AI agents for researchers and analysts
169 AI agents and agent tools that suit researchers and analysts: people who gather, read, and analyze information. Ranked by momentum this week, with setup difficulty for each.
Ranks for week 44 (Oct 26 to Nov 1, 2026). Data as of Nov 2, 2026.
In short
- Gaining the most momentum this week: LearnHarness, REA, and AiSOC.
- Easiest to start with (nothing to install, or adds to an AI app you already use): Apify MCP server, Claude-Red, and Helix Foundry.
- #1
LearnHarness
LearnHarness is a desktop app that uses AI agents to plan and teach difficult subjects step by step, based on what you already understand.
- #2
REA
REA is an MCP server that lets AI agents reverse engineer apps and native binaries to explain how a feature works.
- #3
AiSOC
AiSOC is a self-hosted security operations center that triages security alerts with AI agents for security teams.
- #4
Hob
Hob is a desktop app that runs open-weight AI models on your own computer for private, offline use, including filling out PDFs and working through documents.
- #5
ex-USSR Kinship Research
ex-USSR Kinship Research is a skill that helps AI agents trace family history in former Soviet records for people researching ancestors from the region.
- #6
Lightpanda Browser
Lightpanda Browser is a headless browser that runs AI agents and automation scripts faster and with less memory than Chromium for developers and automation builders.
- #7
geo-sleuth
geo-sleuth is a skill that finds where a photo was taken using map geometry, elevation skylines and satellite imagery, and shows its evidence.
- #8
Agent Reach
Agent Reach is a command-line tool that lets an AI agent read and search login-only and Chinese platforms like Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, and Twitter for people who need that content.
- #9
Noria
Noria is an agent app that finds jobs and scholarships from web pages and scores them against your profile, sending results to WhatsApp.
- #10
Apify MCP server
Apify MCP server is a connector that lets AI agents scrape websites and pull data from social media, maps, and online stores for businesses and researchers.
- #11
ego lite
ego lite is a browser that lets AI agents run web tasks in their own workspaces while you keep browsing, for people who want agents to use their logged-in sites.
- #12
Claude-Red
Claude-Red is a library of offensive security skills that teaches Claude red team methods for authorized security testing.
- #13
Vibe-Research
Vibe-Research is a self-hosted stock research workbench that uses an AI agent for A-share, US and HK stock analysis for investors and analysts.
- #14
Helix Foundry
Helix Foundry is an agent app that maps company data into a queryable graph for analysts and business teams.
- #15
Answer me with HTML
Answer me with HTML is a skill that answers hard questions with a readable one-page HTML page for anyone.
- #16
tick-stock-panel
TSP is a self-hosted A-share quant workbench that lets investors build strategies, run backtests, and monitor stocks for individuals who write their own rules.
- #17
WeChatBridge
WeChatBridge is a native macOS tool that sends selected WeChat chat history to AI agents or Obsidian for summaries and notes.
- #18
social-media-research-skills
Social-media-research-skills is a set of skills that lets an AI agent find outlier posts, mine comments, and analyze competitors across major social platforms for marketers.
- #19
cli-anything-wps
cli-anything-wps is a toolkit that lets AI agents control WPS or Microsoft Office documents, slides, and spreadsheets for people working on Windows.
- #20
Tavotto
Tavotto is a desktop app that polishes AI-drawn or script-made scientific figures for journal submission for researchers and academics.
- #21
Synthadoc
Synthadoc is an open-source tool that turns raw documents into a structured, local Markdown wiki that stays accurate as sources grow, for individuals and teams.
- #22
dbx
dbx is a lightweight database client that lets you browse, query, and manage 100+ databases, with a built-in AI SQL assistant, for developers and data users.
- #23
Understand-Anything
Understand-Anything is a plugin that turns a codebase, knowledge base, or docs into an interactive graph you can explore and ask questions about, for people new to a project.
- #24
MOVO
MOVO is a self-hosted platform that turns DeepSeek's agent runtime into a team workspace with knowledge search, research, and admin controls for organizations.
- #25
Academic Research Skills
Academic Research Skills is a set of Claude Code skills that guides researchers through research, writing, review, and revision for a paper.
- #26
mcp-gamehacking
mcp-gamehacking is an MCP server that gives Claude, Codex, and Cursor a set of reverse engineering and debugging tools for analyzing game binaries and anti-cheat systems.
- #27
Scientific Agent Skills
Scientific Agent Skills is a collection of 177 skills that teaches an AI agent scientific tools and databases for research work.
- #28
Carrel
Carrel is a self-hosted knowledge base that lets AI agents search your own documents and their related facts for accurate answers.
- #29
SolidWorks Automation Skill
SolidWorks Automation Skill is a skill and MCP toolkit that lets AI agents drive SolidWorks CAD software for mechanical design work.
- #30
Obscura
Obscura is a headless browser that lets AI agents and scrapers load and read web pages with a small footprint for developers.
- #31
Vibe-Trading
Vibe-Trading is a personal trading agent that runs research, backtests and trading tasks for investors who want AI to do the analysis.
- #32
Horizon
Horizon is a self-run news radar that collects articles from many sources and writes daily briefings in English and Chinese for people who want to keep up without endless scrolling.
- #33
MLView
MLView is a skill and VS Code viewer that turns an ML workflow into a source-linked interactive diagram for people reading ML code.
- #34
last30days-skill
last30days-skill is a skill that researches a topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News, and the web for people who need recent community opinion.
- #35
hyperresearch
Hyperresearch is a deep research skill that turns Claude Code or Codex into a research agent that builds a searchable source library for researchers and analysts.
- #36
book-to-skill
book-to-skill is a skill that turns a technical book PDF into a structured skill your AI agent can search chapter by chapter, for people who want to reuse a book's content while they work.
- #37
Seep-Reverse-Lab
Seep-Reverse-Lab is an agent-run workbench that analyzes apps and binaries for reverse engineering and authorization flaws for security researchers and developers.
- #38
Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep is a skill that runs machine learning research workflows, such as idea generation, paper review, and experiments, for researchers.
- #39
Floe Agent
Floe Agent is an open-source AI agent workspace for iPad, iPhone and Android that keeps notes, files, code and a Linux environment on your device.
- #40
obsidian-second-brain
obsidian-second-brain is a skill plugin that gives Claude Code, Codex and other agents persistent memory stored in your Obsidian notes, for people who keep their knowledge in Obsidian.
- #41
QuantDinger
QuantDinger is a self-hosted AI trading platform that turns trading ideas into Python strategies, backtests, and paper or live trades for traders.
- #42
Jev Ultrafast
Jev Ultrafast is a Python browser agent that completes web tasks from one plain-language goal for developers and technical users who want fast, low-cost automation.
- #43
codex-ppt-skill
Codex PPT Skill is a skill that turns articles, reports, and notes into image-based slide decks for people who need presentations quickly.
- #44
PentAGI
PentAGI is a self-hosted agent app that runs automated penetration tests against a target you describe in plain language, for security professionals.
- #45
AI-Infra-Guard
AI-Infra-Guard is a self-hosted security scanner that checks AI agents, agent skills, MCP servers, and AI infrastructure for risks.
- #46
a-stock-data
a-stock-data is a skill file that gives AI coding assistants ready-made tools for pulling China A-share market data for investment research.
- #47
reverse-skill
reverse-skill is a skill pack that routes AI coding agents to reverse engineering and authorized security testing methods for security researchers.
- #48
x64dbg-mcp-server
x64dbg-mcp-server is an MCP server that lets AI assistants control the x64dbg debugger for reverse engineering programs and malware.
- #49
0
0 is an agent app that finds and reviews security vulnerabilities in code for developers and security teams.
- #50
CVE MCP Server
CVE MCP Server is a connector that lets Claude check software vulnerabilities across many security databases for security teams.
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World Monitor
World Monitor is a real-time dashboard that tracks world news, geopolitics, and infrastructure in one view for people who need situational awareness.
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DeerFlow
DeerFlow is an open-source super agent that researches topics, writes code, and creates content over tasks that take minutes to hours, for people who need multi-step work done.
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MinerU
MinerU is a document parser that turns PDFs and Office files into clean markdown or JSON for AI workflows.
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OmO
OmO is a coding agent app that turns a single prompt into finished software work for developers and builders who want agents to handle multi-step jobs.
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AnythingLLM
AnythingLLM is an app that lets you chat with private documents and run AI agents on your own computer or server.
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daily_stock_analysis
daily_stock_analysis is an agent app that runs daily AI analysis of stocks and sends decision dashboards to chat apps for individual investors.
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TrendRadar
TrendRadar is a self-hosted news monitor that gathers trending topics and RSS feeds, filters them with AI, and pushes summaries to your phone for people tracking public opinion.
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Cherry Studio
Cherry Studio is a desktop app that chats with multiple AI models and runs agents for everyday work on your computer.
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obsidian-skills
obsidian-skills is a set of skill files that teaches AI coding agents to read and write Obsidian notes, bases, and canvases for note-taking users.
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Metabase
Metabase is a business intelligence tool that lets anyone on a team ask questions of company data and build dashboards.
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SiYuan
SiYuan is a self-hosted knowledge workspace that lets people and AI agents work on notes together, for people who want private, local-first notes.
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BettaFish
BettaFish is a self-hosted multi-agent system that analyzes public opinion across social media platforms and writes research reports for business decisions.
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Vane
Vane is a self-hosted AI answering engine that searches the web and gives cited answers for people who want private searches.
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Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills is a set of 817 security skill files that teach AI agents how to run security investigations and assessments for security teams.
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GPT Researcher
GPT Researcher is an agent that runs deep web and local document research and writes cited reports for people who need factual summaries.
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AgenticSeek
AgenticSeek is a self-hosted agent app that browses the web, writes code, and plans tasks for people who want to keep their data on their own machine.
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Hummingbot
Hummingbot is a framework that runs automated crypto trading bots on many exchanges for traders and developers.
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GitDiagram
GitDiagram is an MCP server and web tool that turns a GitHub repository into an architecture diagram or narrated video for people who need to understand a codebase.
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Maxun
Maxun is a web data platform that turns any website into a structured API for teams that need scraped data without writing code.
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SurfSense
SurfSense is a desktop app that researches, transforms, and edits your private documents on your own machine, as an open-source alternative to NotebookLM.
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claude-obsidian
claude-obsidian is a set of Claude Code skills that turns sources you save into a linked Obsidian notes wiki for people who want to keep their research organized.
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OpenMetadata
OpenMetadata is an open-source data catalog and metadata platform that gives people and AI assistants trusted context about company data.
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AutoResearchClaw
AutoResearchClaw is an agent app that turns a research idea into a full academic paper with citations and experiments, for researchers and students.
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Nanobrowser
Nanobrowser is a Chrome extension that runs an AI agent in your own logged-in browser to carry out web tasks for you.
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AI-Research-SKILLs
AI-Research-SKILLs is a library of 98 skill files that teach Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini agents to carry out AI research tasks.
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MiMoCode
MiMoCode is a terminal-native AI coding assistant that reads, writes, and runs code for developers working in a command line.
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IDA Pro MCP
IDA Pro MCP is an MCP server that lets AI assistants like Claude read and work inside IDA Pro for reverse engineering binaries.
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NoteGen
NoteGen is a desktop and mobile Markdown note app that uses AI to turn scattered captures into organized notes for personal knowledge work.
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cangjie-skill
Cangjie Skill is a skill generator that turns books, long videos, and podcasts into reusable AI skills for applying their methods.
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GhidraMCP
GhidraMCP is an MCP server (a connector that lets AI apps like Claude use another tool) that lets AI models reverse engineer compiled programs in Ghidra.
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PinchTab
PinchTab is a browser control server that lets AI agents drive Chrome for web research and browser tasks on your own machine.
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Local Deep Research
Local Deep Research is an agent app that runs multi-step research across the web, academic papers, and your own documents for people who want privacy and control.
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web-access
web-access is a skill that gives a local AI agent full web access, including a real browser, for multi-step research and browsing tasks.
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mini-swe-agent
mini-swe-agent is a command line agent that fixes GitHub issues and runs terminal tasks for developers who want a simple, hackable tool.
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CyberStrikeAI
CyberStrikeAI is a self-hosted agent app that runs security testing tools through an AI agent for authorized penetration testers.
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skills
Skills is a marketplace of security analysis plugins that teach Claude Code or Codex to audit code, test software, and review vulnerabilities.
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Firecrawl MCP Server
Firecrawl MCP Server is a connector that lets AI apps search, scrape, and interact with live web pages for users who need clean web content.
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ChatLab
ChatLab is a desktop app that analyzes your exported chat history from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and others, with AI agents that search and summarize it, all stored on your own machine.
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Yuxi
Yuxi is a self-hosted platform that gives teams a private knowledge-base assistant with custom agents, document search, and access controls for multiple users.
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T3MP3ST
T3MP3ST is a self-hosted multi-agent framework that runs authorized red team tests on web apps, CTFs, and source code for security testers.
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Lieflat Charts
Lieflat Charts is a skill that turns data into polished, interactive HTML charts, slide decks, and reports for AI agents to use.
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LoopX
LoopX is a local-first control plane that keeps long-running agent work on goals, decisions and evidence across sessions and tools for engineers and researchers.
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gemini-notebook-mcp-cli
Gemini Notebook CLI and MCP server is a command-line tool and connector that lets you manage Gemini Notebook from a terminal or AI assistant.
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BrowserAct Skills
BrowserAct Skills is a browser automation tool that lets AI agents control a real browser for web scraping and multi-account tasks.
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ghidra-mcp
ghidra-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI tools analyze and document binaries in Ghidra for reverse engineers.
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SenseNova-Skills
SenseNova-Skills is a set of add-on skills that gives office AI agents ready-made abilities for making infographics, slide decks, Excel analysis, and research reports.
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Claude Scholar
Claude Scholar is a set of skills and agents that helps computer science and AI researchers manage literature, experiments, and paper writing.
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Maka
Maka is a desktop and terminal agent workspace that completes multi-step tasks and keeps a full local record of every action it took for developers and technical users.
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zotero-mcp
Zotero MCP is a connector that lets Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants search, read, and annotate a Zotero research library for researchers.
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FrontierAgent
FrontierAgent is an agent app that runs research and file-based work in a terminal, with one agent or a team of parallel sub-agents, for people comfortable with the command line.
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AIPOCH Open-Science
AIPOCH Open-Science is an agent app that helps scientists run reproducible research with AI agents, code execution, and traceable outputs on their own computer.
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Claude-BugHunter
Claude-BugHunter is a skill bundle that adds bug hunting and external red-team know-how to Claude Code for security testers working on authorized targets.
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tabularis
Tabularis is a desktop SQL workspace that lets you query databases and connect AI agents like Claude and Cursor to your schema for people who work with databases.
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exa-mcp-server
exa-mcp-server is a connector that lets AI apps search the web and read web pages for you.
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tradingview-mcp
tradingview-mcp is an MCP server that gives AI assistants market data, screeners, technical analysis and backtests for stocks, crypto, forex and futures.
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OpenKnowledge
OpenKnowledge is a markdown editor that lets you edit notes and wikis with Claude, Codex, and other AI tools, stored privately on your computer.
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Flint
Flint is an MCP server that lets AI agents create good-looking charts from simple chart specs for anyone chatting with an agent.
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OpenScience
OpenScience is an agent app that runs scientific research tasks like literature review, data analysis, and reproducing experiments for researchers and analysts.
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serenity-skill
serenity-skill is a skill that maps supply-chain bottlenecks to stock and fund research priorities for individual investors.
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linkedin-mcp-server
linkedin-mcp-server is an MCP server that gives AI apps like Claude access to LinkedIn profiles, companies, jobs, and messages for research and outreach.
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Radar
Radar is a Kubernetes dashboard with a built-in MCP server that shows what is broken in a cluster and why, for operators and the AI agents helping them.
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nihaixia
Nihaixia is a skill that gives AI assistants a Traditional Chinese Medicine reasoning style based on Dr. Ni Haixia's teaching materials, for people studying or exploring TCM.
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VulnClaw
VulnClaw is an agent app that runs penetration tests from plain-language requests for security testers working on authorized targets.
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skills
skills is a catalog of instruction sets that teach Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents to use NVIDIA software for robotics, simulation, CUDA, and RAG work.
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DBHub
DBHub is an MCP server that lets AI apps query and explore your databases for developers and analysts, with read-only and row-limit guardrails.
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OpenBiliClaw
OpenBiliClaw is a local, open-source agent that finds content across Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, YouTube and other platforms based on your interests.
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LLM-for-Zotero
LLM-for-Zotero is an open-source research agent that lets you chat with, summarize, and organize papers in your Zotero library.
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Stealth Browser MCP
Stealth Browser MCP is an MCP server that lets AI apps control a real Chrome browser that avoids common bot checks, for developers and automation builders.
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RedAmon
RedAmon is an agent app that runs autonomous penetration tests and opens pull requests to fix the bugs it finds, for security testers and developers who own the systems they test.
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paper-search-mcp
paper-search-mcp is an MCP server that searches and downloads academic papers from many free sources for AI apps like Claude.
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kordoc
kordoc is a command-line tool and MCP server that converts Korean documents (HWP, HWPX, PDF, Office files) to Markdown for people working with government and office paperwork.
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korean-law-mcp
Korean-law-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI apps search Korean statutes, precedents, and ordinances and check legal citations for lawyers and researchers.
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Deep-Research-skills
Deep-Research-skills is a skill that runs structured web research on a topic in Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex, with the user approving each stage.
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webclaw
webclaw is a web extraction tool that turns websites into clean markdown or JSON for AI agents and apps, usable from a terminal, MCP, or API.
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Solana MCP by Vybe
Solana MCP by Vybe is an MCP server (a connector that lets AI apps like Claude use another tool) that gives AI apps live Solana wallet, token, and trade data.
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jshookmcp
jshook is an MCP server that gives AI agents a toolkit for reverse engineering JavaScript, WebAssembly, and apps for security research.
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Open Science Desktop
Open Science Desktop is a desktop app that runs AI research workflows from literature survey to paper, with a local, auditable record for researchers.
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last30days-skill-cn
last30days-skill-cn is a skill that researches recent Chinese internet discussions across eight platforms for AI agents, helping users track topics and gather sourced reports.
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Halo
Halo is a desktop AI workstation that runs AI team members on a schedule so work can be handed off without re-explaining it.
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easy-stock
easy-stock is a desktop app that helps A-share traders research stocks, track sector themes, and review the market with AI for active investors in China.
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WebBrain
WebBrain is a browser extension that puts an AI agent beside your tabs to answer questions about pages and carry out browser tasks for you.
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AKTools
AKTools is an HTTP API and MCP server that gives AI assistants and programs access to AKShare's financial data for stock and market research.
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llm-wiki
llm-wiki is a plugin that turns research sources into a searchable personal knowledge base for AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex.
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SoloMD
SoloMD is a markdown note editor that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor read and edit your notes folder for people who keep their notes as files.
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academic-pptx-skill
Academic-pptx-skill is a skill that helps Claude build academic slide decks for conference talks, seminars, thesis defenses, and grant briefings.
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imozuru
imozuru is a Claude Code skill that digs into an unfamiliar topic until it reaches the original sources, for people researching a field they do not know.
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ARTEX
ARTEX is an agent app that runs autonomous penetration tests in an isolated lab for security teams.
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learn-from-materials
learn-from-materials is a skill that turns PDFs, books and papers into interactive study webpages with sourced quizzes and notes for learners.
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EvoOntology
EvoOntology is a plugin that builds and evolves a semantic map of your data so AI coding agents can find the right tables and meanings for data analysis tasks.
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EasyRead
EasyRead is an app that translates English research papers into readable Chinese for people who read PDFs locally.
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Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance
Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance is a set of skills that adds compliance guidance for ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and many other frameworks to Claude for compliance teams.
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Eleven
Eleven is a reverse-engineering app that lets an AI agent read, explain, and patch compiled programs and Android apps for developers and security researchers.
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ModSearch
ModSearch is a web search plugin that gives AI models without web access live search, X search, and page reading for free.
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academic-commercialization-agent
Academic-commercialization-agent is an agent app that turns a research paper or topic into a cited assessment of technology readiness, patents, market and risks for tech-transfer teams.
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Copperhead
Copperhead is an AI agent that edits and checks real KiCad circuit board files from a prompt, for electronics engineers and hardware teams.
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DeepScient
DeepScient is a research workbench that guides scientists through topic selection, literature review, experiments, analysis, and writing with checkable evidence trails.
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Agent-Me
Agent-Me is a self-hosted framework that builds an inspectable AI twin of you from your own notes and decisions, for people who want an AI that answers from their own records.
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Baize
Baize is a command-line coding agent that redacts personal data before it reaches the model, for people who vibe code or analyze data.
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pi-dynamic-workflows
pi-dynamic-workflows is a plugin for the Pi coding agent that runs multi-agent workflows for large audits, reviews, and research.
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OpenGCUA
OpenGCUA is an open-source agent that runs on your Mac and completes multi-step computer tasks for developers.
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Tulpa
Tulpa is an MCP server that lets AI agents search chat history and Bilibili videos for people who work across QQ, WeChat, and Bilibili.
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dsh-video-storyboard
dsh-video-storyboard is a plugin that lets an AI model watch a video by reading one packed storyboard image and a timed text list, for anyone who needs to ask what happens at a given moment.
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MeetCap
MeetCap is a meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and writes minutes for busy professionals.
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ResiMind
ResiMind is a framework that checks AI agent answers with independent verifiers and reuses checked rules for math and support tasks for developers building agents.
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skills
Skills is a collection of portable security skills that teach AI agents to run authorized defensive assessments, pen tests, and detection checks for security teams.
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HyperGrok Trading Desk
HyperGrok is a set of AI agent roles, skills and read-only market tools that help research and review Hyperliquid trades before any order is placed.
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Argo
Argo is a search tool for AI agents that queries 284 sources across many languages and topics, for agents doing web research.
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EveryInfra MCP Server & Agent Plugin
EveryInfra is an MCP server that lets AI agents read public data from TikTok, Amazon and other platforms for researchers and marketers.
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iran-mcp
iran-mcp is a set of 68 MCP servers that let AI agents search Iranian websites and compare prices in Toman for Iranian shoppers and users.
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fastbrowse
fastbrowse is a browser agent that completes web tasks and cites page quotes for its answers, for people who need checked results from websites.
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OntoPoc
OntoPoc is an agent app that drafts a business data model from spreadsheets or documents and checks it against the data, for data platform consultants.
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Best-Paper-Writing-Skill
Best-Paper-Writing-Skill is a skill that drafts research paper abstracts, introductions, methods and experiments in the style of award-winning CVPR, ICCV and NeurIPS papers for researchers writing submissions.
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Executioner
Executioner is a desktop app that runs AI agent teams and security tools for authorized penetration testing, keeping scope, targets, findings and evidence in one local workspace.
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Solevia
Solevia is a desktop planning assistant that turns a vague goal into a schedule and daily tasks for people learning or building new skills.
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Grounded SAM
Grounded SAM is a demo tool that finds and cuts out objects in images from text descriptions for developers and researchers.
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Local Code
Local Code is an agent app that works through your files on Mac, iPad or iPhone, running models on the device for private work.
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Multi-agent Deep-research System
Multi-agent Deep-research System is an agent app that produces detailed technical research reports on a topic for people who need thorough written research.
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Parsimony
Parsimony is a benchmark that ranks AI coding models by how much extra code they add to fix bugs, for developers comparing models.
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rStation
rStation is a research community website where independent AI agents discuss open math and science problems and publish reviewed papers.