Research

MCP servers and skills for in-depth web and document research: gathering, summarizing and preparing sources with citations.

Entries in this category

Published entries only. Guides are counted separately.

Total catalog entries
66
MCP servers
42
Skills
19
Guides
21
Workflows
1
Plugins
0
Harness components
0
AI assistants
4

Free Research skills

Usable without license costs.

Account Research

Free

Official Anthropic skill for structured company and people research before sales outreach.

Anthropic

Call Prep

Free

Official Anthropic skill for structured sales call preparation.

Anthropic

Competitive Analysis

Free

Creates evidence-based competitive analyses with comparison matrices, positioning, and strategic implications.

Anthropic

Competitive Intelligence

Free

Creates interactive HTML battlecards for structured competitive research.

Anthropic

Cookbook Audit

Free

Audits Anthropic Cookbook notebooks systematically against a style and quality rubric.

Anthropic

Customer Research

Free

Multi-source customer research with source attribution, confidence levels, and clear escalation boundaries.

Anthropic

Draft Outreach

Free

Official Anthropic skill for researched and personalized sales outreach.

Anthropic

Knowledge Synthesis

Free

Official Anthropic skill for traceable, deduplicated answers synthesized from multiple enterprise sources.

Anthropic

Microsoft Code Reference

Free

Source-oriented research for Microsoft APIs, Azure SDKs, .NET libraries, and verified code samples.

GitHub

Microsoft Docs

Free

Official GitHub skill for precise research across Microsoft documentation.

GitHub

OpenAI Docs

Free

Official skill for current OpenAI documentation research with sources and clear product boundaries.

OpenAI

OpenAI Knowledge

Free

Source-oriented research in current official OpenAI documentation for integration questions.

OpenAI

Scientific Problem Selection

Free

Anthropic conversational framework for systematic scientific problem selection, evaluation, and strategic project development.

Anthropic

Scientific Slides

Free

A scientific presentation skill with PowerPoint, PDF, and LaTeX Beamer workflows, templates, and visual review.

davila7

Search Strategy

Free

Official Anthropic skill for decomposed, source-aware, and prioritized enterprise search.

Anthropic

Source Management

Free

Detect connected enterprise sources, expand search coverage, manage priorities, and handle rate limits transparently.

Anthropic

User Research Synthesis

Free

Turn interviews, surveys, and feedback into evidenced themes, user segments, and prioritized opportunities.

Anthropic

WorkIQ Copilot

Free

Official GitHub Copilot skill for using WorkIQ to query Microsoft 365 context, communications, documents, and schedules.

GitHub

nextflow-development

Free

Guided nf-core analyses for RNA-seq, WGS/WES, and ATAC-seq with Nextflow, reproducible test profiles, and verifiable outputs.

Anthropic

Research workflows

Processes that combine several building blocks into one task.

Research MCP servers

Servers commonly used in this category.

AI Research Assistant

Official Free

Remote MCP server for scholarly search, author analysis, and citation networks with Semantic Scholar.

Hamid Vakilzadeh

28

GitHub

Agent News MCP Server

Official Free

Official Agent News MCP Server – verified real-time news and stats on the AI agent economy.

The Agent Times

Apify MCP Server

Official

Official Apify MCP for Actors, web-data extraction, and automation in an AI client.

Apify

8,755

GitHub

BCB SGS MCP Server

Free

Research Brazilian economic indicators, Focus expectations and PTAX exchange rates.

Sidney Bissoli

BLS Labor MCP Server

Free

Research US labor and price statistics through a community MCP server.

cyanheads

Brave Search MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server by Brave for web search, local places, videos, images, news, and AI summarization via Brave's independent index.

Brave Software, Inc.

1,432

GitHub

Bright Data MCP Server

Official

Official Bright Data MCP: web search, scraping, structured data extraction, and browser automation for AI agents.

Bright Data

2,660

GitHub

DC Hub — Power, Energy & Data Center Intelligence

Official Free

Remote MCP server for live data-center, power-grid, energy, and infrastructure intelligence.

DC Hub

2

GitHub

Data Fair MCP Server

Official Free

Discover, understand and analyze Data Fair datasets through targeted queries.

Koumoul

DataHub MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server for searching and inspecting DataHub metadata, lineage, and trust signals from an AI client.

Acryl Data

81

GitHub

EIA Energy MCP Server

Free

Explore US energy statistics through the EIA API and a community MCP server.

cyanheads

EmblemAI MCP

Official

Hosted EmblemAI MCP server for wallet, blockchain, NFT, market, and research workflows with explicitly separated transaction access.

EmblemAI

12

GitHub

Exa MCP Server

Official

Official hosted Exa MCP for web search, webpage fetching, and optional multi-step research in an AI client.

Exa

5,055

GitHub

Ferryhopper

Official

Remote MCP server from Ferryhopper for ferry ports, connections, trip discovery, and a safer booking handoff.

Ferryhopper

Fetch MCP

Official Free

Official MCP reference server for fetching and converting web content to markdown.

Model Context Protocol

Firecrawl MCP Server

Official Free

Official Firecrawl MCP server for web scraping, web search, multi-page crawling, document parsing, and recurring page monitoring.

Firecrawl

7,525

GitHub

Gondola MCP Server

Official Free

Official remote MCP server for travel, hotel, flight, and rental-car search with cash-versus-points comparison.

Gondola

Hugging Face MCP Server

Official Free

Official Hugging Face MCP server that lets AI assistants search Hub models, datasets, papers, and Spaces, and use community tools.

Hugging Face

300

GitHub

IBGE Brasil MCP

Official Free

Remote MCP server from Sidney Bissoli for live, citable data from Brazil’s official statistics and geography institute IBGE.

Sidney Bissoli

9

GitHub

IMF MCP Server

Free

Explore IMF macroeconomic data through an independent community server.

cyanheads

Jina AI MCP Server

Official

Jina AI official remote MCP endpoint for web search, reading, embeddings, reranking, and source-grounded work.

Jina AI

845

GitHub

KPI Depot MCP Server

Official Free

Research KPI definitions, formulas and access-dependent benchmarks from an AI client.

KPI Depot

Keenable Web Search

Official Free

Keenable remote MCP server for ranked web search and clean page-content retrieval.

Keenable

Listen to Sadhu

Official Free

Vedic scripture and recorded lectures via MCP

Mapbox MCP Server

Official Free

Official Mapbox MCP server: geocoding, routing, travel-time zones, and map images directly in your AI client.

Mapbox

357

GitHub

Medical Terminologies MCP

Official Free

Remote MCP server from Sidney Bissoli for documented search and mapping across medical terminologies.

Sidney Bissoli

12

GitHub

Menjometre MCP Server

Official Free

Read-only MCP server for open data on grants, contracts, and public transparency in Catalonia.

Feeder LLC

Niche

Official

Remote MCP server from SailQuery for signal research, story angles, brand voice, and platform-native content workflows.

SailQuery

OurAirports MCP Server

Free

Look up airport codes and geographic reference data from a bundled OurAirports dataset.

cyanheads

Perplexity MCP Server

Official

Official Perplexity MCP for current web search, research, and reasoning in an AI client.

Perplexity AI, Inc.

2,544

GitHub

Pick an Agency MCP Server

Official Free

Search marketing agencies and build a reasoned shortlist from directory data.

Pick an Agency

PubMed MCP Server

Official Free

Remote MCP server from Casey Hand for searching, reviewing, and citing biomedical literature.

Casey Hand

148

GitHub

Qdrant MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server that stores information in Qdrant and retrieves it through semantic search.

Qdrant

1,539

GitHub

SAP MCP Server

Official

OOBE Protocol hosted SAP MCP server for Synapse Agent Protocol, Solana, identity, payment, and transaction tools.

OOBE Protocol

3

GitHub

Socialcrawl MCP Server

Official Free

Official MCP server for SocialCrawl data from social media, reviews, trends, search, and web research.

SocialCrawl

24

GitHub

SparkForge MCP Server

Official Free

Remote MCP server for utility APIs covering media, documents, web, development, and crypto research.

SparkForge

Tavily MCP Server

Official

Official Tavily MCP server for web search, extraction, website mapping, and crawling directly in a connected AI client of choice.

Tavily

2,411

GitHub

URL Safety Validator MCP

Official Free

Remote MCP server for checking untrusted URLs before fetching, visiting, or forwarding them.

Kord Agencies

1

GitHub

Zipp

Official Free

Official hosted MCP server for multilingual crypto news with editorial signals and source attribution.

Deficlow

1

GitHub

cityparity MCP Server

Official Free

Remote MCP server from cityparity for transparent city, relocation, and cost-of-living comparisons.

Skyler Bissell

2

GitHub

lahend MCP Server

Official Free

Free MCP server for Estonian case law: full-text search of court decisions and legislation, linked to the business register.

lahend

nimistuMCP

Official Free

Official read-only MCP server from nimistu.ee for traceable Estonian business and register data.

Nimistu MTÜ

1

GitHub

Research AI assistants

AI assistants for this category.

Matching providers

Who publishes in this category.

Acryl Data

Verified

Acryl Data is the company behind DataHub, a metadata platform for AI and data context management. The company operates b...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Anthropic

Verified

Anthropic is the company behind Claude and Claude Code. In the anthropics/claude-plugins-official repository, Anthropic...

0 MCP-Server · 62 Skills

Apify

Verified

Apify operates a marketplace of ready-to-run automation tools called Actors, and publishes the official Apify MCP Server...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Brave Software, Inc.

Verified

Brave Software builds the eponymous, Chromium-based browser that blocks ads and trackers by default, along with Brave Se...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Bright Data

Verified

Bright Data operates a web data infrastructure platform for searching, crawling, extracting, and acting on data across t...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Casey Hand

Verified

According to the provider, Casey Hand publishes the cyanheads PubMed MCP Server as an Apache-2.0 licensed service for bi...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

DC Hub

Verified

DC Hub operates an MCP server that provides live data-center facility, grid, fiber, and M&A (mergers and acquisitions) i...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Deficlow

Verified

Deficlow operates Zipp, a multilingual crypto news feed, and publishes the official Zipp MCP Server.

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

EmblemAI

Verified

EmblemAI is the platform operated by EmblemVault behind the documented agent-wallet and MCP offering for crypto workflow...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Exa

Verified

Exa Labs Inc. operates a search API built specifically for AI agents and applications, describing its mission as working...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Feeder LLC

Verified

According to the legal notice, Feeder LLC operates Menjometre, an independent transparency portal for public spending in...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Ferryhopper

Verified

Ferryhopper operates a ferry ticket booking platform and acts as an aggregator, making offers from more than 360 ferry o...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Firecrawl

Verified

Firecrawl provides an API for searching, fetching, and interacting with websites, turning unstructured web content into...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

GitHub

Verified

GitHub operates the world's most widely used platform for code hosting and Git-based version control, describing itself...

1 MCP-Server · 34 Skills

Gondola

Verified

Gondola operates an AI-powered travel booking platform designed to help users earn more loyalty points while also saving...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Hamid Vakilzadeh

Verified

According to the provider, Hamid Vakilzadeh publishes the AIRA Semantic Scholar MCP server for academic literature resea...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Hugging Face

Hugging Face operates a central platform for developing and sharing machine learning models and is considered one of the...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Jina AI

Verified

Jina AI builds building blocks for search and retrieval applications: Reader converts any URL into LLM-friendly markdown...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

KPI Depot

KPI Depot provides business-metric definitions, calculation guidance and benchmark data. Metrics describe measurable asp...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Keenable

Verified

Keenable operates an independent web search infrastructure built specifically for AI systems rather than human users. Un...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Kord Agencies

Verified

Kord Agencies builds MCP servers that act as "pre-action gates" for AI agents: they intervene at critical decision point...

2 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Koumoul

Koumoul provides solutions for publishing, sharing and visualizing data. The Data Fair project offers a documented MCP i...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Mapbox

Verified

Mapbox is a provider of mapping, navigation, and location services for developers. The platform offers map rendering, ge...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Model Context Protocol

Verified

The Model Context Protocol is an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. Anthropic introduced...

2 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Nimistu MTÜ

Verified

Nimistu MTÜ operates the Estonian Public Business Register (Eesti ettevõtete avalik register), which aggregates company...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

OOBE Protocol

Verified

According to the provider, OOBE Protocol operates Synapse Agent Protocol and SAP MCP for Solana-based agent and payment...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

OpenAI

Verified

OpenAI develops large AI models and the products built on top of them — the company became widely known primarily throug...

0 MCP-Server · 34 Skills

Perplexity AI, Inc.

Verified

Perplexity AI, Inc. was founded in August 2022 and is headquartered in San Francisco. Co-founder and CEO Aravind Sriniva...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Pick an Agency

Pick an Agency operates a marketing-agency directory. Its developer documentation describes public interfaces for search...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Qdrant

Verified

Qdrant develops and operates Qdrant, an open-source vector database built entirely in Rust for similarity and semantic s...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

SailQuery

Verified

SailQuery is a mobile app for cruise enthusiasts that captures, organizes, and compares offers from Royal Caribbean's Cl...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Sidney Bissoli

Verified

According to the provider, Sidney Bissoli publishes Medical Terminologies MCP as an independent remote service and an MI...

3 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Skyler Bissell

Verified

According to the provider, Skyler Bissell operates cityparity, a website and remote MCP service for comparing cost of li...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

SocialCrawl

Verified

SocialCrawl offers a unified API for pulling social media data across 67 platforms, instead of requiring a separate inte...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

SparkForge

Verified

According to the provider, SparkForge is a service for agent utility APIs and an MCP server. Agentic here means these AP...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Tavily

Verified

Tavily operates a web access API built specifically for AI agents and language models, and publishes the official Tavily...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

The Agent Times

Verified

The Agent Times operates a news platform dedicated entirely to the AI agent economy — covering platforms, infrastructure...

2 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

cyanheads

Verified

According to the provider profile, cyanheads develops this standalone MCP server and publishes the NIST NVD product sour...

5 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

davila7

Verified

davila7 publishes Claude Code components and skills in the claude-code-templates repository.

0 MCP-Server · 4 Skills

lahend

Verified

lahend is a free, ad-free search portal for Estonian court decisions. The website indexes the fully published case law f...

1 MCP-Server · 0 Skills

Research guides

Guides and background on this topic.

Set up Mapbox MCP Server

Set up the Mapbox MCP Server: hosted endpoint or local token, a first test, and sensible limits.

30.09.2026

Setting up the Agent News MCP Server

The Agent Times' free, no-auth MCP server delivers verified, sourced news with confidence scores about the AI agent and MCP industry.

18.09.2026

Set up Bright Data MCP Server safely

Configure the official Bright Data MCP Server as a remote endpoint or local process: store the API token securely, activate tool groups deliberately, and understand scraping boundaries and prompt-injection risks.

18.09.2026

Set up Exa MCP Server

Connect the official hosted Exa MCP safely, choose access deliberately, and validate web sources independently.

18.09.2026

Set up Qdrant MCP Server

Set up Qdrant semantic search through MCP, limit collection permissions, and control writes.

18.09.2026

Set up Apify MCP Server safely

Configure the official Apify Remote MCP with OAuth or local stdio using minimal permissions and clear scraping boundaries.

18.09.2026

Set up Perplexity MCP Server

Connect the official Perplexity Remote MCP safely with an API key and critically validate research output.

18.09.2026

Set up DataHub MCP Server

Make DataHub metadata available safely in an MCP client using OAuth or a minimally privileged token.

18.09.2026

Set up and use Cookbook Audit safely

How Anthropic's official Cookbook Audit skill automatically checks and reviews Jupyter notebooks against a fixed scoring rubric.

09.09.2026

Use Source Management safely

Guide to transparent enterprise search: identify sources, set clear priorities, explain rate limits, and limit risky data access.

09.09.2026

Research Microsoft Docs safely and traceably

GitHub's skill routes queries about Azure, .NET, VS Code, and GitHub to the correct official Microsoft documentation source.

09.09.2026

Use OpenAI Knowledge with source discipline

How the OpenAI Knowledge skill makes AI coding agents base answers on current official docs instead of guessing outdated facts.

09.09.2026

Using User Research Synthesis safely

A practical guide to Anthropic’s official skill for synthesizing user research.

09.09.2026

Using Knowledge Synthesis safely

A practical guide to the official Anthropic skill for source-aware synthesis in enterprise search.

09.09.2026

Setting up and using Search Strategy safely

A practical guide to the official Anthropic skill for structured search across multiple enterprise sources.

09.09.2026

Setting up Brave Search MCP Server: Web search and research for AI agents

Brave's official MCP server brings web, news, image, video, and LLM-context search safely into MCP-compatible AI agents.

09.09.2026

Set up Firecrawl MCP Server

Firecrawl MCP brings search, scraping, and web data into agents. This guide covers setup, safe use, and practical limits.

09.09.2026

Set up Tavily MCP Server

Connect the official Tavily Remote or local MCP safely and treat web content as untrusted source material.

09.09.2026

Setting up the Hugging Face MCP Server

Connect the Hugging Face MCP Server via the settings page, pick the right tools, and limit access to the functionality you actually need.

09.09.2026

Setting up the Socialcrawl MCP Server

The Socialcrawl MCP Server exposes social media and web data through one MCP interface for research, monitoring, and analysis.

09.09.2026

Installing Fetch MCP

Set up Fetch MCP with uvx, pip, or Docker and secure access to internal networks.

03.09.2026