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Command-line audio and video downloader supporting thousands of sites: pick formats and quality, grab subtitles and metadata, and merge or transcode with FFmpeg. The actively maintained fork of youtube-dl.

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+.

Anthropic's document skills, the implementation behind Claude's file features: create, edit and analyze Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files, including tracked changes, comments, formulas and form filling. Source-available, not under an open-source license.

Extracts text and tables from PDFs; merges, splits and rotates pages, adds watermarks, fills forms and OCRs scanned documents. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

In-process analytical SQL database. Its CLI queries CSV, Parquet and JSON files directly with SQL, no import or server needed, so agents can sample and aggregate large files. Officially maintained.

Anthropic's financial-services plugin marketplace: skills, commands and agents for valuation models (DCF, LBO, comps), banking materials, sell-side research, private equity and fund ops, with FactSet, Morningstar and other connectors that may need vendor subscriptions or keys.

Anthropic's knowledge-work plugin marketplace, bundling skills, commands and connectors by role: sales, support, product, marketing, legal, finance, HR, data and more, plus many partner plugins. Built mainly for Cowork; also works in Claude Code.

Anthropic's role-based skill collection covering sales, finance, legal, HR, support, marketing, product, design, operations and data analysis: over a hundred skills you can install one at a time. Works best with CRM, data warehouse and other connectors.

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.

Google's open-source database MCP server with ready-made query and SQL tools for dozens of sources, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, Spanner and MongoDB. Define controlled custom queries in tools.yaml.

Lets agents call the Stripe API to manage customers, payments, subscriptions, invoices and refunds, and search Stripe docs and support articles. Maintained by Stripe; the remote server uses OAuth, or run it locally via npx with a secret key.

Resolves subscription billing issues: checks customer and subscription state, separates duplicate purchases, team seats and failed payments, restores self-serve before refunding, and drafts the reply. Needs Stripe or similar tools connected; refunds move real money, so review them.

Makes GIFs that follow Slack's recommended size, frame rate, color and length for emoji (128x128) and message GIFs (480x480), with animation tips and tools to assemble and validate them. Built on Python and Pillow. Official Anthropic skill.

Creates generative art such as flow fields and particle systems with p5.js and seeded randomness: first writes an algorithmic design philosophy, then outputs an interactive HTML viewer with tunable parameters. Official Anthropic skill.

Creates, edits and analyzes Excel spreadsheets: formulas, formatting, charts and data cleaning, plus conversion between CSV, TSV and other tabular formats. The official Anthropic skill behind Claude's document features; source-available, not open source.

Official MoneyPrinterTurbo skill: give it a topic or script and the agent installs, configures and produces a short video with voiceover, stock footage, subtitles and music; defaults to Chinese vertical MP4. Needs an LLM API key and a free Pexels key; macOS and Windows.

Generates or edits images: photos, illustrations, textures, game sprites, product mockups and transparent assets. A built-in Codex system skill using the image_gen tool, no install needed; with approval it can use a bundled CLI script that needs OPENAI_API_KEY. By OpenAI.

OpenAI's open-source general-purpose speech recognition model. The whisper command transcribes many languages, translates foreign speech into English and writes subtitle files. Needs FFmpeg; faster with a GPU.

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.

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.

Baidu PaddlePaddle's official OCR and document parsing tool: the paddleocr command reads text from images and parses PDFs and scans into Markdown or JSON, supporting 100+ languages with models that run locally.

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.

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.

HeyGen's official video plugin: compose scenes with HTML, CSS and animation and render deterministic MP4s, with skills for promo videos, captions, voiceover and music, and PR walkthrough videos. Needs Node.js 22+ and FFmpeg.