Tools

Google's official open-source terminal agent using Gemini models with a 1M-token context. Built-in Google Search, file and shell tools, plus MCP support. Personal Google accounts get a free quota.

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.

Deep research assistant that runs locally with a built-in MCP server: searches arXiv, PubMed, Wikipedia and more over multiple rounds and writes cited reports. Needs Python 3.12+, uv and an LLM (local Ollama or an API key); web search needs SearXNG or similar. Runs take minutes to half an hour.

Four tools for real-time web search, page content extraction, site mapping and full-site crawling, available as a remote server or run locally. Maintained by Tavily; needs an API key or OAuth sign-in, and a free account is available.

Two-stage deep research: drafts an editable outline for the topic, then parallel subagents search the web item by item and compile a Markdown report. Good for literature reviews, competitor research and due diligence. Install by copying files per the README, plus pip install pyyaml.

Multi-engine web search MCP with no API key, supporting Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Baidu, Sogou, CSDN, Juejin and more; also fetches page content, CSDN articles and GitHub READMEs. Ships a CLI and a local server too.

Web search through DuckDuckGo plus fetching and parsing page content, with built-in rate limiting and LLM-friendly result formatting. No API key needed; runs with a single uvx command.

Web search and page reading for agents through a self-hosted or trusted SearXNG metasearch instance, with no paid search API key. Requires a SearXNG instance with JSON output enabled.

Jina AI's official remote MCP: converts web pages and PDFs to Markdown, searches the web, arXiv, SSRN and images, and offers screenshots, reranking and semantic dedup. Reading tools work without a key (rate-limited); search and rerank need a Jina API key.

Official Firecrawl skill: drives the Firecrawl CLI to search, scrape, map site URLs, batch-crawl, interact with pages and monitor changes, returning LLM-ready Markdown. Search and scrape have a rate-limited free tier; crawling and monitoring need an account or self-hosted instance.

Firecrawl's official CLI: scrape, search, map and crawl sites and interact with pages in a browser from the terminal, with Markdown output; can also install companion skills for coding agents. Needs a Firecrawl account or API key, or point it at a self-hosted instance.

Official Tavily skills: let agents search the web, extract page content, discover site URLs, crawl in bulk and run cited deep research through the Tavily CLI (tvly). Install the CLI first; search and extract have a limited no-login tier, other features need sign-in or an API key.

Lets agents search Wikipedia and read full articles, summaries, specific sections and related articles, useful for lesson prep, homework help and fact-checking. English Wikipedia by default; pass --language to use another edition. No account; needs uv (Python).

Firecrawl's official plugin: brings the Firecrawl CLI in as skills so Claude Code can search the web, scrape pages to Markdown, map site links or crawl whole sites. Install firecrawl-cli and set an API key first; self-hosting supported.