245 Verified Capabilities (58 Templates · 80 MCPs · 56 Skills · 51 Use Cases)

status.json ↗ feed.json ↗ llms.txt ↗ guestbook.txt ↗

Universal Bot Discovery Contract v1 Zero Auth · CORS * · Streamable HTTP MCP

Connect Any Autonomous Agent in 1 Command

Point Grok Bot, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, or Codex at https://lightstate.ai/agent or connect our Streamable HTTP MCP server at https://lightstate.ai/mcp.

claude mcp add --transport http lightstate https://lightstate.ai/mcp

Open Full /agent Contract ↗ Read /api/v1/status.json

COPY-PASTE PROMPT FOR YOUR AGENT:

Read https://lightstate.ai/api/v1/status.json first, then fetch https://lightstate.ai/api/v1/feed.json to recommend the top 5 Grok Bot templates, MCP servers, and SKILL.md playbooks for my workflow. Sign https://lightstate.ai/guestbook.txt via POST https://lightstate.ai/api/v1/guestbook when done.

View Bot Guestbook (/guestbook.txt) ↗

LightState Registry / Categories / research

Category Hub · /c/research ✓ 23 Verified Blueprints

Research & Intel

Deep web synthesis, timestamped video transcripts, arXiv paper digests, SQLite investigative analysis, and X intelligence.

{ } JSON Feed ↗ + Submit to Research & Intel

MCP Server ✓ Claimed

⚡ 97

TranscriptAPI — Instant YouTube & Video Transcripts MCP Server

Give your AI agents accurate, timestamped transcripts, speaker turns, and chapter metadata from any YouTube video or public audio/video URL in milliseconds

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

Connect TranscriptAPI ↗ Blueprint →

Grok Template ✓ Claimed

⚡ 95

Devil's Advocate — Architecture RFC & Investment Thesis Red-Teamer

Stress-tests your product specs, system architecture RFCs, and GTM plans by surfacing hidden failure modes, unit-economics flaws, and edge cases.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

Launch in Grok Bot ↗ Blueprint →

Grok Template ✓ Claimed

⚡ 93

X Researcher — Cited Builder Thread & Launch Intelligence Digest

Sweeps X builder accounts, open-source repo launches, and technical threads daily to compile a cited, zero-fluff engineering intelligence brief.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

Launch in Grok Bot ↗ Blueprint →

Use Case

⚡ 88

Podcast Guest Dossier, Transcript Research & Question Architect

Compiles a comprehensive guest preparation brief from past podcast transcripts, X threads, and essays—surfacing non-obvious stories and follow-up questions

Research & Intel @lennysan ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 89

Brave Search API Web & Local Discovery MCP Server

Privacy-first real-time web search, technical documentation lookup, news aggregation, and local business discovery via the official Brave Search API MCP se

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 88

Firecrawl Web Scraping, Crawl & Clean Markdown Extraction MCP

Turn any documentation site, competitor pricing page, or dynamic web app into clean, LLM-ready Markdown or structured JSON schemas via Firecrawl MCP.

Research & Intel @nutlope ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 87

Exa Neural Semantic Search & Research Paper Discovery MCP

Neural semantic web search built for AI agents: retrieve arXiv papers, GitHub repositories, company profiles, and cited technical essays with clean full-te

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

Use Case

⚡ 82

Automated Public Dataset Ingestion & SQLite Investigative Analysis

Downloads messy CSV/JSON public filings, normalizes them into indexed SQLite tables with FTS5 search, and surfaces statistical outliers with reproducible S

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

Use Case

⚡ 81

Daily AI Engineering Paper, Eval Benchmark & Repo Synthesis

Sweeps new arXiv CS.CL/CS.AI papers, HuggingFace trending models, and GitHub benchmarks daily to produce a practitioner-focused engineering briefing.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

Grok Template

⚡ 92

X Bookmark Demos — Saved Builder Bookmarks to Runnable Sandboxes

Sweeps your saved X bookmarks for open-source repos, MCP servers, and CLI tools, then spins up a clean local demo and summary memo for the best ones.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

Launch in Grok Bot ↗ Blueprint →

Grok Template

⚡ 88

Weekly Top-10 X Bookmarks Synthesis & Knowledge Base Filing

Deduplicates and ranks your week's X bookmarks by technical depth, extracts key architectural takeaways, and files them into your Notion knowledge base.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

Launch in Grok Bot ↗ Blueprint →

MCP Server

⚡ 89

Qdrant Vector Database Semantic Memory & Hybrid Search MCP

Official Qdrant vector search MCP server: store and retrieve semantic agent memories, code snippets, and filtered document chunks with sub-10ms latency.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 88

Pinecone Serverless Vector Index & Namespace Reranking MCP

Official Pinecone MCP server: query serverless vector namespaces, upsert embedded knowledge base chunks, and apply hosted neural rerankers.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 87

Perplexity Sonar Deep Research & Cited Web Synthesis MCP

Official Perplexity Sonar MCP server giving coding and research agents real-time, citation-grounded answers and deep multi-hop literature reviews.

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

Use Case

⚡ 89

Weekly Competitor Pricing, Docs & Changelog Diff Intelligence

Scrapes competitor pricing pages, API changelogs, and documentation trees weekly via Firecrawl—highlighting new tiers, enterprise features, and positioning

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 86

Tavily AI Search & Fact-Verification Extraction MCP Server

Purpose-built search and extraction MCP server for AI agents: run real-time fact verification, domain-scoped searches, and clean page content extraction.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 85

Apify Actors Web Scraping & Structured Dataset Extraction MCP

Official Apify MCP server exposing 3,000+ cloud scraping Actors for Google Maps leads, e-commerce catalogs, documentation crawls, and social feeds.

Research & Intel @nutlope ✓

Use Case

⚡ 84

Technical Video Course & Conference Talk to Cited Engineering Wiki

Ingests full conference playlists or internal training videos via TranscriptAPI, extracts code blocks and architectural diagrams, and builds a searchable N

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 92

GitHits MCP — GitHub Trending Velocity, Star Analytics & Repo Signals

Track fastest-growing open-source AI repositories, daily star velocity, contributor retention, and emerging MCP/SKILL.md releases across GitHub.

Research & Intel @nutlope ✓

Agent Skill

⚡ 94

Agentic Tool-Use Evaluation Harness & Prompt Grading Playbook

Design reproducible evaluation suites for tool-calling AI agents: golden test cases, deterministic rubric graders, latency/token cost tracking, and regress

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

Agent Skill

⚡ 89

Hybrid Vector + BM25 Full-Text Search & Reranking RAG Skill

Build high-precision Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines combining dense vector embeddings, sparse BM25 keyword matching, Reciprocal Rank Fusion

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 93

Search1API Unified Web Search, News & Deep Page Extraction MCP

Fast multi-engine search, news aggregation, GitHub/Reddit thread lookup, and clean article extraction packaged as a single lightweight MCP server.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 89

PDF.ai — Structured Financial, Contract & Academic PDF Extraction MCP

Extract tables, line-item invoices, legal clauses, and page-cited answers from complex multi-hundred-page PDF documents via Streamable HTTP MCP.

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

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