Tools

Local transcription that's compatible with the OpenAI Whisper CLI but faster and lighter: outputs SRT/VTT subtitles or text and can transcribe a live microphone. Needs Python; models download on first run; speaker labels need pyannote.audio and a Hugging Face token.

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.

The standard machine translation scorer: computes BLEU, chrF and TER with significance tests and downloads public test sets such as WMT, to compare engines or prompts. Needs Python 3.9+ and reference translations; automatic metrics are a rough screen, so final copy still needs human review.

Turns Manim animations into step-through slide decks: mark slide breaks in scene code, render, then present with manim-slides or export to HTML, PDF or PPTX, for math and science classes and talks. Scenes are Python (agents can write them); needs Manim, plus LaTeX for formulas.

Plotting skills for academic papers: bar, line, scatter, radar and other styles distilled from 9 real paper figures. Plot your own data in a chosen style as 300 dpi figures, or reproduce a matplotlib script from a paper screenshot. Needs local Python and matplotlib.

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.

Manage Anki cards from the command line: add notes in bulk from Markdown and list or review cards by query, without Anki running. Needs an existing local Anki database and profile; not an official Anki project.

Lets agents create, update and resolve incidents in ServiceNow, manage the service catalog, change requests and knowledge articles, and load only the tools each role needs. Needs a ServiceNow account and Python 3.11+ (from source); community-maintained, last updated Oct 2025.

MinerU's official MCP: parses PDF, Word, PowerPoint and images into Markdown via the mineru.net cloud API, keeping tables and formulas. The keyless Flash mode works out of the box; add a token for higher quotas and more formats.