AI agents that help you research a topic across the web
167 AI agents and agent tools that help you research a topic across the web. 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: Survival LLM, DeepTutor, and LearnHarness.
- 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
Survival LLM
Survival LLM is an agent app that answers emergency and survival questions offline on your own computer, citing its sources, for households and anyone without reliable internet.
- #2
DeepTutor
DeepTutor is a self-hosted AI tutor that turns your own documents and notes into personalized lessons for learners.
- #3
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.
- #4
day-trader-skill
Day-trader-skill is a set of 11 Claude skills that scans charts, tracks news, times entries and exits, and simulates trade outcomes for day traders.
- #5
AiSOC
AiSOC is a self-hosted security operations center that triages security alerts with AI agents for security teams.
- #6
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.
- #7
XERJ
XERJ is a local search engine and MCP server that lets AI agents search code, docs and logs without reading files one by one, for developers and coding-agent users.
- #8
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.
- #9
Replica Skill
Replica skill is a set of eleven free Claude skills that clone an existing app's features and fix what its users dislike, for people building a sellable app.
- #10
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.
- #11
Noria
Noria is an agent app that finds jobs and scholarships from web pages and scores them against your profile, sending results to WhatsApp.
- #12
treg
treg is a registry that gives AI agents one token and one base URL to call many paid data and media tools, billed per call, for teams that do not want separate vendor accounts.
- #13
Agenvoy
Agenvoy is a self-hosted agent that runs on your own computer and completes multi-step work like research and file tasks for people who want results, not just answers.
- #14
graphify
Graphify is a skill that turns a project's code, docs, and PDFs into a queryable map for AI coding assistants, so they can answer questions without rereading every file.
- #15
Endoplexity
Endoplexity is a Chrome side panel that lets an AI agent click, type, and navigate your open browser tabs for people who already pay for Claude or Cursor.
- #16
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.
- #17
headcount
Headcount is a set of skill plugins that gives Claude Code or ChatGPT specialist departments like finance, security, and marketing for business questions.
- #18
API Anything
API Anything is an MCP server that turns websites without an API into callable operations for AI agents, so agents can skip the browser.
- #19
founder-skill
founder-skill is a set of eleven free Claude skills that test a business idea before launch for solo founders and small business owners.
- #20
Claude-Red
Claude-Red is a library of offensive security skills that teaches Claude red team methods for authorized security testing.
- #21
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.
- #22
Helix Foundry
Helix Foundry is an agent app that maps company data into a queryable graph for analysts and business teams.
- #23
Answer me with HTML
Answer me with HTML is a skill that answers hard questions with a readable one-page HTML page for anyone.
- #24
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.
- #25
OpenSEO
OpenSEO is an open source SEO tool that gives you keyword, backlink, and audit data and lets AI agents like Claude Code use it, for people who find Semrush or Ahrefs too costly.
- #26
Grandet
Grandet is a skill and MCP server that finds the lowest listed API price for an AI model and helps connect it for people who need cheap model access.
- #27
WeChatBridge
WeChatBridge is a native macOS tool that sends selected WeChat chat history to AI agents or Obsidian for summaries and notes.
- #28
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.
- #29
WinShun
WinShun is a free, open-source Windows search launcher that finds files, text inside documents, and apps by name or pinyin.
- #30
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.
- #31
AIHOT
AIHOT is a self-hosted framework that finds, scores, and writes daily industry news digests for a specific field.
- #32
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.
- #33
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.
- #34
LiveStream Agent Studio
LiveStream Agent Studio is a Windows agent app that organizes creator research, livestream transcripts, and review reports for livestream commerce teams.
- #35
jevgrep
jevgrep is a command-line tool that finds relevant code by answering plain questions about what a codebase does, for developers working with coding agents.
- #36
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.
- #37
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.
- #38
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.
- #39
Scientific Agent Skills
Scientific Agent Skills is a collection of 177 skills that teaches an AI agent scientific tools and databases for research work.
- #40
Claudemy
Claudemy is a Claude Code skill that builds a short audio course on any topic you name, with cited sources, for people who want to learn a subject without a long course.
- #41
Carrel
Carrel is a self-hosted knowledge base that lets AI agents search your own documents and their related facts for accurate answers.
- #42
new-term-radar
new-term-radar is a Python tool that finds new AI product and model names early, before keyword tools list them, for people who publish pages or posts about AI tools.
- #43
anything2explainer
anything2explainer is a skill that turns a topic or article into a narrated explainer video for people who want a finished video without filming or animating it themselves.
- #44
Open Duet
Open Duet is a self-hosted app that lets you create named AI coworkers with their own instructions, memory, and routines for small team tasks.
- #45
Superhero Skills
Superhero Skills is a skill plugin that gives AI agents structured ways to run product discovery and design work for product builders.
- #46
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.
- #47
Graphicle
Graphicle is a local MCP server that gives coding agents a code graph and project memory with cited file excerpts for developers.
- #48
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.
- #49
court-skill
Court-skill is a Claude Code skill that puts your idea on trial with a jury of 12 Claude agents, for anyone who wants a critical check on a plan.
- #50
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.
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AutoGPT
AutoGPT is a team of AI Experts that takes a plain-English brief and does research, content, sales, and recurring work for business owners and marketers.
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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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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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ai-job-search
ai-job-search is a framework that runs on Claude Code to evaluate job postings, tailor CVs, and write cover letters for job seekers.
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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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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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PostHog
PostHog is a product analytics platform that collects usage, error, and replay data so you and your AI agents can diagnose problems and find fixes.
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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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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.
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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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PentAGI
PentAGI is a self-hosted agent app that runs automated penetration tests against a target you describe in plain language, for security professionals.
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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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pm-skills
PM Skills is a set of 69 skills and 42 guided workflows that help product managers make product decisions with Claude Code, Cowork, and other AI assistants.
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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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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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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.
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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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Skill Seekers
Skill Seekers is a tool that turns documentation sites, GitHub repos, and PDFs into Claude skills for developers and AI builders.
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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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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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QuantDinger
QuantDinger is a self-hosted AI trading platform that turns trading ideas into Python strategies, backtests, and paper or live trades for traders.
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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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crm
CRM is an open source customer database that runs its own research agent to find and record facts about contacts and companies for sales teams.
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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.
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claude-ads
Claude Ads is a skill for Claude Code that audits ad account data across twelve ad platforms for marketers and agencies.
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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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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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Product-Manager-Skills
Product-Manager-Skills is a library of 77 product management frameworks that teaches Claude, Codex, and similar agents to write PRDs, plan discovery, and set priorities for product managers.
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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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Waza
Waza is a set of eight skills that teach Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor engineering habits like planning, debugging, and reviewing code.
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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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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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Kun
Kun is a desktop agent app that runs coding, writing, design, and research tasks on your own computer for developers and writers who want local control.
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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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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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Agentic-Bug-Hunter
Agentic-Bug-Hunter is a terminal tool that runs bug bounty recon and vulnerability hunting, then writes submission-ready reports for security bounty programs.
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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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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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Claude Octopus
Claude Octopus is a plugin for Claude Code that runs several AI models on the same task to flag disagreements before you ship.
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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.
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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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agent-memory
agent-memory is a long-term memory runtime that lets AI agents like Claude Code and Codex remember past sessions, using plain Markdown files, with no API key.
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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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NotFair Plugin
NotFair Plugin is a set of open-source SEO, GEO, and paid ad skills that teaches Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI practical marketing workflows.
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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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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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PipesHub
PipesHub is an open-source platform that connects a company's Slack, Drive, GitHub and other business systems to AI agents, with each person's permissions respected, for teams that want self-hosted company search.
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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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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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designer-skills
Designer Skills is a collection of skills and commands that teach Claude Code and Gemini CLI to help with design work from research to delivery for designers.
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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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writing-dna-skill
writing-dna-skill is a skill that distills an author's writing style from a set of full articles so an AI agent can imitate it for writers and content creators.
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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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x64dbg-mcp-server
x64dbg-mcp-server is an MCP server that lets AI assistants control the x64dbg debugger for reverse engineering programs and malware.
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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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Jarvis
Jarvis is a private desktop AI assistant that runs on your own computer, with voice and text chat, personal memory and optional tools, for people who want to keep their conversations local.
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mcp-gsc
mcp-gsc is an MCP server that lets AI assistants like Claude analyze Google Search Console data for SEO work.
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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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Gortex
Gortex is a code-intelligence engine that lets AI coding agents find code without reading whole files, cutting token use for developers working across repositories.
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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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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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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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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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deja-vu
deja-vu is a local memory tool that lets coding agents search past sessions so they stop repeating solved bugs for developers using Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.
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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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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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claude-skills-founder
claude-skills-founder is a set of Claude Code skills that help founders validate ideas, research competitors, set pricing, and draft pitch decks and launch plans for their startup.
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Jarvis
Jarvis is a voice-controlled desktop assistant that uses Claude Code to do tasks for you through your existing tools, with a holographic browser interface.
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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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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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HF Realtime Voice
HF Realtime Voice is a browser voice chat app that lets you talk to a speech assistant that can search the web.
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semrush-ai-tool
semrush-ai-tool is an MCP server and command-line tool that lets AI assistants pull live Semrush SEO data for keyword research and competitor analysis.
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grok-self
grok-self is a command-line app that lets you chat with xAI's Grok AI from your terminal for people comfortable with a terminal window.
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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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Awwwards-mcp
Awwwards-mcp is an MCP server that lets AI coding agents search award-winning websites for design inspiration and rebuild their layouts for people building websites.
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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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RES
RES is a skill that turns a SaaS product into a build kit for rebuilding it, using a browser study, for teams planning a clone or competitor.
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vibe-knowledge
vibe-knowledge is a Claude Code skill that turns one knowledge topic into a narrated, sourced explainer video for creators who want short educational clips.
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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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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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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.