Tools

For fuzzy requirements: the agent asks one question at a time with its own guess, clarifying users, motivation, success criteria and constraints, and restates the intent for your confirmation before planning. Needs you answering live, so not for unattended runs. From Addy Osmani's agent-skills.

Gives agents the current time and IANA time zone conversion, detecting the system time zone automatically. No API key needed. Official MCP reference server, written in Python.

Provides a sequential_thinking tool that guides the model to break complex problems into revisable, branching steps. Good for planning, analysis and tasks that need careful iteration. Official MCP reference server.

Perplexity's official MCP with four tools: web search, grounded Q&A, deep research and reasoning, available remotely or run locally. Requires a Perplexity API key.