained (unofficial); requires your own Home Assistant instance, and running via uvx needs a long-lived access token.
- [WP-CLI](https://hebbmind.com/cli/wp-cli.md): [CLI] WordPress's official CLI: install and update plugins and themes, manage posts and users, import and export content, run database search-replace and configure multisite from the terminal, without opening wp-admin. Requires PHP 7.2.24 or later.
- [Excalidraw Diagram Skill](https://hebbmind.com/skill/excalidraw-diagram-skill.md): [Skill] Generates hand-drawn-style Excalidraw diagrams (.excalidraw files you can keep editing on excalidraw.com) from text, choosing fan-out, timeline or convergence layouts by how concepts relate. Optional uv and Playwright let the agent render and check layouts; colors live in one file you can restyle.
- [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.
- [YouPlot](https://hebbmind.com/cli/youplot.md): [CLI] 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.
- [Style Dictionary](https://hebbmind.com/cli/style-dictionary.md): [CLI] Design token build tool: define colors, font sizes, spacing and other design specs in one JSON source, then style-dictionary build generates CSS, SCSS, iOS, Android and other platform code, keeping the design system and implementations in sync. Needs Node.js and a config.json.
- [Claude Plugins Community](https://hebbmind.com/plugin/claude-plugins-community.md): [Plugin] Read-only mirror of the community plugin marketplace maintained by Anthropic, with 2,000+ community plugins that passed submission review and automated security scans, for Claude Code and Claude Cowork.
- [Azure CLI](https://hebbmind.com/cli/azure-cli.md): [CLI] Microsoft's official Azure CLI (az) for managing VMs, storage, resource groups and other Azure resources, with JMESPath queries, table or JSON output and clear exit codes for scripting. Run az login first.
- [trash-cli](https://hebbmind.com/cli/trash-cli.md): [CLI] Moves files to the trash instead of deleting them, with commands to list, restore and empty trashed files, so anything an agent deletes by mistake can be recovered. Follows the FreeDesktop.org trash spec and shares the trash with GNOME and KDE.
- [Seedance 2.0 Prompt Writing Skills](https://hebbmind.com/skill/seedance2-skill.md): [Skill] Teaches agents to write video prompts for ByteDance's Seedance 2.0: input limits, @ asset references and camera language, with templates for product ads, short dramas, dance, scenic clips, e-commerce and explainers, in English and Chinese. Prompts only; generate videos with your own account.
- [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.
- [designlang](https://hebbmind.com/cli/design-extract.md): [CLI] Reads any website's design system in a headless browser and exports DTCG design tokens, Tailwind config, Figma variables and a brand guide in one command, scoring contrast and cross-page consistency. Also an MCP server or Claude Code plugin. Needs Node.js and Chromium or Chrome.
- [Oxipng](https://hebbmind.com/cli/oxipng.md): [CLI] Multithreaded lossless PNG optimizer that shrinks screenshots, slices and icons in bulk without quality loss and strips unneeded metadata, handy for design handoff or compressing images before a site launch. Install with Homebrew on macOS.
- [resvg](https://hebbmind.com/cli/resvg.md): [CLI] High-fidelity SVG rendering library and CLI that exports SVG icons and illustrations to PNG at chosen sizes, good for batch asset export. No system dependencies, with pixel-identical output across platforms. No SVG animation support; install with cargo or grab a macOS build from Releases.
- [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.
- [Container Use](https://hebbmind.com/mcp/container-use.md): [MCP] From Dagger: gives every coding agent an isolated container and Git branch so several agents can work in parallel, and you can view command logs, take over the terminal or discard results anytime. Needs Docker and Git locally; still experimental.
- [Container Use](https://hebbmind.com/cli/container-use.md): [CLI] From Dagger: gives each coding agent its own container and git branch so multiple agents work in parallel without interfering, with command logs and the ability to take over the terminal at any time. Connects via MCP; needs Docker and Git. Still experimental.
- [lychee](https://hebbmind.com/cli/lychee.md): [CLI] Fast async link checker written in Rust that scans websites and Markdown, HTML and other files for broken links and email addresses, with JSON output, config files and an official GitHub Action, often wired into docs CI.
- [Hugging Face CLI](https://hebbmind.com/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.
- [qsv](https://hebbmind.com/cli/qsv.md): [CLI] 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.

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