950 Verified Capabilities (183 Templates · 343 MCPs · 246 Skills · 178 Use Cases)

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Category Hub · /c/research ✓ 67 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

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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 ✓

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Grok Template ✓ Claimed

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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 ✓

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Grok Template ✓ Claimed

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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 ✓

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Use Case

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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

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Aayat AI MCP

Domain-specific research and structured knowledge synthesis MCP server for autonomous agents.

Research & Intel @aayatai ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 94

ChatG.pt / CustomGPT.ai MCP

Connect your enterprise knowledge base and RAG agents to any MCP host with hallucination-free citations.

Research & Intel @CustomGPT ✓

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

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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 ✓

Grok Template

⚡ 80

Technical Prior-Art & Patent Landscape Mapper

Searches Google Patents, academic citations, and open-source implementations to build a structured prior-art matrix for R&D teams.

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

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Use Case

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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

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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

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Daily GitHub Trending MCP & Agent Skill Scout

Scans newly starred GitHub repositories tagged with `model-context-protocol`, `claude-skills`, or `cursorrules` and evaluates code quality.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

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Agent Skill

⚡ 90

DuckDB Embedded OLAP & Parquet Lakehouse Playbook

Query remote S3/R2 Parquet datasets, JSON logs, and CSV exports in-memory at gigabytes per second with DuckDB.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

Grok Template

⚡ 88

Bottom-Up ICP Market Sizing & TAM Modeler

Combines firmographic directory counts, pricing tiers, and adoption benchmarks into a transparent bottom-up TAM/SAM/SOM spreadsheet.

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

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Grok Template

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Public SaaS 10-K & Earnings Call KPI Extractor

Extracts net dollar retention (NDR), gross margin, R&D spend, and AI commentary from public software earnings transcripts into Google Sheets.

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

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Grok Template

⚡ 89

Podcast Guest Deep-Research & Question Architect

Reviews a guest's recent essays, X threads, and past podcast appearances via TranscriptAPI to craft 12 non-obvious interview questions.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

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Grok Template

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Competitor Review & Switching-Trigger Miner

Analyzes 1-to-3 star competitor reviews and community forums to categorize recurring reliability, pricing, and UX complaints for sales battlecards.

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

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Grok Template

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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 ✓

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MCP Server

⚡ 90

Financial Datasets MCP — Stock market API made for AI agents

Stock market API made for AI agents via the open-source Financial Datasets Model Context Protocol server.

Research & Intel @gergelyorosz ✓

Grok Template

⚡ 90

Open-Source License Compliance & SBOM Auditor

Inspects transitive dependency licenses across npm, PyPI, and Cargo lockfiles to flag copyleft (GPL/AGPL) obligations before enterprise releases.

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

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Grok Template

⚡ 84

Daily arXiv AI Systems & Inference Digest Bot

Filters daily cs.CL, cs.AI, and cs.LG submissions for practical agent, RAG, and quantization breakthroughs with reproducible GitHub repos.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

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Grok Template

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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 ✓

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MCP Server

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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 ✓

Use Case

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7-Day Post-Launch Feature Adoption & Retention Retro

Measure 7-day discovery, activation, and repeat usage of newly shipped features in PostHog against pre-launch hypothesis targets.

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

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

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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

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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 ✓

Grok Template

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Enterprise RFP & Security Evidence Researcher

Searches internal Notion security policies, SOC2 docs, and architecture pages to draft cited answers for enterprise RFP questionnaires.

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

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Grok Template

⚡ 85

YouTube Conference Talk to Engineering Runbook Bot

Pulls timestamped transcripts from engineering conference talks via TranscriptAPI and extracts architecture diagrams, benchmarks, and code patterns.

Research & Intel @gergelyorosz ✓

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Use Case

⚡ 87

Weekly Voice-of-Customer Roadmap Evidence Matrix

Aggregate feature requests from Attio deal notes, Slack Connect channels, and GitHub discussions weighted by account ARR.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

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 ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 85

Driflyte MCP — MCP Server for Driflyte. The Driflyte MCP Server exposes tools that

MCP Server for Driflyte. The Driflyte MCP Server exposes tools that allow AI assistants to query and retrieve topic-specific knowledge from recursively cra

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 90

Kagi Search MCP — Search the web using Kagi's search API

Search the web using Kagi's search API via the open-source Kagi Search Model Context Protocol server.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 84

4Everland Hosting MCP — An MCP server implementation for 4EVERLAND Hosting enabling instant

An MCP server implementation for 4EVERLAND Hosting enabling instant deployment of AI-generated code to decentralized storage networks like Greenfield, IPFS

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

Grok Template

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Developer Docs & DX Friction Benchmark Bot

Evaluates time-to-first-200-OK, quickstart clarity, and `/llms.txt` completeness across competitor developer documentation sites.

Research & Intel @swyx ✓

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Grok Template

⚡ 86

Hacker News & X Developer Sentiment Monitor

Tracks brand mentions, competitor debates, and category keywords across Hacker News and X, summarizing top technical complaints and feature gaps.

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

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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

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Chroma MCP — Embeddings, vector search, document storage, and full-text search wi

Embeddings, vector search, document storage, and full-text search with the open-source AI application database

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 88

Crawlbase MCP — Enables AI agents to access real-time web data with HTML, markdown

Enables AI agents to access real-time web data with HTML, markdown, and screenshot support. SDKs: Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, .NET.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

MCP Server

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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 ✓

Use Case

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Autonomous ML Paper & Benchmark Reproduction in E2B Sandbox

Fetch newly published AI engineering repositories, execute their benchmark scripts inside an isolated E2B microVM, and log verified throughput.

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

Grok Template

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Competitor Changelog & Pricing Tier Radar

Scrapes competitor changelog, docs, and pricing pages daily via Firecrawl, diffs structural changes, and posts a GTM impact brief to Slack.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

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Agent Skill

⚡ 89

Qdrant Hybrid Dense + Sparse BM25 Vector Search Playbook

Configure Qdrant collections with HNSW quantization, payload indexing, and Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF).

Research & Intel @simonw ✓

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__ ✓

Grok Template

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User Research Transcript & Theme Synthesizer

Ingests customer discovery call transcripts, tags jobs-to-be-done, pain points, and willingness-to-pay quotes, and updates the Notion research hub.

Research & Intel @gergelyorosz ✓

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MCP Server

⚡ 96

Unstructured MCP

Partition, clean, and chunk complex PDFs, PPTX decks, and HTML tables into LLM-ready elements via Unstructured MCP.

Research & Intel @UnstructuredIO ✓

MCP Server

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Thordata MCP

SERP API, residential proxy network, and structured web scraping MCP server built for high-scale AI data pipelines.

Research & Intel @ThordataTeam ✓

MCP Server

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AWS Bedrock KB Retrieval MCP — Query Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases using natural language to retri

Query Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases using natural language to retrieve relevant information from your data sources.

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

MCP Server

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BulkTranscripts MCP

Let your Grok Bot read whole YouTube channels and playlists as transcripts.

Research & Intel @attenisalluneed ✓

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

⚡ 92

RawTree MCP

Give your Grok Bot a schema-free analytics database it can write events to and query.

Research & Intel @rmorehig ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 96

Hyperbrowser MCP

Scrape dynamic SPAs, crawl entire domains, and run autonomous browser-use agents in secure cloud containers via MCP.

Research & Intel @hyperbrowser ✓

Use Case

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Automated Competitor Onboarding Teardown & Step Counter

Walk public signup and documentation flows in Playwright to log click counts, time-to-value, and UI patterns into a Notion teardown page.

Research & Intel @gergelyorosz ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 95

DC Hub MCP

Live data center, power, grid and fiber data for site selection, with citations.

Research & Intel @dchubcloud ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 86

Campertunity MCP — Search campgrounds around the world on campertunity, check availabil

Search campgrounds around the world on campertunity, check availability, and provide booking links.

Research & Intel @melvindvivas ✓

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

Memory MCP — Knowledge graph-based persistent memory system

Knowledge graph-based persistent memory system via the open-source Memory Model Context Protocol server.

Research & Intel @alexalbert__ ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 96

MotherDuck MCP

Execute blazing-fast serverless DuckDB SQL queries across local Parquet files and cloud data lakes via MCP.

Research & Intel @motherduck ✓

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 ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 95

LUSCA AI MCP

LUSCA AI — Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and autonomous agent integration for #research workflows.

Research & Intel @lusca_ai ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 89

APIMatic MCP — APIMatic MCP Server is used to validate OpenAPI specifications using

APIMatic MCP Server is used to validate OpenAPI specifications using APIMatic. The server processes OpenAPI files and returns validation summaries by lever

Research & Intel @transcriptapi ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 98

Chunkr MCP

Convert documents into RAG-optimized semantic chunks with bounding-box citations using vision-language models via MCP.

Research & Intel @chunkrai ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 96

TubeAlfred MCP

Give your Grok Bot read-only access to any public YouTube video, channel, or playlist.

Research & Intel @vikashkprajapat ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 98

LlamaCloud (LlamaIndex) MCP

Parse complex PDFs/spreadsheets with LlamaParse and query managed enterprise indexes via the Official LlamaCloud MCP.

Research & Intel @llama_index ✓

MCP Server

⚡ 97

Reducto MCP

Extract pixel-accurate tables, checkboxes, and multi-column layouts from complex financial and legal PDFs via MCP.

Research & Intel @reductoai ✓

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